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Default MOSCOW- Moscow City Tower 118F, 600M


Facts and Figures
Client: STT Group
Location: Located in Moscow City, 5.5km from the Red Square
Building Type: Mixed-use, super-dense, vertical city for 25,000 people
Uses: Offices, hotel, shopping, leisure and residences with private gardens
Public spaces and observation deck
Site Area: 21,935m²
Total Gross Area: 520,800m²
General Building Data
Height to top of building: 600m
Height to top occupied floor: 500m
Width of floor plates: 21m
Typical floor to floor height: 4.25m
Number of lifts: 101
Number of car parking spaces: 3680
Number of floors above ground: 118 floors
Structural System
Composite steel and concrete ‘fan’ column superstructure
Reinforced concrete core
21m clear span steel trusses with concrete on steel deck for office floors
Steel beams with intermediate columns with concrete on steel deck for the hotel, serviced apartments and residential floors

Sustainability

Tallest naturally ventilated tower in the world
Shallow 21m floor plates to maximise daylight and natural ventilation potential
Triple glazed high performance low energy façade
High-end comfort levels throughout
Photovoltaic cells feed electricity back into city grid, equivalent to lighting office space all year
Energy recycling within the vertical city reduces heating demand by 20%
Potential for thermopiles and river water cooling
Rain water and snow harvesting reduces fresh water demand for toilets by 30%
Waste recycling
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