SECO is assigned in collaboration with BESIX to external checking of the execution design of the new Bank of Africa Tower also called "Mohammed VI tower". This Tower will have a final area of 80.000 m² for a height of 250 m and will an independent superstructure of the podium.

SECO will once again have the opportunity to put its competences at disposal by taking up the following challenges:

• Deferred deformation of the concrete core of the tower with respect to the steel envelope (shrinkage)

• Monolithic behavior of the raft (junction base part - tower part)

• Influence of final characteristics on wind assumptions (interpretation of wind tunnel tests / dynamic effects)

• Influence of the horizontal deformations on the façade

• Local effects of wind (+ abrasion)

• Negative friction effects on the foundations (settlement of the silt / variation of ground water level, etc.)

• Realization of deep foundations in soils with very low geotechnical characteristics

• Effect of possible liquefaction on bearing capacity in seismic situation

• Settling of the silt layers under the foundation loads of the base piles