Analysis of floating house platform stability using polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe material

¹ Thesis student of Civil Engineering, Sultan Agung Islamic University, Jl. Raya Kaligawe Km. 4 Semarang, Indonesia
² Lecturer of Civil Engineering, Sultan Agung Islamic University, Jl. Raya Kaligawe Km. 4 Semarang, Indonesia
³ Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, G.J. de Jonghweg 4-6, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

^* Corresponding author: henni@unissula.ac.id

Abstract

The high demand for land to be built on, makes the price of land more expensive. Various efforts were made to get land to build houses on, one of them was by way of coastal reclamation. The pond area initially functioned as a water catchment area, but later became new land through the reclamation process. This will have adverse impacts on the environment such as flooding due to lack of water storage. To overcome the problem of building in the coastal area without reclaiming, is using floating house. A floating house is a building structure that floats on the water surface by leaning to drowned area weight as the weight parameter which the structure could handle. This research is done to analyze the material platform. PVC pipe is used with floating force (Fa) parameter and cost plan analysis. The structure weight analysis total result is 555,887.5 Newton. The floating force of structure platform is 648.792 Newton. The connection system is a bolt connection system that us 3 cm in diameter with an anchor of length 22 cm, and a total of 4 bolts on each connection. Cost plan analysis using PVC pipe costs IDR 379.500.000,00.