Tekla Announces Global BIM Winners
Emily Pollock posted on September 24, 2018 |
The Museum of the Future, one of the winners of Tekla’s Global Building Information Modeling Awards. (Image courtesy of CNBC.)
Trimble recently announced the winners of its Tekla Global Building Information Modeling Awards. The awards, which have been going on since 1999, recognize the most impressive structures modeled with Tekla software each year. More than 140 projects were entered into the competition. The winners were selected from a list of 16 finalists by a panel of industry experts.
The Museum of the Future, designed in the United Arab Emirates by Everendai Engineering LLC, won three categories: Best BIM Project, Best Public Category Project and Winner of the Online Voting. The museum, set to open in 2019, will house exhibits, conferences and labs focused on creating tech that will drive the future. The building has a unique round shape that made construction complex. The architects used Tekla to perform clash detection.
“The Museum of the Future stretches structural engineering to its limits and showcases the creativity of what is possible using innovative modeling technology,” said Elbert O. Speidel, A.I.A. professor at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and one of the selection committee members. “Tekla was the ideal BIM program to complete the museum and have the kind of detailing and tolerances that are needed in order to…