Wednesday 15/10/2025, 12:00
Hall A
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The Hilton Hotel in Athens was designed in the late 1950s by a team of Greek and international architects and engineers, and its construction was completed in 1963. At the time of its completion, it represented an unprecedented project in terms of both scale and complexity, while its operation transformed the entire district of Ilissia. The complex consists of 11 building units covering an area of 16,000 m², with a total floor area exceeding 70,000 m². The central building, standing at 65 meters, remains the 8th tallest building in Athens.
The lecture focuses on the seismic strengthening structural design of the central building. A distinctive feature of the building’s vertical configuration is the variation in its structural system, which is frame-based in the lower floors and shear wall–based in the upper levels. The investigative works carried out will be presented in detail, with particular emphasis on the configuration of the foundation, the properties of the materials, and the reinforcement detailing of the structural elements.
Subsequently, the strengthening interventions and details regarding the methodology of dynamic analysis and design are described. Finally, the process of simulating the entire project within a BIM environment is presented, along with photographic documentation of the implemented strengthening works.
Professor Euripidis Mistakidis
Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly