BIM software company Tekla just announced the winners of its North America BIM Awards, honoring North American companies it believes has done extraordinary things with its software. The company grants awards in the domains of precast concrete, multi-material design, smaller projects, steel, cast-in-place concrete and innovative structural design.
Read on for an overview of the winners, and check out Tekla’s website if you’re also interested in seeing the runners-up.
Precast Winner: Statue of Liberty Museum (by High Concrete Group)
A digital rendering of the Statue of Liberty Museum, not yet completed. (Image courtesy of Statue of Liberty Museum.)
The museum, which is being constructed on Liberty Island, is meant to teach visitors more about the Statue of Liberty than they would learn from just looking at it. When its completed, the museum will feature precast concrete panels around the building’s outside walls, with glass sections that face the statue to give visitors a view of her from inside of the museum. For the concrete walls, High Concrete made large insulated precast concrete panels, with a vertical ribbing pattern that makes it appear as though the panels rise up out of the rocks surrounding the museum. The firm modeled them in Tekla Structures to a Level of Detail (LOD) 400.
The structure is set to be completed in 2019.
Multi-material Winner: University of Wisconsin’s Music Performance Building (by JMT Consultants)
A digital rendering…