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WAAGNER BIRO——INSIGHTS STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES
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WAAGNERBIROmdashmdashINSIGHT

STEEL GLASSSTRUCTURES

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mdash 04

MONUMENTAL

ARCHITECTURE

mdash 08

MORE THAN THE

SUM OF ITS PARTS

mdash 12

WHEN GEOMETRY

BREAKS DOWN

BOUNDARIES

mdash 16

FLOATING

VIRTUOSITY

FROM THELIGHTNESS OF

BEING

mdash 20

EVOLUTION

NOT REVOLUTION

mdash 22

PORTRAIT

IMPRINPublished by Waagner-Biro Sahlbau AGLeonard-Bernsein-Srasse 10 1220 Vienna AusriaConcep and Design Wien Nord Werbeagenurex asoluo public + ineracive relaionsPhoos Archive Waagner-Biro AG Arur Images (Cover)Ulrich Grill (S 7) Olivier Ouadah (S8ndash11) Edgar Leyendecker (S12gety images (S1617) Bob Hoeksra (S23) Vienna 2012

Myzeil

Frankfurt

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nearly 160 years o our exisence Te cspecializes in sophisicaed seel and glaecure and works wih parners who arhe worldrsquos bes in heir field Wheher

parners are archiecs or planners heilay he oundaions rom which archiemaserpieces rise Tese visions need orealized which is where we come in Winangible visions ino angible soluionproviding echnical innovaion Delve iascinaing world o Waagner-Biro seelconsrucion on he ollowing pages Wconfiden ha you will have already comone or more o our buildings in realiy991252

991252 Archiecure is ascinaing an expression oour innae human creaiviy A is bes a build-ing is more han jus a srucure i is he ruiiono an idea which oulives generaions and evokes

emoions W hen we encouner such a building we sand in ron o i and marve l a is effecon us Asounded a seeing somehing originalsomehing which in his orm we have neverseen beore somehing ha we did no evenknow was echnically possible We begin o dis-cuss i because ohers can no undersand why iso excies us In one way or anoher archiecuremoves us We a Waagner-Biro have worked onmany ousanding archiecural projecs in he

mdashFROM

VISIONTO INNOVATIONmdash

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

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mdashMONU

MENTALARCHITECTUREmdash

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991252When Lord Norman Foser one o leading archiecs in he world says hisa projec ldquoI is an incredible honour a gprivilege an excepional opporuniy amajor challengerdquo hen i mus be a speco archiecural projec And he renova

he Reichsag in Berlin a he end o helennium alls ino his rare caegory TGerman parliamenarianism is much m

jus a uncional wor kplace or parliameand heir saff I is a symbol o Germanmain atracion he seel and glass domroo has already drawn millions o ourlocal residens

Te dome o he Reichsag is a perec o how buildings become landmarks Torm ino saemens represening enir

ries ousanding saesmen or even indcompanies Such symbolic landmarks oulive heir creaors and heir presence

joy o many generai ons

According o Lord Foser archiecure o measurable and immeasurable aspecimmeasurable are seleced or a variey sons and assessed agains aesheic cricase o he Reichsag i was he vision oa palpable connecion beween he parians and he people Consequenly visi

look direcly ino he plenary chamber he dome hrough a shaf flooded wih o ensure ha visions become more hlecual exercises hey have o be implem

You need a consrucion parner w ho slanguage o archiecs and has he knowrealise such ideas echnically In his desecor where new challenges require orsoluions Waagner-Biro has esablishedsanding repuaion worldwide

Reichsag domeBerlin

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oday archiecural landmarks engineered by Waagner-Biro can be ound all over he wor l

Anoher in Berlin or example is Helmu Jahspecacular example o engineering creaiviyhe roo o he Sony Cener Forum on PosdSquare Te en-like canopy wih is individswahes o maerial floas above he visiors la huge umbrella I is secured o a seel ring wcables and symbolises M Fuji Japanrsquos holy main Te roo o he Sony Cener owers majcally over he skyline o he German capial jas he amous volcano dominaes is skyline

Te European Seel Design Award winning re

orm srucure which spans he inernal couro he Queen Elisabeh II Grea Cour in he Bish Museum is also among he many acclaimepresige projecs compleed by he long-sand

