Tekla Global BIM Awards 2014 winners
Total BIM category winner:
OP-Pohjola headquarters, Finland
The winning Total BIM project, the new headquarters of the financial services group OP-Pohjola in Helsinki, Finland, is a multimaterial building with a complex, sloped precast concrete and glass facade. A collaborative group of companies led by Sweco modeled the building in several locations, while designers and contractors followed design progress with the model’s design statuses. Several project parties used models for clash checking, hole reservations and visualizations, and chose object-based quantity take off and scheduling plus coordination with BIM.
Engineering category winner:
Multifunctional Concert Hall in Torun, Poland
The best among the Structural Engineering projects was the multifunctional Torun Concert Hall in Poland by Fort Polska. The geometrically very complex building consists of five modules, of which two can be joined to create a larger space for all kinds of events. The hall has inclined load-bearing concrete walls below partially movable ceilings made of hundreds of polymorph faces angled together. Without BIM, mapping this architectural thought would not have been possible.
Cast in place category winner:
River Vantaanjoki Bridge, Finland
The River Vantaanjoki Bridge in Finland by Siltanylund Oy and Destia Oy was chosen as the best Cast in Place Concrete project. The project included design and construction of a new road, bridge structures crossing the river Vantaanjoki, pile slabs, underpass and an associated trough. In addition to cast in place structures and reinforcement, the project parties modeled the roads and earthworks and utilized BIM in checking and approval process and on site.
Steel category winner:
Singapore Sports Hub - National Stadium Roof, Singapore
The competition jury selected the partially retractable roof of the Singapore Sport Hub by Arup the winner of the Steel category. A span of 310 meters makes it the largest free-spanning dome structure in the world. Collaborative design between the architectural vision, venue designers and the structural engineering team using 3D modeling techniques resulted in a highly buildable roof that is extremely efficient, lightweight and sophisticated.
Precast category winner:
Parking garage below railway station, Belgium
The winning project in the Precast category was the Mons railway station in Belgium, an unexpectedly beautiful structure by Hurks delphi engineering. Architect Santiago Calatrava created complex frame and wall element shapes that Hurks cast flawlessly as they communicated the fabrication information to mould-builders and rebar workers directly from Tekla software.
