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Strescon
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Hollywood Slots Casino Parking Garage
The largest of this firm's projects in which Tekla was used was a Parking Garage for the Hollywood Slots Casino in Bangor, ME. Combined with a new hotel and casino, the 1500 car garage involved almost all of our detailing and engineering staff.
Working in ‘Multi-user’ mode permitted multiple users to work in the model at the same time – on many occasions the firm had six people working on various tasks simultaneously! This project was completed on time and under budget.
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High Concrete
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Willow Valley Addition to the Glenridge Parking Lot
The Willow Valley Addition parking garage is a 150 piece precast parking structure for a retirement community in southern Lancaster County Pennsylvania. In modeling the structure the firm utilized a library of hardware and connections to efficiently construct and connect the model. Everything from hardware to mockups were modeled. Being a small job, with a continuous ramp around the garage, there was little repeatability. They were able to effectively model the structure, produce drawings, make changes, and issue revisions when required.
The firm used Tekla Structures to model the complete project. They created hardware, erection, piece and reinforcement drawings all within the model, successfully and in a timely fashion. Additionally they have produced numerous reports and have integrated reports directly into their model templates. The model represents the success of Tekla as a tool for precast modeling and detailing and the firm's success in implementing the software successfully.
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Blakeslee Prestress
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Mohegan Sun Project Horizon Parking Garage
The Mohegan Sun Project Horizon Parking Garage is a 435,848 SF, 4 structured level garage accommodating approximately 1,470 spaces. It includes 2 speed ramps, 3 stair towers and 1 elevator tower. It bridges to an existing structure and includes a removable spandrel design feature for future horizontal expansion. Many of the spandrels and wall panels have a corrugated surface and are poured with a special pigmented face mix and a standard back mix.
This project was modeled using components with large amounts of parametrics. Embed creation and location is completely controlled using binding parameters.
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Glenn Ihde
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Lipton Residence
Lipton Residence was a very unique and visually appealing residential home project. The firm modeled in many rolled main and miscellaneous steel members. Using Tekla Structures they were able to model in parabolic concrete walls the steel framed to and provided the curved deck supports. Sequencing a zoning made this an ideal job for Tekla due to the owner request instructing the natural desert landscape not to be disrupted or altered during construction. Several steel members cantilever out over the natural desert floor. This made the sequence of steel and crane location critical during erection of the steel. They were able to publish and review the model with the Contractor in order to visually aid where they could segment the zone and sequence boundaries to maintain a constant construction flow while keeping Arizona's natural beauty intact.
This project's intricacy and unique appearance make it a stand out pinnacle. It contains a wide variety of rolled members both of structural and architectural importance. Many connections required custom design attainable only with Tekla Structures.
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Action Steel Detailing
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Barrett College Spiral Stair
This model is worthy of consideration due to skilled use of Tekla Structures to model in the spiral stringers, hand-rail and guard-rail. The creation of custom profiles for treads was achieved using defined cross-sections. Drawings were created and edited in Tekla Structures, and though it proved challenging to have the Bill of Material accurately call off information, the firm was able to manipulate Tekla Structures to their success
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The Detailing Group
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K Residence
When your wife asks, “Honey, build me a glass house”, this is what you get. Even the interior walls surrounding the bathroom and kitchen are frosted glass. The house is approximately 6,100 SF roof supported by 10 columns. The architect located columns to suit the openness of the project. The Brace Frame column located near the center of the roof reside inside glass walls surrounding the kitchen area. The 18’’ pipe columns reside inside cabinetry of the restroom or the refreshment bar. The triple pipe columns reside at the corners of the glass walls, and also support the huge pivots which support 2 giant glass doors between the triple columns.
A grid was an after thought of the architect, they chose the alignment of a few columns to square the grid to. That being said, nothing else in the project is square to the grid. Additionally, note that the roof outriggers on 3 sides are all different lengths, with an ever changing slope and are not perpendicular to their support beam. Sloping planes in two directions is quite a challenge for the architect in their design software, and difficult still to communicate plane intersection issues in an RFI. The communication at the beginning of the project was typical of all projects. At some point in speaking to the architect and engineer that were struggling to understand a conflict,a Web-Ex was scheduled that allowed the architect in Sweden, and San Francisco, the Engineer in South San Francisco, and the Detailer in San Diego to all view the Tekla 3D model at the same time. The relationship with the architects and engineers was forever changed from that moment forward. The ability to model in planes and such in the 3D model was invaluable to this project. Specifically the fireplace with it's ‘onion’ shroud and buy-out flue pieces, which were all modeled into the project in order to adjust the column to make the fireplace possible. The final WebEx conference impressed the parties the most. With the fireplace, flues, and column all modeled according to the architects plans, the firm imported the architect's DWG and overlayed it. Utilizing the imported DWG, and the true 3D representation of Tekla, they made the adjustments necessary. The column bracing, elevation of the top of fireplace and the handmade, copper onion skin was revised based on the 3D model which illustrated conflicts. The architect's concern for the fireplace portion of the project is just, as this patio fireplace is a 1 million dollar add-on to the project.
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