Whiting Hill Primary School, Barnet, UK
The Drawing Office (Chesterfield) Limited core work consists of complex shaped structures in steel or glulam. Currently they have detailed projects up to 1800 tonnes.
Whiting Hill Primary School development is primarily single storey comprising of classrooms with associated administrative offices and also incorporates a swimming pool and a double height school hall.
The building is principally constructed from exposed glulam timber elements with a minimal number of steelwork elements and comprises of 150m3 of glulam and 38 tonnes of steelwork.
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Alnwick Garden Pavilion & Visitors Centre, Northumberland, UK
SH Structures Limited specialise in the design, fabrication and erection of complex steel structures, particularly those involving a high proportion of structural hollow sections.
The new pavilion within the grounds of Alnwick Gardens features a dramatic diagrid roof finished with ETFE foil cushions. The roof and supporting structure were formed with use of a combination of steel and structural timber to give the finished curved form.
Tekla Structures was used to fully model the project and assisted greatly in the development of the complex details and connections. The completed contemporary building houses a restaurant, shop and meeting rooms and compliments the surrounding landscaped gardens that it overlooks.
WSP Kortes' successfully utilised Tekla’s advanced 3D building information modelling (BIM) solution, which is an information management process, where a building of any size, material or complexity can be virtualised in detail with every nut and bolt in place. In addition to completeness at a virtual level, Tekla’s building information modelling is based on interdisciplinary collaboration and commitment as well as interoperability of related software applications, such as architectural and analysis and design software. These are the elements that can make even the most challenging project, like FMO Tapiola, a success story. Structural data only needs to be input once, after which the software effectively enables e.g. the use of custom components, clash checking and change management, and lets all project participants share all necessary information in an illustrative 3D model.
"Designing complex wood structures worked out extremely well. The 3D model was also successfully utilised to produce part, assembly and dxf drawings as well as a considerable number of reports to enhance production. I believe we were able to significantly cut down on errors by using 3D modelling and certainly improved the quality of building compared to the alternative of designing in a traditional 2D environment."
Ville Jaatinen, the design project’s project engineer.