1 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
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