Ausrian company When he Briish Museumopened in 1850 i was already a sy mbol o hemigh o he Briish Empire Eigh archiecs hried heir hand on his holies o holies over hlas 150 years However he mos specacularmodificaion by Lord Norman Foser was unaken in 2000 Te covering o he inernal cou

yard previously inaccessible o he general pu

More han 3300 riangular glass panels orm ndash a ha ime ndash larges covered inernal couryin Europe I is admired by around 55 millionmuseum visiors annually One o he firs visio he new srucure was Queen Elisabeh II wperormed he official opening

Waagner-Biro also impressed is local Ausriamarke wih a sensaional projec Te Red BHangar 7 a Salzburg Airpor Generally anaircraf hangar is no a paricularly atracive sI is quadraic and pracical Bu jus like so m

oher hings ha Red Bull underakes his hais incomparable Above all i is he archiecuo Hangar 7 ha impresses From he ouside

In wha is currenly he worldrsquos alles buildinhe Burj Khalia in Dubai Waagner-Biro wasresponsible or he echnically challengingenrance pavilions

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suggess he orm o a wing Bu inside he sruc-ure he hisoric aeroplanes parked in Hangar 7

appear o be resing under a celesial dome

Archiecural landmarks are no resriced ohe radiional indusrial naions in Europe andhe USA Many emerging naions are cachingup on archiecurally presigious projecs asan expression o heir srengh and indusrialpoenial Tis is paricularly eviden in he Gulregion One archiecural monumen afer heoher is compeing o be even more specacularand more unique han he nex Waagner-Birorsquosengineering experise is in high demand here as

well For he mos amous edifice o have caused

a sir around he globe in recen years he BurjKhalia currenly he alles building in he world

a 830 m Waagner-Biro was responsible or heenrance pavilions Te archiec Adrian Smihrom he American archiecural firm SkidmoreOwings and Merrill oped no only or giganicdimensions bu was also inspired by elemens oregional culure ldquoTe Middle Eas and Dubai areheavily influenced by onion domes lance archesand idiosyncraic paterns resembling riparieflowers Spiral images are evidence o oher influ-ences Furhermore Middle Easern philosophyis embedded in iconographic mois Te origino hese mois lies in organic srucures and

boanic subsancesrdquo

Such associaions inspiraions and visiransorm a simple building ino an arc

maserpiece filling local inhabians wiand atracing masses o oreign ourisall he posiive consequences or ouriseconomy Te echnical opions or imping such projecs have improved coninover ime and will coninue o do so Budriving orce behind such maserpiecesmained consan hroughou he ages o creae monumenal archiecure991252

Red Bull H

S

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mdash MORETHAN THE

SUMOF ITS PARTSmdash

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991252 As a ouris in Paris you can hardly mhe Louvre I is a fixed iem on he agenevery visior o he meropolis on he SHowever a visi o he museum usuallya lenghy queue because probably he mmous museum in he world is normally

a he seams Bu now here is a plan InLouvre is scheduled o be no only biggalso more accessible As one o he manives he previously inaccessible ldquoCourinernal couryard was crowned wih ansive overhead ree-orm srucure undehe new Islamic Ar secion will be hou

was soon clear ha an archiecural ma was being creaed So he clien was ache quesion o who was capable o del

Cour VisconiLouvre Paris

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he finished aricle Paricularly as he road romis concepion o is opening in 2012 was a long

one (Noe sill incomplee a he magazinersquosediorial deadline in March 2012) Many hurdleshad o be cleared o reach he finish line Uli-maely a group o renowned companies uniedo ake up he challenge rom designers andplanners o he engineering and seel consruc-ion company Waagner-Biro Individualiss werediscouraged Raher a shared moto along helines o ldquoall or one and one or allrdquo was adopedo creae somehing special

eamwork is he decisive acor in a projec o

his magniude and complexiy Te successo he join venure depends on he clienarchiecs designers consulans engineers andmany more When he individual players arein harmony he whole becomes greaer hanhe sum o is pars Tis requires each pary oundersand engage in and implemen he oherpariesrsquo ideas I requires a grea deal o sensiiviyor each oherrsquos disciplines Cooperaion mus

be ighly inegraed A clear disi ncion be weenhe spheres o responsibiliy is simply no pos-sible For insance Waagner-Biro does no jus

ulfil echnical specificaions bu also conribuesis compeence during he developmen o hesrucure I is only when all he paricipaingcompanies cooperae closely ha an excepionalarchiecural monumen like he Cour Visconicanopy can be creaed

