In 2022, the event area of the breathtaking "Harzdrenalin" attraction was given an elegant canvas roof made of three membranes. This lightweight structure is intended to protect visitors from sun and rain.
This project was designed using BIM technology. During the documentation process, IFC files were used for the data exchange. The architectural building model was first created in REVIT, then exported to RFEM to apply loads and complete the full structural analysis and design.
Every summer, movie nights and other events take place on the banks of the Elbe in Dresden. The more than 55 film events and numerous concerts with national and international artists are attended by more than 200,000 guests.
Studio Rota Nodari has extensive experience in civil and industrial project development. For many years, it has designed temporary and permanent steel and aluminum structures such as tensile structures, scaffolding, platforms, and prefabricated roofs for various events throughout Italy and abroad.
The Under Canvas company provides a unique opportunity for all-inclusive adventure glamping (glamorous camping). Established in 2009, the company has grown to include multiple luxury glamping resorts and customized events all over the country.
To meet the needs of its citizens, the city of Donzère decided to build a sports hall on a large triangular island, at the foot of the historic village. The new structure, dedicated to local schools and clubs, created the opportunity for sports event practice and competitions.
Chase Center Arena is the newest addition to Mission Bay in San Francisco. The state-of-the-art sports and entertainment center features 18,000 seats. The arena will host approximately 200 events annually.
Under Canvas began in 2009 with the opening of an all-inclusive glamping adventure package. It has since grown to include eight luxury glamping resorts and a customized event offering, bringing the glamping experience to life everywhere in the country.
In late 2018, Naikoon Contracting Ltd. announced the location of their new global headquarters in Vancouver, BC, with a grand opening in spring 2019. The new office is centered around a stunning cross-laminated timber (CLT) staircase which utilizes a profound gluing technology developed by Timber Structures 3.0 (TS3). This marks the first time TS3 has been used in North America.
With an area of 110,000 ft², the North Surrey Sports and Ice Complex includes three ice rinks, event rooms, and restaurants, as well as outdoor areas.
StructureCraft, a customer of Dlubal Software, was selected as the structural engineer and builder of the roof structure for this exciting local project in Surrey, Canada, after proposing a turnkey, value-engineered solution in late 2017.
In the Chinese province of Qinghai, near the city of Haixi, a complex of 23 multi-energy plants is being built, combining different technologies to generate energy from renewable resources. The complex comprises a 618.4-foot-high tower of the 50 MW solar power plant; the support structure is expected to be completed in mid-2019.
The solar power plant uses modern CSP (Concentrated Solar Power) technology, which enables the storage of thermal solar energy, thus ensuring continuous power generation even at night.
Within a short period of time, a modern aluminum structure with sophisticated building services was constructed for the company Hydro Aluminium in Grevenbroich.
The construction project on the premises near Düsseldorf covers approximately a length of 722 ft and a width of 394 ft. It includes various connecting bridges to the existing premises, a three-aisle production hall with outbuildings, and a 328-foot-long and 99-foot-high high-rack warehouse, which was constructed in slipform paving technology.
SWE-Eurodrive GmbH & Co. KG, a German family-owned company operating in the area of drive technology, is expanding its plant at Graben-Neudorf until 2019. The existing plant, with a size of 1,184,030 ft², will be almost doubled. The main components of the extension are a factory building, a combined pedestrian and media bridge, and a road bridge.
At the beginning of December 2016, a giant wooden airship “suspended” above the Center for Contemporary Art in Prague, Czech Republic, opened to the public.
The unique timber and steel airship structure was named “Gulliver” and, just like the early zeppelins, it represents both the eternal human desire to fly, and a certain utopian ideal. Gulliver will serve as space for literary events related to the themes of DOX’s exhibitions. These exhibitions are characterized by critical reflection on the situation of our contemporary world.
Cavezzo was one of the towns in the region of Emilia-Romagna damaged by the 2012 earthquake. As a result of this event, many public and private structures were heavily damaged and became uninhabitable. The municipal gym incurred such serious damage that it was necessary to completely demolish the existing reinforced concrete structure. However, the foundation was partially left on site.
The link between businessman Wolfgang Schweidtweiler from Pforzheim (Germany) and panorama artist Yadegar Asisi made it possible for the 100-year-old gasometer, threatened with demolition, to be used in such a spectacular way.
Following a three-year construction period, a stadium with 30,000 seats was completed in Uyo, Nigeria in 2014. Major national and international events will take place in this multifunctional two-tier stadium.
The "Pneumatic Wedge Method" is a new method for the construction of double-curved concrete surfaces using pneumatic formwork. The advantage of this method is that elaborate structures for molds and scaffolding are no longer needed.
Using the "Pneumatic Wedge Method", the Vienna University of Technology has built a double-curved concrete shell as part of a research project. The deformation process and the final structural conditions have been checked with RFEM.
In 2013, a very special project was carried out in Pitigala, Sri Lanka. A bridge was designed, calculated, and built by 30 students. They are part of the university group "Engineers Without Borders Karlsruhe Institute of Technology e.V.", which realizes development projects in seven different countries.
The fourteen-story hotel directly faces Olympia World, Tyrol's largest sports and event center. The building represents one of the highest structures in the beautiful Alpine city of Innsbruck. Entering the terrace on the eleventh floor, visitors enjoy a breathtaking panorama of the Tyrolean mountains and the Bergiselschanze, a world-famous ski jumping hill which is part of the annual International Four Hills Tournament.
In May 2012, the new Saldome2 building of the Swiss company Salt Works on the Rhine AG was officially put into operation. With a span length of 120 m (394 ft) and a height of 31.6 m (104 ft), the salt storage is the biggest dome structure in Europe. It was designed and built by Häring, a Swiss company specializing in timber technology. The structural analysis was performed by Häring engineers R. Schneider and C. Zihlmann, using the Dlubal Software programs RSTAB and TIMBER Pro.
Baesweiler, a small German town near Aachen, decided to return to its citizens a burden dump that was used in the former mining industry but had been abandoned since 1975; this project was meant to be the starting point for the development of a technology park.
Radoslav Dimitrov, a civil engineering student, took advantage of RSTAB when writing his paper, for which he analyzed a stadium roof. The object of the paper was to design a stadium for soccer matches and athletic sports events, offering space for an audience of 70,000 people. The framework of the roof is a tubular steel structure with 17,791 members in total.