New Steel Construction have released their Annual Review of highlights from 2017. Which provides a highly deserved showcase for the astonishing depth of UK design, fabrication and construction skills used on steel projects of all shapes and sizes.

Within the Annual Review it includes the SSDA Awards, which has just celebrated its 49^th year. Some of the projects included were worked on by STRUMIS users, so we would like to use this opportunity to showcase some of the brilliant projects that our customers have worked on.

Romford Ice Rink and Swimming Pool

Main Client: London Borough of Havering

Architect: Saunders Boston

Main Contractor: Wilmott Dixon

Structural Engineer: AKS Ward

Steelwork Contractor: Billington Structures

Steel Tonnage: 1,200t

Constructing two large column free spaces stacked on top of each other may be a challenge in itself, but if one contains a heated swimming pool and the other an ice rink, all of a sudden a whole host of unique issues concerning temperature and isolation arise.

This is precisely what Willmott Dixon is facing at Romford where, in order to fit all of the required amenities into a tight footprint, an ice rink is being built above a swimming pool at a new leisure centre, something that is said to have only been done once before in the UK.

“Due to the extensive spans we required, and because of the unique challenges of constructing an ice rink over a swimming pool, our preferred approach was to use a steel frame solution,” explains Saunders Boston Architects Director Nathan Swift.

“Steel was the obvious choice to accommodate the 25m-long span competition pool, an array of water balancing tanks, a learner pool and the ice rink’s 42m-long span,” agrees AKS Ward Engineer Sophie Onoufriou.

To read the full article visit the NSC website http://bit.ly/2CIYwSj

New Steel Construction have released their Annual Review of highlights from 2017. Which provides a highly deserved showcase for the astonishing depth of UK design, fabrication and construction skills used on steel projects of all shapes and sizes.

Within the Annual Review it includes the SSDA Awards, which has just celebrated its 49^th year. Some of the projects included were worked on by STRUMIS users, so we would like to use this opportunity to showcase some of the brilliant projects that our customers have worked on.

Oriam, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburugh

Architect: Reiach and Hall Architects

Structural Engineer: Engenuiti

Steelwork Contractor: J&D Pierce (Contracts) Ltd

Main Contractor: Bowmer & Kirkland

Client: Heriot-Watt University

The Oriam project will provide an arena for grass roots sports development through to high performance training for elite athletes.

In order to meet the project’s budget, Engenuiti worked together with the steelwork contractor to develop a simple and elegant 2D truss design for the arches, which required less prefabrication than a previous design and provided material savings for the project.

The sports hall roof again comprises steel arches on a 7m grid, with straight secondary steel members spanning between the arches and curved tertiary steel members spanning between secondary beams to provide intermediate support for the roof cladding.

Summing up, the judges say two parallel vaulted forms spring from a central spine; the larger one covers a football pitch, whilst the smaller covers a sports hall. The elegant lightweight steel trusses resulted from a collaborative effort by the designers and contractor, with the construction methodology informing the roof structure and supports from which it springs.

To read the rest of the article visit the NSC website http://bit.ly/2EUXrcR

VPE (Vatana Phaisal Engineering Co. Ltd) who are one of the largest and most respected fabrication companies in Thailand have recently purchased STRUMIS.

After careful consideration of all the systems on the market today, and trialling several systems, they have decided that STRUMIS best suits their needs.

Excited to reap the benefits and cost savings that STRUMIS will provide the company, they are keen to get the system up and running as soon as possible. They have already begun implementation and are receiving training on site.

The mission statement at VPE is – To become the primary global supplier to the strategic markets in oil and gas, petrochemical, and power generation, creating values to customers through innovation, high quality and lower cost products.

This a goal that we know STRUMIS can assist them with going forward and we are delighted to be part of their future growth.

To see how STRUMIS can benefit your company’s future visit www.strumis.com

New Steel Construction have released their Annual Review of highlights from 2017. Which provides a highly deserved showcase for the astonishing depth of UK design, fabrication and construction skills used on steel projects of all shapes and sizes.

Within the Annual Review it includes the SSDA Awards, which has just celebrated its 49^th year. Some of the projects included were worked on by STRUMIS users, so we would like to use this opportunity to showcase some of the brilliant projects that our customers have worked on.

LSQ London

Architect: Make

Structural Engineer: Waterman Structures

Steelwork Contractor: Bourne Steel

Main Contractor: Multiplex Construction Europe Ltd

Client: Linseed Assets Ltd

Formerly known as Communications House, LSQ is a 1920s building that overlooks London’s famous Leicester Square. Over the past 90 or so years it has been enlarged several times and had become inefficient in terms of maximum utilisation space.

Lead Architect Frank Filskow commented that: “The design of the building naturally leant itself to using steel for the primary structural elements. The design of the new steel structure introduced a new central core, and enabled clear, open-plan floorplates, improving office space.”

Waterman Structures Director Jody Pearce agrees and says: “One of the key aspects of a façade retention scheme is the alignment of new floors with existing window openings. We promoted the use of a steel frame as it offered the flexibility needed to suit the various interfaces that occur with the existing façade.”

