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Organization
Foster and Partners

Market
Building

Location
Carmarthenshire, Wales

Project Objectives

  • Rely on advanced modeling technology to generate complex geometry.
  • Create a project model to serve as geometry database for all consultants, incorporating and coordinating all changes throughout the project.
  • Use the single model to generate and issue primary construction documents, including 2D construction documents.

Fast Facts

  • The Great Greenhouse is the largest single-span greenhouse in the world. Its domed roof measures 99 x 55 meters.
  • MicroStation allowed the team to generate and refine the complex geometrical shapes needed for the greenhouse design and construction.
  • All relevant geometrical data resided in a MicroStation 3D model.

Bentley Products Used

  • MicroStation

The Great Glasshouse in the National Botanic Garden of Wales, now in full operation, reinvents the glasshouse for the 21st century.The design and engineering is a cooperative effort of longtime MicroStation users Foster and Partners of London and Cirencester, UK, structural engineering firm Anthony Hunt Associates.

MicroStation was used from the early planning stages, allowing the team to generate and refine the complex geometry of the Glasshouse. All geometrical data relevant for the design and the construction of the building resided in a MicroStation 3D model.
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