Installations
The city of San Miguel de Tucumán has maintained an important pace of construction in recent years, but it was briefly interrupted during the pandemic. Approximately 10 years ago, a survey carried out by the newspaper La Gaceta found that in San Miguel de Tucumán, the capital city of the province, there were 1,000 buildings with more than seven floors.
Architect Alberto Literat, a veteran professional and builder in the province, estimates that this number must have doubled. “If we consider an average of 2.5 elevators per building, 2,000 x 2.5 would give us approximately 5,000 elevators.”
CONSTRUCTION IN TUCUMÁN
“Construction only stopped during the 2020 quarantine due to Covid,” explains Architect Literat. But the CECOPRIT, Chamber of Private Construction Workers of Tucumán, to which I belong, made “superhuman” efforts to convince the authorities to allow the continuation of work on the construction sites, with the commitment to implement costly “safety protocols.” Several months later, that permission was obtained.”
A lot of construction is carried out done in the province, including apartment buildings, new houses in country houses, extensions of sanatoriums, etc. The resistance of the ground, which in Tucumán is clayey, allows for the construction of up to eight floors with concrete bases and continuous footings; and up to 12 floors with foundation slabs. More than 12 floors require pressure cement injections under slabs, with pumps driven through holes left in the concrete of the slabs. There is another option, using pilots: digging wells with a drill, introducing a reinforcement, and concrete. The tallest buildings in Tucumán are, in the late time, up to 24 floors, adds Architect Literat.
TORRE BOULEVARD LAVALLE
The Literat Arquitectura de Avanzada Studio, present in the construction market of Tucumán since 1981, has a vast record of accomplishment in projects of all kinds, both in turnkey construction and work commissioned by third parties. A large number of high-rise buildings and houses, bank branches, headquarters of social works, sanatoriums, schools, and offices bear the signature of this studio and many of the most famous companies in Argentina are part of the client portfolio that can be found by entering www.literat.com.ar
Ascensores Ibel provided the elevators for one of its works, the Torre Boulevard Lavalle, which we invite you to visit. This building was inaugurated in 2018 and is located at Lavalle 951, in the Barrio Sur of San Miguel de Tucumán, which has a commercial area, hospitals, sanatoriums, schools, universities and government and municipal entities within a radius of four blocks.
The building has a height of 18 floors. It is a “semi-tower”, supported by its eastern dividing wall and open to the west with views of the San Javier and Aconquija mountain ranges. The construction system is traditional, of very good quality and its apartments are two, three, and four rooms, and includes studios. It has garages in two basements and its amenities include a swimming pool, barbecue area in the back patio, and laundry on the terrace.
The Literat studio carried out the real estate development through an exchange of land of 9 m x 54 m for several apartments for the family that gave it up, which was formalized through a Trust agreement. The Literat studio was also responsible for the Project, the Technical Management of the Works and the Marketing of the apartments and garages; a team of professionals assisted with the building operation managing.
ELEVATORS
Technical Specifications
Two Elevators in Duplex Battery, Sicor Machines
Load 450 Kg
Speed 90 m
Duplex Descending Maneuver
Services:
Independent
Firefighters Phase I
Load Weigher
Call registration limitation by Software in the cabin
Voice synthesizer
Cabins Stainless steel AISI 441
Automatic Doors 800 mm Clear Span
Finish Stainless steel AISI 441
Progressive Parachute System
Ibel Elevators has already installed more than twenty elevators in Tucumán for more than a dozen clients. On this occasion, two Ibel units have been installed with automatic doors in cabins and floors. One of them has 18 stops because it stops on a mezzanine with two apartments, and the other elevator has 17 stops. Both go from the second basement (garage) to the terrace level where the laundry, boiler room, two apartments, solarium, and access to the staircase leading to the machine room are located. They have upper motors in the machine room, with traction machines by steel cables and low run in the basement.
“My experience with Ibel was the first in this building and we were satisfied,” explains Architect Alberto Literat. “When I built previous residential buildings I did not know this company, and for budgetary reasons, we had hired companies from Tucumán that assemble elevators with components purchased in Buenos Aires. In the Bank Boston branch (1999) and in the SADOP, OSDOP building (2010), built by me, the clients bought elevators from a Japanese brand. To equip the Boulevard Lavalle building, the Administration held a price and quality competition between local “assembly” companies and Ibel from Buenos Aires. Ibel’s proposal turned out to be the most suitable.”