Ulimaely he main acor is he qualiy ohe parners and heir reliabiliy in providingsoluions Te cusomerrsquos high sandards mus

be refleced i n he work o all he companiesinvolved So only he bes o he bes will do

Renowned or is experise Waagner-Biro is ahighly regarded parner by he who-is-who oinernaional archiecs and engineers Teseinclude big name archiecs like AsympoeFoser and Parner Fuksas Jean Nouvel KPFMurphy Jahn SOM and ohers Te renownedengineers parnering Waagner-Biro include ArupBuro Happold Schlaich Bergermann Parner

Werner Sobek Ingenieure Fron Leonha rd Andrauml und Parne r

For he Louvre projec i was he highly ac-claimed Ialian designer Mario Bellini who

succeeded in creaing harmony beween hemodern srucure and he hisoric surround-ings he lying carpe which he seel-glasscanopy represens was an aesheic challenge

becau se he a rchie cs waned a ldquoso rdquo solu ionha did no conlic wih he exising sruc-ures Bu he challenge was also echnical be-cause he roo is consruced as a muli-layeredramework which by means o deliberaelychosen maerials mus reduce incidenal lighhis was o paricular imporance in a museum

where exhi bis mus be p roeced agains

excessive exposure o sunligh he 1800 orso individual glass elemens provided anoherchallenge bu no primarily due o heir largenumber I was more o a logisical challengeEach single elemen has unique dimensionsso each has a clearly deined locaion in heoverall srucure Consequenly each glasspanel had o be available on sie exacly whenrequired his demanded precise planningon he par o all projec parners and was agrea responsibiliy or he logisics companycharged wih he ask

Implemening such an excepional projecrequires eamwork o he highes order Teunderaking can be imagined as a huge machineI one o he many cogs regardless o is size is

jammed he whole machine grin ds o a sand-sill And ha is no an opion991252

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Te seel and glass consrucion covering heCour Visconi is reminiscen o a flying carpe

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Capital Gate Abu Dhabi ndash

No tower in the world

leans as much as this one

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991252 Cliens planners and engineers spend in-numerable hours on he meiculous planningo a new building is various uncionaliies

is echnical deails and he selecion o ap-propriae consrucion maerials hese are alldecisions ha are essenial or he subsequensuccess o he building Bu lersquos be honesFor he independen observer i is he lookha couns Firs impressions dicae whehera building will be regarded as somehing specialor jus anoher everyday srucure he keyplayer here is he archiec His vision leadshe way

oday here are pracically no limis o ha vision Where p reviously a visionar y design w asshelved as ineasible odayrsquos cuting edge ech-

nology enables o achieve he seemingly impos-sible Tis gives archiecs immense individualreedom a he design sage Consequenlymodern archiecure excels a geomericallyexcepional srucures and designs ha go ar

beyond excep ed norms Sandard erms likeldquoroo rdquo and ldquowallrdquo are becoming increasingly am-

biguous ake he Waagner-Biro buil ldquoBlobrdquo inEindhoven or example o see i is o recognizei Te name says i all Te Blobrsquos design eludes

mdash WHEN

GEOMETRY

BREAKS DOWNBOUNDARIESmdash

all atemps a caegorizaion Where dend Where does he roo sar Te smore reminiscen o an amorphous dro

ing weighlessly in space

Archiecural visions ofen carry a mess A narraive culminaing i n impressive gorms Te archiec o he Zloe arasya uurisic seel and glass shopping cenin he middle o Warsaw was inspired bgraphs o Warsawrsquos desrucion in 1945In paricular by he reeops on he sloning down o he Weichsel River wher

