Gamuda Cove Water Theme Park

Gamuda Cove Water Theme Park, Splash Mania located within the 1530-acres township of Gamuda Cove, Selangor. Gamuda Cove is recognized as a 5-Diamond rated low carbon city by the Ministry of Environment and Water Malaysia. Gamuda Cove Water Theme Park, Splash Mania will be Asia’s largest rainforest themed water park upon completion. The project site is situated on an approximate land size of 15.20-acres. Gamuda Cove Water Theme Park, Splash Mania consist of 39 adventurous water slides along with water theme park facilities. EDP Consulting Group Sdn. Bhd.’s role within the Gamuda Cove Water Theme Park, Splash Mania consist of an intricate list of civil infrastructure, structural and geotechnical detailed design for all the civil utilities, foundations and structures. All of which covers a diverse list consisting of landing pools, wave pool, lazy river, ship tower, iconic bridge, front of house, back of house, pump rooms, ancillary building, podium carpark and other landscape/theming structures. EDP is also involved in site supervision along with providing technical solutions to the client.

Technical Description

Among the various structures located within the water theme park, the highlight of the water theme park has to be the structure of the ship tower. The ship tower stands tall at a total height of 50m from ground level inclusive of the ship mast which is 31.5m tall measured from the ship deck level. The ship tower is constructed with reinforced concrete structural frame with pile raft foundation of 600mm diameter spun piles. The ship mast was constructed with the use of 1.2m diameter circular hollow section which tapers to the tip. The several segmented circular steel sections were butt welded to form a tapered profile. VSL stay cable system is adopted in the design with 4 cables tied to the mast and anchored to the ship deck to control the deflection within the tolerance of H/180. The installation and stressing of cables were commenced after ship mast was erected. The sequence of stressing was staged with an initial 50% of stressing force for all the 4 cables and then followed by 100% in similar sequence. This is to ensure the mast deflections are within tolerance during the stressing process. Civil infrastructure utilities such as drainage, water reticulation, sewerage and roads were designed based on the local authorities’ design standards.

Project Highlights, Achievement and Recognition:

• Asia’s largest rainforest themed waterpark, 2022