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“Tongkonan” restaurant for Chester Zoo Islands - Chester, United Kingdom
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AECOM
Contact
Alan Carter
Address 1 New York Street
M1 4HD Manchester, United Kingdom
Website
AECOM
is a global provider of professional, technical and management
support services to a broad range of construction and infrastructure
markets. With approximately 90,000 employees around the world, our
teams of award-winning engineers, designers, planners and project
managers ensure that AECOM is a leader in all of the key markets that
it serves, providing a blend of global reach, local knowledge, innovation
and technical excellence in delivering solutions that create, enhance and
sustain the world’s built, natural and social environments.
Owner
North of England Zoological Society
Architect
Dan Pearlman
General Contractor
Read Construction
Engineering Office
AECOM, Manchester
Construction Period 01/2013 - 06/2015
Chester Zoo
is undertaking one of the largest zoo developments in
Europe, known as “Islands”, which covers 50,000 square metres and will
recreate the habitats of six South East Asian islands. One of the most
iconic buildings, for which AECOM has provided the structural design, will
be the restaurant – a
braced steel-framed structure with a distinctive
boat-shaped saddleback timber feature roof
, typical of the traditional
“tongkonan” houses found on the island of Sulawesi.
At the conceptual design stage SCIA Engineer was used to establish a
viable structural form to suit the
complex 3D geometry
of the feature
roof, and to determine preliminary steel and timber section sizes using the
EC3 and EC5 design modules. The ability to rapidly analyze and check
the strength, stability and deformation of structural members in multiple
materials within a single global model was of considerable benefit as the
design evolved.
Later in the project, the
final analysis
of the complete structure
and
detailed design
of the steel elements were both undertaken in
SCIA Engineer. The
Engineering Report
module was used to produce
up-to-date calculations and documentation automatically as the design
progressed, whilst the new
Table Results
feature allowed member
connection forces and foundation loads to be easily extracted from the
software for use in
external calculations
.
