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MILANO Fair
MILANO-Italy
Software used : Advance - Steel suite.
Ingenieur-Büro Emmerling GmbH
Oberhausmehring 66
84405 Dorfen
Germany
Tel: 0049 / (0)8081 / 9136
- Specialise in steel and glass structures
- Founded in 1999
- 3 seats Advance - Steel suite
- Important projects:
- Aqua Park Moscow
- Lehrter Stadtbahnhof (city train station) Berlin
- BBC London
- Tehran Tower
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The "New Milano Fair" was designed from the ground up to be the biggest fairground of the world with an exhibition space of 2 millions m². The Exhibition halls are connected by a freeform roof called VELA (Italian for sails).
Numbers
190 tree columns
500 crosses + secondary beams
2.300 A0 plans
VELA
1,3 km length
average height of 16 m
Width: 32 - 41 m
Area: 46.300 m² => 10 soccer fields
Mass: 2.000 t of steel |
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Challenges
All 190 „tree" columns are different to each other drawings must be created according to contractor requirements
Solutions
Advance - Steel suite
Automatic drawing creation and modeling of the tree columns in 3D |
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Questions to Hubert Emmerling, owner of Emmerling GmbH
Mr. Emmerling, would you give us some information about this project?
The fair consists of 10 exhibition halls which are connected through a 1,3 km long axis. The axis is roofed by a freeform latice roof construction reminiscent of the Alps. The guests get an open-air experience without being exposed to wind and rain. This impression was reached using only 190 tree columns supporting the VELA. |
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How did Advance help you to process the project?
Due to automatic modeling of tree columns, crosses and leveling points in 3D in addition to automatic drawing creation to contractor requirements we saved 1.900 man-days. This is a time saving of 60%! This was due to innovative Advance technology and great cooperation by Graitec from the start of the project to help us efficiently and productively accomplish the project.
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Why did you decide to use Advance ?
First of all Advance is an application based on AutoCAD the worldwide construction CAD standard. Furthermore Advance is a young extremely capable product that has proved itself on the market. The unique evolving project requirements on Advance were met by fast software development on the part of Graitec and we have come to realize the immense potential the solution still has in terms of headroom for future development.
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