Daewoo E&C Brings in 'Marina Bay Sands' Structural Engineer for Seongsu District 4

Landscape Design by "Grant Associates"

Daewoo Engineering & Construction is highlighting its overseas design partners ahead of the bid for Seongsu Strategic Maintenance Zone District 4. These partners are Arup, a world-renowned structural engineering firm, and Grant Associates, a landscape design company. Both firms are global enterprises headquartered in the United Kingdom.

On January 21, Daewoo Engineering & Construction stated regarding this collaboration, "It is a strategic decision to combine structural design that ensures safety and innovation in the domestic super high-rise market with sustainable landscape and spatial design."

Merdeka 118 in Malaysia, with Arup participating as the structural engineer. Daewoo Engineering & Construction.

Arup has been responsible for the structural design and engineering of global super high-rise landmarks such as Merdeka 118 in Malaysia, the second tallest building in the world at 679 meters, Shanghai Tower (632 meters), and Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. The company possesses world-class technological expertise in designing complex structural systems essential for super high-rise buildings, wind environment analysis, and performance-based seismic design.

In Seongsu District 4, a building up to 250 meters tall is planned. For this project, Arup will provide comprehensive advanced engineering technologies, including structural system designs optimized for high-rise and super high-rise buildings and ensuring structural safety against seismic and wind loads.

Gardens by the Bay participated by Grant Associates. Daewoo Engineering & Construction

Grant Associates is a global landscape design firm that designed Singapore's Gardens by the Bay and London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The company is internationally recognized for its expertise in designing public spaces and ecology-based designs in large-scale mixed-use developments and high-density urban environments, as well as for creating sustainable urban landscapes.

In Seongsu District 4, Grant Associates will establish an external space strategy that connects super high-rise architecture with the urban context of the Hangang River and Seongsu-dong. A Daewoo Engineering & Construction representative stated, "We will create a distinctive space through landscape plans integrated with the skyline and high-end landscape design that maximizes the identity of the complex."