The building includes hipped rafters at awkward angles and tricky details; column offsets with hip rafters coming in on an angle, the roof pitch on the hipped areas being different to each other, cantilever beams coming in on an angle for gutter supports, connections in the party wall where one part of the building integrates to the other.
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Using Tekla software
The use of BIM and Tekla was beneficial in every step of the way; from the interoperability with the architects REVIT model, to the Harold Newsome engineers' Tekla Structural Designer model, and finally to the finished project on Tekla Structures and the use of IFC models.
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