On June 23, 2010, in Singapore, the official opening of the luxury hotel Marina Bay Sands Resort, built in the shape of a ship, took place. From the exploited roof, located at a height of about 200 meters, a unique view of the bay and the city opens up.
The roof terrace, which includes a luxurious garden, and the area around the huge pool, was installed on the adjustable supports of the Belgian company BUZON.
Marina Bay Sands was designed by architect Moshe Safdie and architecture firm Aedas-Singapore. Structural stability calculations were carried out by engineers Arup and Parsons Brinkerho.
The hotel resembles a giant boat, standing on three bases - the hotel hulls. It has 2,560 rooms, 120,000 square meters of exhibition space, a casino with 500 tables and 1,600 slot machines.
The largest and tallest roof garden in the world
Singapore is known as a city of gardens, and Sky Park, the "deck" of the Marina Bay Sands Resort, is its "gem": the largest and tallest hanging garden in the world, with 250 tree species and 650 different plant species.
With a length of 340 m, the terrace has a capacity of 4,000 people, which creates a huge observation deck with a mesmerizing view. In Sky Park there are several restaurants, discos, an observatory, but the most attractive, of course, is the 150-meter long swimming pool. It is located on the edge of the roof, which gives the impression that you can float out of the building.
Terrace decking on the operated roof is installed on 80,000 BUZON adjustable supports.
By and large, supports are plastic supports that hold the tiles or decking. However, before Claude Buzon, the founder of BUZON, no one had a clue of such a simple, functional, constructive solution for the device of an exploited roof or terrace. Claude Buzon has made the creation and improvement of adjustable feet a lifelong endeavor, and he is constantly modernizing his invention. Adjustable supports BUZON are exported to many countries around the world and are used in thousands of sites. Together with their son Laurent, they ensured that their products are now used all over the world, even in the most exotic places, such as, for example, in this hotel in Singapore.
Buzon screw bearings are made of polypropylene. They are adjustable in height from 17 to 1040 mm. The system of adjustable supports Buzon is a set of accessories aimed at a constructive solution for the device of a terrace covering. Buzon adjustable feet, created on the principle of a screw jack, are the main element when laying a terrace, arranging an exploited roof and any kind of decking.
Supports BUZON in 3 series…
Since 1987, when Claude Buzon invented adjustable supports, they have not ceased to be popular with professional builders, since they allow various design solutions for the arrangement of terraces.
In 1989 the P-series of adjustable feet with a range of 32-600 mm was improved.
The poles can withstand a weight of 800 kg and can be installed with various coatings: concrete and granite tiles, wooden flooring. In 1997, the BUZON company released adjustable supports of the DPH series into the supports, in the design of which a built-in slope corrector was integrated.
For this invention, the company received a silver medal at the Paris Innovation Exhibition. In the same year, Buzon supports began to be used in the chemical industry, oil platforms, and other large industries. Finally, in 2008, the BC series of supports were released, which allow you to lay surfaces of complex shapes.
“The BUZON leveling feet are a product that is being used now and is being modernized and will definitely be further developed,” summarizes Claude Buzon. “In the near future, we will probably release the fourth generation of supports, which will have even more design possibilities, but we will learn more about this later.”
100,000 BUZON adjustable feet were sent from Belgium to Singapore
No less than 80,000 Buzon DPH-series adjustable poles were used to build a wooden roof deck at the SkyPark, as well as 1,200 balconies in the hotel's three towers. DPH-series supports, adjustable from 17 to 1040 mm, and have an angle corrector that allows you to adjust the slope of the surface in divisions on the retaining plane in accordance with the slope (from 0 to 5%) in half a percent increments, which must be compensated, that is, from zero to five centimeters per meter. A simple and accurate way of adjustment by rotating the corrector 360 degrees clockwise or counterclockwise, guarantees quick installation and complete horizontal coverage in all directions.
“This project is truly a fantastic international recognition of our technology,” says Mr. Buson, “but, of course, we must not forget that we have been working for a long time in many countries of the world, we have partners in 38 countries, including Australia and New Zealand. … It is thanks to our partners in Singapore - such as Lim Lawrence - that the opportunity has emerged to participate in this brilliant project. Lawrence has been our representative for many years and has made sure that more than 80% of the construction market participants choose original products from BUZON instead of cheap imitations. Marina Bay Sands is another success story of our collaboration, and, in fact, we are a little bit modest, as we have installed more than 100,000 supports on this project. Between the hotel and the beach there is a 1.5 kilometer pedestrian zone, for which we used 20,000 DPH-5 adjustable poles, so the total number of poles installed is even more than 100,000,”concludes Mr. Buson.
