Recently, the core tube of CSCEC-built Shandong International Financial Center (Shandong IFC) was officially capped. As the tallest building in Shandong Province, the 428-meter-high Shandong IFC becomes a new landmark of Jinan City, which is known as the "Spring City".

The project is located at the central business district of Jinan City. With the height of 428 meters and the total construction area of 409,000 square meters, Shandong IFC is the largest and highest landmark building in the province.

In the construction, the project team forged ahead with resolve, overcame difficulties, and won plenty of "first prizes" in the construction field in Shandong Province.

To improve the construction efficiently, the project team initiates advanced and integrated design with a skyscraper building machine and develops the first "intelligent high-altitude skyscraper building machine" in Shandong Province, realizing systematic integration, standardized installation, intelligent control and digital supervision. In addition, the machine can load more than 1,000 tons of materials and its lifting force can reach 2,400 tons.

The attaching self-elevating tower crane adopted in the project has the largest hoisting weight in Shandong Province with the largest hoisting weight of 80 tons and can hoist materials up to 400 meters.

Shandong IFC totally weighs 540,000 tons, five times the weight of Bird's Nest in Beijing, and it has the largest super-thick slab in Shandong Province that supports the building to stand steadily. It only takes the construction team 56 hours to finish the 21,000 cubic meters concrete casting at one go.