Commercial/Institutional projects in which Tekla Structures has played a significant role and
multiple parties have collaborated using BIM to benefit project delivery. Project may be submitted by one Tekla Structures User company or multiple User companies.
Category 4 entries will be judged primarily on the extent of collaboration between project participants and innovation in the work process made possible by the use of BIM applications – and secondarily on the complexity of the model.
Category 4 entries will be judged by a panel of experts. The winner is announced Saturday August 14, 2010 at the Tekla Structures North American User Meeting 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia. Come back to this site and visit for more information on each of the projects below after the winner is announced.
Red Bull Stadium
, Technyx Canam
Red Bull Arena is a soccer-specific stadium located in Harrison, New Jersey, a suburb of Newark, that opened in March 2010. It is the home of the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer and has 25,000 seats, all covered by a semi-translucent roof that is intended to protect fans from rain.
Category 4 Winner
Sutter Medical Center- Castro Val
ley
Submitting Company: DPR Construction
Additional Companies:
Air System, Inc.; C/S Erectors, Inc; Capital Engineering Consulting; Clark Pacific; Devenney Group Ltd.; Ghafari Associates, LLC; Gregory P. Luth and Associates; Harris Salinas Rebar Inc.; J.W. McClenahan Co.; Morrow- Meadows Corporation; Royal Glass Company, Inc.; Strategic Project Solutions; Superior Air Handling; The Herrick Corporation; Tmad Tayor & Gaines; Transbay Fire Protection, Inc.; The Engineering Enterprise; Sutter Health
Sutter Medical Center Castro Valley (SMCCV) is an innovative 130 bed replacement hospital
currently under construction. Completion is scheduled for in June of 2012. The estimated maximum price set for this project is $320 Million. The seven story building is a composite steel and concrete framed structure. The structural design of this building is considerably more complex due to the new seismic requirements set forth in California's legislation. This fast track project is scheduled to be delivered 30% faster than comparable healthcare projects in California. This schedule would not be possible without the use of BIM technologies and the innovative 11-party lntegrated Project Delivery (IPD) team. This team has been working together since 2008 to build a completely coordinated and constructible model that will eventually get passed onto the owner for facilities management use.
Fort Bliss Tactical Equipment Maintenance Facility
, Garco Building Systems
The Fort Bliss project is comprised of 60 buildings outside El Paso, Texas. The project was awarded in March of 2009. Upon award, the design team began collaboration and took on five buildinqs at a time to meet milestone dates. Each building was unique, with cranes, mezzanines, and towers. The buildings are to repair and maintain military equipment and house hazardous waste. The project is for the Corps of Engineers and is scheduled to be completed in March of 2011.
The New Meadowlands Stadium
, Thornton Tomasetti
The 2.2-million-square-foot design-build stadium which boasts three concourse levels, three suite levels and an upper deck was designed only a few hundred yards northeast of the former facility. The immense 910-foot by 740-foot facility is divided by only four expansion joints separating endzones and sideline structures. The service level and playing fields is supported by concrete filled steel piles. Additional amenities include a wide pedestrian plaza, Hall of fame facilities for each team, team stores, restaurants and a multitude of game-day entertainment activities.
Aspira Apartments, Turner Construction
A spectacular high-rise apartment community near downtown Seattle, Aspira is a 40 story apartment complex totaling 326 units. With 2 levels of below grade parking and 5 levels of above grade parking encompassing 350 stalls, this project consists of more than 520,000 GSF. The project also has 3.8 million pounds of rebar, 530,000 pounds of post tension cable, and over 25,000 cy of concrete.
Central Park Tower at Interlocken, Structural Consultants, Inc.
When completed in the summer of 2010, Central Park Tower will be the tallest office building along the U.S. Highway 36 corridor, and one of the first in the next generation of multi-tenant office buildings that incorporates the best of a headquarters development throughout. Designed to enhance the tenant experience of a group of smaller high-performing companies, Central Park Tower supports employee productivity, retention and recruitment by providing amenities usually reserved for headquarters buildings dedicated to a single company user. A fitness center, a café with indoor and outdoor seating, formal and informal lobby galleries and high-end finishes set this multi-tenant building apart. Located in the heart of the area where Colorado's renewable energy industry is booming, Central Park Tower is registered for LEED Gold, Interlocke Business Park's first for a multi-tenant development.