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Innovation in Structural Engineering Presentations
Projects in this category demonstrate excellence in planning, modeling, analyzing, designing, documenting, detailing, or delivering one or more structures. They also illustrate how the use of technical innovation can deliver high-quality structures or improved structural project workflows. Quality of these structures may be manifested in terms of the structure’s functional performance, delivery process, or quality of service.
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Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort
Presenter: Christopher Pynn, Associate, Building Modeling Leader
Wednesday, October 20, 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Arup Singapore Pte Ltd
Singapore
Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands resort integrates a waterfront promenade with meetings and conventions facilities, events plaza, multilevel retail arcade, and two theaters. A wave-form podium roof and canopy structure encloses the buildings. Arup’s Singapore office delivered the structural design and documentation from a fully coordinated 3D model, along with steelwork portions delivered as fabrication-level models. |
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Lootah Office Towers, MotorCity
Presenter: Dr. Marwan Jabakhanji, Managing Partner
Wednesday, October 20, 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
MSN Prestressed Concrete
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The Lootah office towers are two high-end commercial towers, each with
23 floors of office space, underground parking levels, and a ground floor with landscaped gardens. MSN Prestressed Concrete was retained to design the post-tension slabs and suggest possible cost-saving modifications to the structures. The total capital cost of the project is $85 million. |
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EPC - Sulphuric Acid Plant
Presenter: Elio Vidal, Structural Leader, and Ulises Castro, Project Engineer
Wednesday, October 20, 11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Y&V Ingeniería y Construcción C.A.
Moron, Venezuela
For the $300 million sulfuric acid plant under construction in Moron, Venezuela, Y&V Ingeniería y Construcción coordinated the engineering of equipment and piping with a third party in Europe that was using PDS as the modeling software. As a satellite site, the challenge was to maximize the use of design information provided by the European company to execute the design, eliminate rework, and save time. |
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