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

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rees were he only verical elemen in he ciyTe undulaing roo srucure represening

seven balls covered by a single cloh ress onseveral ree-like branched seel pillars Measuringapproximaely 10000 m983218 he geomericallycomplex gridshell orms a huge open space

Reconciling such a seel and glass srucure wihhe laws o physics requires cuting edge ech-nologies Te use o riangular grids has proveno be effecive as his shape gives he greaesflexibiliy or orming curves Waagner-Biro

based he seel nodesrsquo design on he echnolog yused previously or covering he Grea Cour a

he Briish Museum Te crucial skill however ishe specialised planning experise which employs3D-echnology Tis is where he engineerscome ino heir own Especially when suchexcepional geomeries are involved hey keepsigh o srucural analyses and ulimaely saeyI is only hrough his deailed work ha hearchiecural drafs someimes jus scribblings ona shee o paper are finalized or implemenaion

Saey is always he prime concern Tis shouldcome as welcome news o visiors o he Capial

Gae in Abu Dhabi According o he GuinnessBook o Records i is he ldquoWorldrsquos urhesleaning man-made owerrdquo I mocks graviy wihan awe-inspiring inclinaion o 18 degrees overis 160 meers Ta is 14 degrees more hanhe Leaning ower o Pisa Such an excepionalconsrucion projec naurally has is own arrayo challenges in erms o planning producionand consrucion Each o he owerrsquos glass panelsis shaped differenly jus as no wo corners orangles in he building are he same Te accediladeplanned and buil by Waagner-Biro consiss o

670 rhomboidal seel and glass elemens

We know ha excepional geomeries demandnohing bu he bes rom planners andengineers However he resul is well worhhe effor When a geomeric vision mees bril-lian engineers he resul has is own specificdynamic Te chances are high ha he building

wil l be nohing less han a symbol o humanachievemen991252

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991252ZLOTE TArSY AtrCTED

OVER 500000 VISITORS IN

THE FIRST WEEK991252

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

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mdash FLOATING VIRTUOSITYFROM THE

LIGHTNESSOF BEINGmdash

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991252 Seel is heavy We all know ha romence Seel is hard Ta is no secre eihseel is also exremely pliable a less obvqualiy Is pliabiliy is one o he essenin enabling seel srucures o be inricapieces o modern archiecure

Formula 1 racing car drivers can ates Tey pass underneah he gridshell sruo he Yas Marina Hoel on he new rac

in Abu Dhabi which hosed is firs Grin November 2009 Te hoelrsquos appearais disincive hanks o is ree-orm sruspanning a secion o he rack Te visihe New York archiecural firm Asympinspired by conceps like speed movemelegance and specacle Inspiraion soudirecly rom he ldquoarrdquo and ldquopoeryrdquo o mspor Te resul Te Waagner-Biro sesrucure envelopes he muli-sory ho

Te Yas Marina Hoel in Abu Dhabi ndash A specacular backdrop o Formula 1

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repilian skin Despie is 2800 onnes o seeland 5100 glass elemens i ress on only a ew

V-shaped suppors o achieve he buildingrsquosfiligree effec each o he 10700 differen rodshas o be as hin as possible No only is ap-pearance bu also he speed a which Waagner-Biro compleed his complex projec is rulyimpressive jus 18 monhs rom presening hearchiecural draf o compleion

Looking a he Yas Marina Hoel i is no sur-prising ha ree-orm srucures grew increasing-ly popular over he las decade Te possibiliiesoffered by conemporary seel-glass echnology

convince more and more cliens who wan heir building o sand ou rom he crowd

So while he Yas Marina Hoel is a highligh o Waagner-Birorsquos recen work i w as cerainly nohe only projec wih his level o complexiyTe ldquoMyZeilrdquo building ensemble in Frankur amMain shares a wow acor o similar magniude

