The tower Upper One is an emblematic intervention designed by Buro Happold Engineering. The tower will accommodate 34 floors of offices and 17 floors of hotels for a total of 35’940 m² and 11’000 m² respectively. The building is built upon a parking garage with 5 floors constructed underground.
In this context, GEOEG was involved in the schematic design of a mixed geothermal foundation for the tower. GEOEG provided its expertise to develop the energy, geotechnical, and structural design of a complex geothermal foundation comprising 51 energy barrettes, 7’000 m² of energy walls, and 1’700 m² of energy slabs, which is going to provide renewable heating and cooling to the building 24/7 through the harvesting of shallow geothermal energy from the underground.