WINNER
Arup
Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
Melbourne, Australia
Providing a missing link in Melbourne’s sporting infrastructure, this new stadium in Australia will be a world-class event and sports administration complex, featuring a sports campus, elite training center, and sports administration arena. The new stadium will accommodate 31,000 fans for soccer and rugby league and union matches.
Using GenerativeComponents, Arup created a centerline wireframe model of the structural roof, which was then used by the structural design engineers for analysis. Data exported from the GenerativeComponents model was used for optimization studies of the roof steelwork member sizes through separate geometric configurations. The final analysis model was imported into Bentley Structural for completion of the 3D structural model incorporating the final steelwork design sizes.
FINALIST
CCC
Dubai Mall Project
United Arab Emirates
Located in the heart of downtown Burj Dubai, the Dubai Mall will be one of the largest malls in the world. A veritable shopper’s paradise, it will feature 1,200 retail outlets, two anchor department stores, a 220-store gold souk, and more than 150 food and beverage outlets spread over 12.1 million square feet.
CCC’s BIM center created a Bentley solutions-based quantity surveying system to provide an accurate, efficient, and automated tool for developing monthly valuation sheets that employed two on-site BIM engineers instead of recruiting a staff of 15 traditional quantity surveying professionals. CCC used MicroStation VBA and TriForma to develop all the needed tools, utilities, and quantity surveying system, incorporating all the business rules and methods of measurement boundaries.
FINALIST
Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback and Associates
Dubai Towers
United Arab Emirates
What was once 1,200 acres of sand will become a spectacular new community of waterways, harbors, lush landscapes, and dramatic skyscrapers. The Lagoons will feature four signature towers inspired by the movement of candlelight. The goal was to create a framework for generating one tower in 3D and apply the same logic to the other three.
Being able to modify designs easily and see the repercussions throughout major building systems was critical in moving such a complex project forward. GenerativeComponents provided custom controls that generated and modified the extremely complex geometries of an iconic project, which drastically reduced the time required to visualize the effects of any modification to the form and its impact on structure, core placement, and the curtain wall system.
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