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Elephant Park Zoo - Zürich, Switzerland
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Contact
Wolfram Kübler, Gregorij Meleshko
Address Drahtzugstrasse 18
8008 Zürich, Switzerland
Website
Our engineering office was founded in 1956. Located in Zürich, we are a
team of 35 employees and concentrate on a few engineering disciplines,
which allows us to provide an optimal service to our customers as a
leading company. We focus on designing, detailing and project and
construction management for highly stressed, wide spanned bearing
structures in steel, reinforced and prestressed concrete, wood and fibre
composite materials. Our activities even go underground with excavation,
slope protection and specialist foundations. We know and use the newest
methods and tools.
Owner
Zoo Zürich AG
Architect
Markus Schietsch Architekten
Construction Companies Implenia AG, Strabag AG, Landolt & Co.
Engineering Office
WaltGalmarini AG
Construction Period 2012 - 2014
More freedom for the elephants and closer views for visitors: The new
Kaeng Krachen Elephant park in Zürich Zoo is an iconic example of the
international transformation of zoo philosophy. The new home for the
8 elephants has a surface area of over 11,000 m². That’s about six times
the size of the old elephant park and provides more space for the elephant
families to live and exercise.
For outstanding planning results with maximum quality WaltGalmarini has
for years trusted the BIM-Solution Allplan Engineering. All the sections and
views are directly derived from the digital Building model.
The security of planning in the third dimension proved very useful: it
allowed possible collisions to be avoided and other planning mistakes
to be identified immediately. It was also possible to visualize complex
geometries with ease and it helped the team to better understand the
project.
WaltGalmarini AG
