Soft Skill

ABSTRACT
ECONOMIC ASPECT COMPARISON BETWEEN STEEL PLATE REINFORCED CONCRETE AND
REINFORCED CONCRETE TECHNIQUE IN REACTOR CONTAINMENT WALL
CONSTRUCTION. Construction costs of nuclear power plant were high due to the construction delays,
regulatory delays, redesign requirement, and difficulties in construction management. Based on US DOE
(United States Department of Energy) study in 2004, there were thirteen advanced construction
technologies which were potential to reduce the construction time of nuclear power plant. Among these
technologies was the application of steel‐plate reinforced concrete (SC) on reactor containment
construction. The conventional reinforced concrete (RC) technique were built in place and require more
time to remove formwork since the external form is temporary. Meanwhile, the SC technique offered a more
efficient way to placing concrete by using a permanent external form made of steel. The objective of this
study was to calculate construction duration and economic comparison between RC and SC technique. The
result of this study showed that SC technique could reduce the construction time by 60% and 29,7% cost
reduced compare to the RC technique.