text: OCTAGON CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING was one of the special guests at one of the most important construction events: Contractor 2014- organized in Bucharest between 10- 11 November 2014. The International Expoconference of Construction Contractors has gathered this year 74 speakers, architects and contractor, from over 20 countries, who have presented the major projects built by the companies they represented.
  Within the plenary session “Construction”, Nicole Sommer- OCTAGON’s Commercial Manager, presented two case studies: HermesBusiness Campus and Sky Tower. Nicole Sommer spoke about the main features of the two office buildings, as well as about the construction methods and technologies used by OCTAGON. The company’s commercial manager used as presentation support, two videos picturing various execution stages of the buildings.
  You can watch the presentation video, here:
  OCTAGON was general contractor for the first building of the office complex Hermes Business Campus, located on 5- 7 Dimitrie Pompeiu Blvd. in Bucharest and is currently performing the infrastructure works consisting in diaphragm walls D 800, bored piles D 1,000 and D 1,500, foundation raft, crown beam and superstructure for the second building – C. The second building will have the same area- 37,000 sqm and the same number of floors- 4 basements +8 floors +technical floor, as the first building, which has been fully leased.
  OCTAGON also built the foundation of the tallest building in Romania: Sky Tower, located in Bucharest, on 246 A Calea Floreasca. The 137 m tall building, counting 37 floors and 5 basements, visible from all the areas of Bucharest, is part of the complex Floreasca City Center, developed by the Austrian company Raiffeisen Evolution. OCTAGON built the foundation in top- down system of two reinforced concrete slabs, measuring 4,600 sqm each. The company also performed the deepest foundation in Romania: 20 m, within this project.
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