In May 2022, the new Sky Bridge footbridge opened in the Dolní Morava area (Czech Republic); it is the longest footbridge in the world, with a length of 2,365.49 ft. The design and construction of the footbridge were carried out by TAROS NOVA a.s., and the structural analysis was performed in RFEM 5.
Allianz Arena is a soccer stadium in Munich, Germany, which hosted the opening match of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The stadium became a new landmark of the city. The translucent exterior facade of the stadium shines light in various colors and thus makes the whole arena building very special.
The "Centre Pompidou-Metz" arts and cultural center in France is a branch of the "Centre Georges Pompidou" museum of modern and contemporary arts in Paris, one of the most significant museums worldwide.
EGOIN SA was awarded a timber design project for 35 new CLT apartments in Girona, Spain. Cross-laminated timber (CLT) was selected as the building material due to its sustainability, ability to filter CO2, and architectural design freedom.
In Krakow, Poland, multi-story residential buildings are being designed with Dlubal Software. They include commercial units on the ground floor and a one‑story underground parking garage.
Removable guyed masts are used not only for telecommunications purposes, but also for collecting wind data in order to evaluate the profitability of a planned wind farm. These removable and permanent towers can reach heights of up to 492 ft and are mounted at the planned windmill height in uninhabited areas.
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.
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.
In many industrial sectors, China is the future market. This is also the case for the entertainment field, in which the German company Maurer Söhne works.
The Dragon Flight roller coaster is being built for Romon U‑Park, an urban theme park in Ningbo. It is the first X‑Train Flying Launch Coaster designed by Maurer Söhne.
The Eden Project in Cornwall, United Kingdom is a complex of two huge biome buildings consisting of several domes and outdoor gardens. Inside the biomes, there are several thousand species of plants collected from many diverse climates and environments, which serve for biological studies and exhibitions. The Rainforest Biome was built in the second phase of The Eden Project’s development. It is kept at a tropical temperature and moisture level and covers over 1,000 varieties of tropical plants.
In June 2013, one of the world's highest timber lookout structures opened on the Pyramidenkogel, a mountain in Carinthia, Austria. The tower, including the spire, is 328 ft high. It has four accessible viewing platforms, one closed and three open, offering a breathtaking view over the Alps-Adriatic region and the lakes of Carinthia.
The Ferrari World Theme Park on Yas Island, UAE, is an amusement and recreation park including a Formula 1 racing circuit, shopping mall, several luxury hotels, and two golf courses.
The gigantic freeform roof of Ferrari World is the largest spatial framework ever built.
Metalúrgica Vera S.R.L. was responsible for the design and construction of a new hangar structure for a large aircraft repair and storage, located at Paraguay’s Silvio Pettirossi International Airport.
As the geothermal energy market is continuously increasing, BAUER Maschinen GmbH, a German company working in the field of specialist foundation engineering, has developed a new deep drilling rig. Dlubal Software's German customer Ing.-Büro H.-U. Möller was in charge of the plant's structural analysis. The system is used to make borings reaching to a depth of 22,965 ft in the area of geothermal energy, oil, or gas.
With the dome of Louvre Abu Dhabi, a museum planned for the capital of the United Arab Emirates, a new architectural highlight will be completed by 2015. The structure, consisting of steel, has a diameter of 180 m (590.5 ft) and covers the new local branch of the Louvre Museum in Paris.
The Kuchlbauer tower is an architectural project built on the premises of the German brewery Kuchlbauer in Abensberg, Germany. The tower, with a height of 112.1 ft, was designed by the Austrian artist Friedrich Stowasser, better known as Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Unfortunately, he died in 2000 when the project was still in its planning stages.
The goal was to design a spiral staircase with glass steps and railings spanning 2 floors. With sophisticated anchoring details and helical stringers created from subtle rectangular hollow sections, a light and elegant staircase was formed. The interior spiral staircase is located inside the educational, training, and rehabilitation center in the city of Zlín.
Dlubal customer Maderas Besteiro is a third-generation family-owned company focusing on timber-based construction and manufacturing. The company's driving value of providing socially and environmentally sustainable houses to the local community has shown itself once again.
This multi-material tower structure includes mainly timber and steel elements. Only the foundation and attached rigid columns were constructed as reinforced concrete.
Due to new technological demands, the investor Melamin d.d. Kočevje decided to replace the old steam boiler using fossil fuel (Đuro Đakovič, No. 5356) with a new one with total power of 9.8 MW.
Since 2012, the city of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, has had a striking complex of high-rise buildings: the Baku Flame Towers. The construction consists of three towers, which have the shape of a flame with a maximum height of 623 ft. The flame shape, designed by HOK Architects, was inspired by the importance of fire for the town, as there is a high number of oil wells in the region.
The Holy Mosque in Mecca is the biggest and most important Islamic mosque in the world. An additional floor has been built in the interior around the main sanctuary of the Kaaba. The project's name is “Mataf Extension”.
An impressive roof structure was constructed over the Passion Play open-air theater in Sömmersdorf, Franconia (Germany). The self-supporting spatial steel structure includes a PVC membrane roof covering the 14,908 ft² auditorium. Only four foundations in total support the entire roof structure.
You can experience spectacular roller coaster rides on Germany's first Big Dipper Coaster (since May 2019). Since its opening, the approximately 131-foot-high and 547-yard-long coaster has been one of the main attractions in the Plohn amusement park in Vogtland, Saxony.
The new roofing system for the GULFIN Cameroun oil company's filling station in Douala is a particular structure with eccentric columns and non-symmetric cantilevered 21-foot-long beams.
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.
During the Antarctic summer months of 2010/2011 and 2011/12, a new research station was built in East Antarctica for the Indian Ministry for Earth Sciences. The design and planning came from the German offices of bof architekten and IMS Ingenieurgesellschaft in Hamburg, Germany.
The complex structural system consists of an enveloping steel structure and a total of 134 special containers integrated to transfer vertical and horizontal loads. The final structural analysis was carried out by the German engineering office of KSF in Bremerhaven.
One of the world's longest timber bridges was built in Anaklia, a climatic spa town on the eastern shore of the Black Sea. Construction was completed in the beginning of 2012. It is more than 1,640 ft long and connects the hotel and port area with a coastal area that is so far almost unused but will be developed for tourism in upcoming years.
With a height of about 137.8 ft, the lookout tower offers a unique view over the landscape of the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park, into the Saar Bow Valley and, if the visibility is clear, even as far as the Vosges Mountains. The tower is the highlight of the treetop trail with a length of 4,101 ft, which allows for walks up to 75.5 ft above the forest level.