221 Project information Short project description Nemetschek Engineering User Contest 2011 - Category 5: Special Projects Category 5: Special Projects 5 Owner Zoo Hannover GmbH Architect Dan Pearlman Erlebnisarchitektur GmbH General Contractor Dan Pearlman Erlebnisarchitektur GmbH Engineering Office grbv Ingenieure im Bauwesen GmbH & Co KG Construction Period From January 2008 to May 2010 Location Hannover, Germany In May 2010 the Hannover Zoo in Germany opened its theme world ‘Yukon Bay’, a replica of the Canadian adventure landscape. The 22.000 m² theme world, one of Europe’s largest construction projects, provides a new home for over 100 animals of 15 species. This scenery includes two big basins filled with saltwater for polar bears and sea bears. Also a stranded vessel was designed by the engineers of grbv, responsible for the structural planning. For the basins with the buildings and vessel inside, a waterproof sheet pile wall including an underwater concrete sealing blanket with grouted anchors was constructed. Yukon Bay in Zoo Hannover, Germany
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