Viewed rom he side he rumpe-shaped un-nel in he ouer accedilade elicis houghs o a blackhole in space warping ime Te buildingrsquos shellis a prime example o how flex ible a seel-glass

srucure can be

Te lighness o ree-orm srucures is par-icularly palpable in roo srucures appearingo floa hanks o heir spherical design Whileoffering proecion rom wind and weaher heuse o ransparen glass also engenders a eelingo reedom Shopping in such an amosphere ispure deligh Tis opinion was shared by hoseresponsible or Berlinrsquos Sony Cener Te impres-sive roo consrucion made o seel glass andsel-cleaning eflon covered maerial has a ligh

ransmission o 50 which creaes a riendlyshopping experience

I has been a long road rom he radiional rooorms like gable fla or pich roos o ree-ormsrucures which are only limied by archiecsrsquoimaginaions A key acor in his developmenhas been combining seel and glass We canrsquo waio see he impressive designs he uure has insore or us991252

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So

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mdashEVO LUTIONNOT

REVOLUTIONmdash

Queen Elizabeth II Great Court

British Museum London

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In developing seel and glass gridshell sruc-ures he connecing nodes presen a paricular

challenge he node design has o be developedand individually engineered according o

wheher he glass elemens have r iangula r orquadraic suraces he developmen processesand he soware used o program robos o cuhese nodes rom seel are coninually beingadaped and reined o boos eiciency a highdegree o auomaion is always involved in plan-ning and producion

he challenge in such demanding projecs isha oen no subcomponen resembles anoher

So mass producion is hen no longer an opionor eiher he nodes or he glass panels

Flexible soluions are also required when realis-ing ambiious geomeries Te glass panelsrsquoproven riangular orm guaranees precisely hisdegree o flexibiliy Neverheless a quadraic

991252 I was somehing new somehing unprece-dened in is field Te ree-orm canopy ha

has spanned he Queen Elizabeh II GreaCour a he Briish Museum since 2000 isregarded as he railblazer or his paricular ypeo consrucion Museum visiors are me byhe unamiliar specacle o a 6000 m983218 seel andglass domed roo consising o innumerableriangular elemens Tis marvel o modernarchiecure was only possible hanks o agradual echnological evoluion

A brie review Archiecure is enduring Some buildings appear o have been buil or eerniy

and lose none o heir ascinaion ndash archiecural jewels l ike he Egyp ian pyramid s he ColiseumGohic cahedrals or he Palace o VersaillesTese maserpieces sill make an impac on usoday Tey are enduring symbols o humancreaiviy Te wheels o ime used o urn moreslowly While Egypian emple archiecureevolved litle in 1000 years modern archiecureis subjec o a much greaer demand or develop-men Tis drives odayrsquos expecaions or origi-nal designs and proves ha echnical innovaionsare in greaer demand han ever beore Only

hey enable he realizaion o he cliensrsquo andarchiecsrsquo visions

So i is more abou evoluion han revoluionechnological leaps orward like hose incommunicaion echnology are o litle or noimporance Tere is a ar greaer emphasis onhe coninual developmen o exising soluions

As a long-sanding seel consrucion specialis wih many years o ex perience Waagner-Birohas accrued immense proprieary experise andknow-how enabling i o develop all manner

o ailor-made soluions Tis developmen isprojec driven I is he resul o each conracrsquosspecific challenges

Consrucion projecs ofen involve massive fig-ures Several hundred or even housands o onso seel or concree are se in place While suchfigures are ruly impressive hey only ell hal hesory I is only when our atenion is direced ohe deails ha he rue skill is exposed

Anchoring node s or he seel cable accedilhe DR Byen in Copenhagen

orm or even a combinaion o boh orsomeimes required or economic or ar

ural reasons I is in his very field ha WBiro is co-operaing wih he Vienna Uo echnology ogeher hey have beeing how such geomeries can be combiorm oher gridshell shapes Te accediladeing o he ldquoFesival Ciyrdquo in Dubai or eemployed no only riangular bu also glass elemens Te same soluion was uroo he ldquoCour Visconirdquo o he Louvre

Te DR Byen in Copenhagen a mediaplanned by Jean Nouvel was anoher e

venure Te bui lding is enveloped on aa rhomboidal gridshell Ataching he so he nodal srucure was jus one o hlenges Even more ingenious was he spdeveloped ensioning sysem o ensurehe end all he differen lenghs o seel

were subjec o he same ensi le orce991252

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991252You will find ambiious Waagner-Biro archi-ecural seel consrucions in many regions ohe world Te core markes are in Europe andhe Arab world In over 150 years he companyhas developed an ousanding repuaion cul-minaing in join venures wih highly renownedarchiecs and planners Te success o hesecooperaions is based on he ousanding qualiyo services and he developmen o individualengineering soluions or each projec991252

mdash SERVICE PORTFOLIO

Waagner-Birorsquos real srengh lies in high per or-mance in areas where ohers are already reachingheir limis

