As the tallest building in all Guangzhou, Guangzhou New TV Tower will be named today. Once the new tower officially opens, citizens can also purchase Asian Games commemorative stamps and postcards here, affix the new TV tower's postmark, and send them to family and friends. In the future, the TV tower plans to open a science museum at the top floor. With the arrival of Guangzhou Asian Games, visitors can visit these two water tanks that stabilize the tower, and through a computer simulation system, see the real-time sway data of the tower.
(The following content is from Guangzhou Daily)
Yesterday, Guangzhou Daily teamed up with Guangzhou New TV Tower to specially invite one hundred readers to experience the "World New High Tower Low Carbon High Technology Journey" in advance.
The scope of readers who climbed the tower was extensive
Among the participating citizens, there were teachers, students, doctors, lawyers, civil servants, waiters, housewives, freelancers, and retired engineers, covering a very wide range. After a brief ceremony, the readers started climbing the tower. When the sightseeing elevator ascended rapidly at a speed of 5 meters per second, the broad and magnificent scenery on both sides of the Pearl River quickly unfolded like a long scroll, eliciting continuous cheers inside the elevator. Everyone took out their "long guns and short cannons" (cameras) to take pictures competitively. After 1 minute and 20 seconds, the elevator steadily stopped at the 84th floor, which is 433.2 meters high. The readers rushed to the windows as soon as they got off the elevator, closely experiencing the beauty of Guangzhou from all angles.
Gong Guihua, a "mother holding her child" from Jinsha Zhou, and her son Liu Zhiyong were even happier. Gong Guihua pushed her son in a wheelchair around the viewing platform again and again: "Thank you to the newspaper for letting us climb the tower to enjoy the view!" Just as everyone was having fun, several orange-clad paint workers descended from above, causing the citizens to exclaim in surprise: "Spiderman!"
Looking outside, the Zhujiang New Town directly north of the TV tower, Ersha Island to the west, Hunted Bridge and South China Bridge to the east, and even further places came into view one by one. From the TV tower looking down, everything seemed like sand table models.
The suspended glass house is exciting
The suspended glass house on the viewing platform was extremely popular. "Looking down through the glass floor, it feels like being in the air, it's so exciting!" Miss Li, who rushed in first, said she was scared while asking her friend to take photos for her. The tour guide told everyone: "These are all tempered glasses, absolutely safe, Guangzhou New TV Tower ticket reservation, and in the future, telescopes and other equipment will be installed inside the viewing platform for everyone to look far away."
It is understood that once the new TV tower officially opens, citizens can also purchase Asian Games commemorative stamps and postcards here, affix the new TV tower's postmark, and send them to family and friends.
Revealing the high technology of the new TV tower
Highlight 1 High-speed elevators Only 80 seconds to the 84th floor
According to the introduction, the new TV tower is equipped with 6 high-speed elevators, all of which have the world's fastest lifting speeds and are currently the elevators with the highest single lifting height in the world. Two of them are sightseeing elevators with a lifting speed of 5 meters/second, two passenger elevators with a lifting speed of 6 meters/second, and two fire elevators that can lift 10 meters per second. Sightseeing elevators and passenger elevators can accommodate 48 passengers each time. Vice President Huang Jiatai of Guangzhou Urban Investment Group said that the six high-speed elevators can transport 1,400 people per hour. "There is no problem receiving 20,000 people per day."
Highlight 2 A thousand-ton water tank Vibration reduction and fire extinguishing
The TV tower is tall and slim, belonging to the "wind-sensitive" structure in engineering. The new TV tower globally innovates the active-passive hybrid control system for vibration reduction, using two fire water tanks with a total weight of 1,200 tons installed on floors 85 and 86 as tuned masses. When the tower sways, the water tank can slide in the opposite direction through sensors, reducing the swaying amplitude of the tower, decreasing the swaying displacement by 40%.
In normal winds, the main tower uses the passive tuning system to reduce shaking or vibrations; in rare strong winds, the passive tuning system works together with the active tuning system to ensure optimal vibration reduction. Guangzhou New TV Tower can withstand an earthquake of magnitude 8 and a typhoon that occurs once every hundred years. Moreover, the mesh leak-proof cavity design of the TV tower can greatly reduce the weight and wind load of the tower body, with a design service life exceeding 100 years.
In the future, the TV tower also plans to open a science museum at the top floor, where tourists can visit these two stabilizing water tanks of the TV tower and see the real-time swaying data of the tower body through a computer simulation system. For fire protection considerations, once a fire occurs, the water in the water tank can also be used to extinguish the fire.
Highlight 3 280 sensors Monitoring 24 hours a day
Guangzhou New TV Tower has installed a structural health monitoring system, as if a person had a 24-hour dynamic ECG scanner attached to their body. 280 sensors and devices monitor the environmental parameters (temperature, humidity, rainfall, etc.), loads (wind and earthquakes), and responses (stress, horizontal displacement, acceleration, inclination, settlement, corrosion, etc.) of the TV tower in real time.
Highlight 4 Photovoltaic curtain wall generating 12,660 kWh annually
Semi-transparent amorphous silicon BIPV photovoltaic battery components are installed in the E functional section (438.4 meters to 448.8 meters) of the new TV tower, with an expected annual power generation of 12,660 kWh.
Highlight 5 Wind turbines saving 41,000 kWh annually
Two propeller-type wind turbines are installed on the roof of the C functional section (168 meters) of the new TV tower, with each turbine having an installed capacity of 3~5Kw, saving 41,000 kWh annually.
Highlight 6 Rainwater recycling system irrigating green spaces
The new TV tower adopts a rainwater recycling system, with a rainwater collection area of 9,300 square meters and an annual collection of tens of thousands of tons of rainwater, which can be used to irrigate green spaces and clean squares.
What to do at the TV Tower
E Section
376 meters~450 meters
Broadcasting and television transmission room
Rotating restaurant Viewing hall
At the 454-meter benchmark level, the world's highest tower-top viewing platform is set up. On the top of the 450-meter steel structure outer frame cylinder surrounding the platform, there is an observation Ferris wheel that can carry 96 passengers at a time. It will be put into use in two months. There is also a rapid descent chair installed on the tower-top antenna mast.
D Section
334.4 meters~355.2 meters
Tea room Bar Coffee shop
An aerial cloud ladder corridor extends into the air, with transparent flooring, challenging the psychological limits of tourists.
C Section
147.2 meters~168 meters
Tourist attraction
Leisure area
Bungee jumping activities can be carried out.
B Section
84.8 meters~116 meters
Special effects movie and high-tech amusement area
Can appreciate 4D movies.
A Section
Below 32.8 meters
Conference Exhibition
Multi-function hall
Food Shopping