146 Category 4: Special Projects 4 “Tongkonan” restaurant for Chester Zoo Islands - Chester, United Kingdom SE AECOM Contact Alan Carter Address 1 New York Street M1 4HD Manchester, United Kingdom Website www.aecom.com 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.
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