991252 Seel and glass building shells991252 Free-orm srucures and complex geomeries991252 Cable suppored srucures

eg pre-ensioned walls991252 Special soluions or challenging

aluminium accedilades

991252 Inegraed soluions involving addiionalmaerials like exile membranes

991252 Innovaive use o maerialslike load-bearing glass

991252 Soluions or complicaedramps sairs and mass

Te company also offers relevan service andmainenance opions (eg accedilade mainenancerenovaion modificaion)One secre o he success o Waagner-BiroSahlbau is is parnerships wih archiecs and

planning firms including

Architects Foser and Parners Jean NouvelSOM Murphy Jahn Asympoe Mario BelliniMassimiliano Fuksas KPF Wilkinson EyreHenning Larsen HOK Jerde ParnershipHeneghan Peng 3D Reid RMJM Hollein ecPlanning firms Arup Buro HappoldSchlaich Bergermann Parner Werner SobekIngenieure Fron Leonhard Andrauml undParner ec

mdash REFERENCES

Numerous reerences ates o Waagner-Birocompeence in seel consrucion Here is a boverview

991252 Reichsag dome BerlinGermany Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Sony Cener BerlinGermany Archiec Murphy Jahn

991252 Grea Cour Briish Museum LondonU Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Red Bull Hangar 7 SalzburgAusria Archiec Burgsaller

991252 Swiss Re ower (Dome) LondonUK Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Burj Khalia (Enrance pavilion) DubaiU Archiec Skidmore Owi ngs and Merri l

991252 Capial Gae Abu DhabiUAE Archiec RMJM Dubai

991252 Co-operaive Group (Corporaeheadquarers) MancheserUK

Archiec 3D Reid991252 Zloe arasy WarsawPoland

Archiec Te Jerde Parnership991252 Yas Island Marina Hoel Abu DhabiUA

Archiec Asympoe991252 Te Blob EindhovenNeherlands

Archiec Massimiliano Fuksas991252 Louvre ldquoCour Visconirdquo ParisFrance

Archiecs Mario Bell ini Rudy Riccioti991252 Baku Airpor erminal Azerbaijan

Archiec Arup991252 Bay Abdullah Kuwai

Archiec Marks Barfield Archiecs

mdash PORTRAIT mdash

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E

mdash AUSTRIA

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Saurn ower Leonard-Bernsein-Sraszlige 10

1220 Vienna Ausria +431288 44 0F +431288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ASERBAIDSCHAN

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Azerbaijan Branch Office

AZ1025 Baku ciy Khaayi di sric25 Sabi Orujov sree Aparmen 52 +431288 44 0F +341288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

mdash UNITED KINGDOM

Waagner Biro Ltd

Valian House 2nd Floor 4ndash10 Heneage Lane

London EC3A 5DQ Unied Kingdom +44207337 2240F +44207929 1880E inowaagnerbirocouk

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash DUBAI

Waagner Biro Stahlbau AG

Dubai Branch Office

Dubai Invesmen Park II Warehouse complexPO Box 8542 +97148855275F +97148855381

mdash POLAND

Waagner Biro Spoacutelka z oo

Al Armii Ludowej 26

00-609 Warsaw Poland +431288 44 0E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ABU DHABI

Waagner Biro Emirates Contracting L

Link Invesmen Building Plo 128 ndash Muroor (Office 102)PO Box 127687 Abu Dhabi ndash UAE +97124918818F +97124918819

