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Foreword
Dear Reader,
It’s a real pleasure to present this year’s User Contest Book 2015, aptly named “The Art of Structural Design”.
This impressive ninth edition illustrates dozens of inspiring projects of structural and civil engineering and the
designers behind them. This year’s competition transcends all previous editions with no less than 134 remarkable
projects that are spread over four different continents. It is also remarkable how widespread the application of
BIM workflows has now become!
Our international jury of renowned experts and academics was amazed with how our users contribute to the
global engineering community reflecting the very ‘art of structural design’. The panel was also excited to see what
great engineers can achieve with SCIA and Allplan’s technology and software tools. Four winners were selected
from all contest categories and the favourite “BIM” project received the much desired “Prize of the Jury”.
A close personal relationship with our customers is a central priority for us. Feedback from our users inspires us
to improve our services and steers many new software developments. In this contest as well, our users got a
voice and for the first time in this contest’s history we introduced the new “Prize of the Public” award.
In name of the SCIA and Allplan teams, I sincerely congratulate the winners of this contest and would like to
express my appreciation to all participants for having shared their know-how with us.
Enjoy this book!
Patrik Heider
Spokesman of the Executive Board
CFOO Nemetschek Group
