The Year in Infrastructure 2007 - (Page 40) Building structural analysis, design and dOcumentatiOn The Elements — Livingston arup finalist The Elements is a £90 million extension to the Almondvale Shopping Center in Livingston, Scotland, consisting of six new buildings linked by a high-quality mall covered by a lightweight EFTE free form fabric roof. The biggest challenge was to produce a large amount of accurate production information on a very tight timescale so on-site work and steelwork fabrication could commence. Arup used Bentley Structural mainly for its ability to link with the Bentley’s RAM Structural System, which allowed Arup to go straight from analysis models to 3D Bentley Structural models. As the majority of the buildings had already been modeled by Arup’s London office, the design team converted these structural models into Bentley Structural models using the SNDF import option. Murrieta Mesa High School Kna consulting engineers, inc finalist Murrieta Mesa high School, a $120 million high school located on a 62-acre site in Murrieta, California, will have a capacity of approximately 2,300 students. There will be 82 classrooms in the 249,000 square-foot school, which will also include a stadium, pool complex, athletic fields, tennis courts, basketball courts, sand volleyball courts, and handball courts. The architectural requirements of the project required a broad range of materials and structural systems, and a seismic fault on the site added complexity. The use of Bentley’s suite of integrated RAM products allowed KNA to develop design documents that were completely coordinated with the calculations in an extremely aggressive time frame. The time savings were on the order of four to six weeks, and the two days of training and additional RAM more than paid for themselves on this one project. 40 ThE YEAR IN INFRASTRUCTURE 2007
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