The judges say the use of structural steel for the new internal structure, including cores, enabled new clear-span floorplates to be achieved, while respecting the existing listed façade.

This project showcases the role steelwork can play in the extension and re-purposing of historic buildings.

To read the rest of the article visit the NSC website http://bit.ly/2EUXrcR

Production Detailed Planning, Change Order Management and Contract Budget are features of STRUMIS that deliver clear benefits to your company.

They automate daily tasks in order to save time to help with tight deadlines while providing full traceability for all of your projects.

Below are just some of the benefits that STRUMIS can provide:

• Easily manage your company’s projects

• Get resources and finances under control

• Bring project’s critical issues to your attention (over loaded resources, resources out of service, and unutilised resources)

• Track project progression in terms of completion, time and costs

• Provide a clean way to break down your project, build schedules, allocate resources and manage budgets

STRUMIS Project Management features help every company to collate data, analyse data, and secure information for present and future uses on critical decision-making.

To see all the ways in which STRUMIS could benefit your company visit www.strumis.com

New Steel Construction have released their Annual Review of highlights from 2017. Which provides a highly deserved showcase for the astonishing depth of UK design, fabrication and construction skills used on steel projects of all shapes and sizes.

Within the Annual Review it includes the SSDA Awards, which has just celebrated its 49^th year. Some of the projects included were worked on by STRUMIS users, so we would like to use this opportunity to showcase some of the brilliant projects that our customers have worked on.

T-Pylon

Architect: Bystrup

Strucural Engineer: Bystrup

Main Contractor: Balfour Beaty Power & Transmission Distribution

Client: Nationalgrid UK

The T-Pylon was a design competition winner in 2011 and has been designed to carry 2 x 400kV, but can be modified to alternative specifications.

The T-Pylon is made from steel, which has allowed for unique geometrics. Contrary to conventional lattice tower designs, the arms of the T-pylon are slightly raised, which give the pylon a more optimistic and positive appearance.

The use of steel and the alternative design has made it possible to obtain the aesthetic and functional goal: to minimise the visual impact on the surrounding landscape, while also providing a resistant and durable solution.

In summary, the judges say the T-pylon represents a generational step change in power transmission hardware. This is a steelwork design classic.

To read the rest of the article visit the NSC website http://bit.ly/2BE34IS

Another round of useful hints and tips to help you get the most out of BIMREVIEW!

Whether you are a seasoned STRUMIS/BIMREVIEW user or you are using the BIMREVIEW trial for the first time, you will find that there is often more than one way to get the information you want from BIMREVIEW. Use the hints and tips below to help you find the most efficient way for you to work using BIMREVIEW.

Editing BOM data

When passing on the BIMREVIEW BSWX file for import into STRUMIS or using the bill of material data for another purpose, even with plenty of care taken during the detailing of the model or production of the BSWX file there can always be the odd minor issue with the data causing a headache, this can be as simple as a typing error for a grade.

In the case of importing into STRUMIS this can be countered by its own features. If you want your BSWX file and STRUMIS to match or simply don’t have the time to wait on your external detailer correcting the source model and re-export then BIMREVIEW has a few features which can help combat these issues.

The first being able to duplicate any attribute and copy its contents allowing edits to be done to correct the problem. This has the benefit preserving the original data for reference, which can be useful for providing an alternate set of phase/lots for example. The second is making the read only attributes editable, whilst this carries some risk as the attributes may not then reflect what can be seen in the model  but maybe be preferable is the bill of material is more important knowing the source model is going to be updated later.

Formulae for data checking

Leading on from the previous tip, small data mistakes are normally are difficult to identify and not immediately obvious.

One more of recently added features to BIMREVIEW is the Formula Builder which is accessible from user attribute columns in the Model Data grid.

If you have a predefined criteria of what you would consider valid in your project  using the available attribute data and a series of logical operations invalid items can be highlighted. Most common numerical and text based functions can be used like those found Microsoft Excel and the results of any formula will be put into a column in the Model Data grid. Utilising other features of the Model Data grid such as grouping and filtering being applied to those results to highlight those that are invalid is easy.

Viewpoints

Though the core function of Viewpoints is quite simple knowing how they work in the BIMREVIEW can help make them all the more useful for you.

Clash for example can create Viewpoints for specific clashes to take you straight to them so taking the same logic of combining Viewpoints with another feature they can demonstrate their power.

One of the not so obvious benefits of using Viewpoints is it preserves the visible state of all the items in the model. There is always that one connection in a model that is the centre that can be difficult to navigate to or get a decent view of, simply hide all the items you are not interested in or Isolate if it is a specific assembly. Creating a Viewpoint at this stage means that every time you return to that Viewpoint those items will be automatically hidden saving you the time and pain of going through it all over again.

Now combining this with the Measure tool and using saved dimensions you can create drawing like views for your assemblies that you can reference at any point.

Stay tuned for more from this hints and tips series for BIMReview.

If you are not using BIMREVIEW yet then you can check out what it has to offer at,

www.bim-review.com