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VISITWAAGNER-BIRO

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MONUMENTAL

ARCHITECTURE

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MORE THAN THE

SUM OF ITS PARTS

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WHEN GEOMETRY

BREAKS DOWN

BOUNDARIES

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FLOATING

VIRTUOSITY

FROM THELIGHTNESS OF

BEING

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EVOLUTION

NOT REVOLUTION

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PORTRAIT

IMPRINPublished by Waagner-Biro Sahlbau AGLeonard-Bernsein-Srasse 10 1220 Vienna AusriaConcep and Design Wien Nord Werbeagenurex asoluo public + ineracive relaionsPhoos Archive Waagner-Biro AG Arur Images (Cover)Ulrich Grill (S 7) Olivier Ouadah (S8ndash11) Edgar Leyendecker (S12gety images (S1617) Bob Hoeksra (S23) Vienna 2012

Myzeil

Frankfurt

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nearly 160 years o our exisence Te cspecializes in sophisicaed seel and glaecure and works wih parners who arhe worldrsquos bes in heir field Wheher

parners are archiecs or planners heilay he oundaions rom which archiemaserpieces rise Tese visions need orealized which is where we come in Winangible visions ino angible soluionproviding echnical innovaion Delve iascinaing world o Waagner-Biro seelconsrucion on he ollowing pages Wconfiden ha you will have already comone or more o our buildings in realiy991252

991252 Archiecure is ascinaing an expression oour innae human creaiviy A is bes a build-ing is more han jus a srucure i is he ruiiono an idea which oulives generaions and evokes

emoions W hen we encouner such a building we sand in ron o i and marve l a is effecon us Asounded a seeing somehing originalsomehing which in his orm we have neverseen beore somehing ha we did no evenknow was echnically possible We begin o dis-cuss i because ohers can no undersand why iso excies us In one way or anoher archiecuremoves us We a Waagner-Biro have worked onmany ousanding archiecural projecs in he

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VISIONTO INNOVATIONmdash

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991252When Lord Norman Foser one o leading archiecs in he world says hisa projec ldquoI is an incredible honour a gprivilege an excepional opporuniy amajor challengerdquo hen i mus be a speco archiecural projec And he renova

he Reichsag in Berlin a he end o helennium alls ino his rare caegory TGerman parliamenarianism is much m

jus a uncional wor kplace or parliameand heir saff I is a symbol o Germanmain atracion he seel and glass domroo has already drawn millions o ourlocal residens

Te dome o he Reichsag is a perec o how buildings become landmarks Torm ino saemens represening enir

ries ousanding saesmen or even indcompanies Such symbolic landmarks oulive heir creaors and heir presence

joy o many generai ons

According o Lord Foser archiecure o measurable and immeasurable aspecimmeasurable are seleced or a variey sons and assessed agains aesheic cricase o he Reichsag i was he vision oa palpable connecion beween he parians and he people Consequenly visi

look direcly ino he plenary chamber he dome hrough a shaf flooded wih o ensure ha visions become more hlecual exercises hey have o be implem

You need a consrucion parner w ho slanguage o archiecs and has he knowrealise such ideas echnically In his desecor where new challenges require orsoluions Waagner-Biro has esablishedsanding repuaion worldwide

Reichsag domeBerlin

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oday archiecural landmarks engineered by Waagner-Biro can be ound all over he wor l

Anoher in Berlin or example is Helmu Jahspecacular example o engineering creaiviyhe roo o he Sony Cener Forum on PosdSquare Te en-like canopy wih is individswahes o maerial floas above he visiors la huge umbrella I is secured o a seel ring wcables and symbolises M Fuji Japanrsquos holy main Te roo o he Sony Cener owers majcally over he skyline o he German capial jas he amous volcano dominaes is skyline

Te European Seel Design Award winning re

orm srucure which spans he inernal couro he Queen Elisabeh II Grea Cour in he Bish Museum is also among he many acclaimepresige projecs compleed by he long-sand

Ausrian company When he Briish Museumopened in 1850 i was already a sy mbol o hemigh o he Briish Empire Eigh archiecs hried heir hand on his holies o holies over hlas 150 years However he mos specacularmodificaion by Lord Norman Foser was unaken in 2000 Te covering o he inernal cou

yard previously inaccessible o he general pu

More han 3300 riangular glass panels orm ndash a ha ime ndash larges covered inernal couryin Europe I is admired by around 55 millionmuseum visiors annually One o he firs visio he new srucure was Queen Elisabeh II wperormed he official opening

