172 Category 4: Special Projects 4 Elephant Park Zoo - Zürich, Switzerland AP Contact Wolfram Kübler, Gregorij Meleshko Address Drahtzugstrasse 18 8008 Zürich, Switzerland Website www.waltgalmarini.ch 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
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