Waagner-Biro also impressed is local Ausriamarke wih a sensaional projec Te Red BHangar 7 a Salzburg Airpor Generally anaircraf hangar is no a paricularly atracive sI is quadraic and pracical Bu jus like so m

oher hings ha Red Bull underakes his hais incomparable Above all i is he archiecuo Hangar 7 ha impresses From he ouside

In wha is currenly he worldrsquos alles buildinhe Burj Khalia in Dubai Waagner-Biro wasresponsible or he echnically challengingenrance pavilions

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suggess he orm o a wing Bu inside he sruc-ure he hisoric aeroplanes parked in Hangar 7

appear o be resing under a celesial dome

Archiecural landmarks are no resriced ohe radiional indusrial naions in Europe andhe USA Many emerging naions are cachingup on archiecurally presigious projecs asan expression o heir srengh and indusrialpoenial Tis is paricularly eviden in he Gulregion One archiecural monumen afer heoher is compeing o be even more specacularand more unique han he nex Waagner-Birorsquosengineering experise is in high demand here as

well For he mos amous edifice o have caused

a sir around he globe in recen years he BurjKhalia currenly he alles building in he world

a 830 m Waagner-Biro was responsible or heenrance pavilions Te archiec Adrian Smihrom he American archiecural firm SkidmoreOwings and Merrill oped no only or giganicdimensions bu was also inspired by elemens oregional culure ldquoTe Middle Eas and Dubai areheavily influenced by onion domes lance archesand idiosyncraic paterns resembling riparieflowers Spiral images are evidence o oher influ-ences Furhermore Middle Easern philosophyis embedded in iconographic mois Te origino hese mois lies in organic srucures and

boanic subsancesrdquo

Such associaions inspiraions and visiransorm a simple building ino an arc

maserpiece filling local inhabians wiand atracing masses o oreign ourisall he posiive consequences or ouriseconomy Te echnical opions or imping such projecs have improved coninover ime and will coninue o do so Budriving orce behind such maserpiecesmained consan hroughou he ages o creae monumenal archiecure991252

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SUMOF ITS PARTSmdash

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991252 As a ouris in Paris you can hardly mhe Louvre I is a fixed iem on he agenevery visior o he meropolis on he SHowever a visi o he museum usuallya lenghy queue because probably he mmous museum in he world is normally

a he seams Bu now here is a plan InLouvre is scheduled o be no only biggalso more accessible As one o he manives he previously inaccessible ldquoCourinernal couryard was crowned wih ansive overhead ree-orm srucure undehe new Islamic Ar secion will be hou

was soon clear ha an archiecural ma was being creaed So he clien was ache quesion o who was capable o del

Cour VisconiLouvre Paris

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he finished aricle Paricularly as he road romis concepion o is opening in 2012 was a long

one (Noe sill incomplee a he magazinersquosediorial deadline in March 2012) Many hurdleshad o be cleared o reach he finish line Uli-maely a group o renowned companies uniedo ake up he challenge rom designers andplanners o he engineering and seel consruc-ion company Waagner-Biro Individualiss werediscouraged Raher a shared moto along helines o ldquoall or one and one or allrdquo was adopedo creae somehing special

eamwork is he decisive acor in a projec o

his magniude and complexiy Te successo he join venure depends on he clienarchiecs designers consulans engineers andmany more When he individual players arein harmony he whole becomes greaer hanhe sum o is pars Tis requires each pary oundersand engage in and implemen he oherpariesrsquo ideas I requires a grea deal o sensiiviyor each oherrsquos disciplines Cooperaion mus

be ighly inegraed A clear disi ncion be weenhe spheres o responsibiliy is simply no pos-sible For insance Waagner-Biro does no jus

ulfil echnical specificaions bu also conribuesis compeence during he developmen o hesrucure I is only when all he paricipaingcompanies cooperae closely ha an excepionalarchiecural monumen like he Cour Visconicanopy can be creaed

Ulimaely he main acor is he qualiy ohe parners and heir reliabiliy in providingsoluions Te cusomerrsquos high sandards mus

be refleced i n he work o all he companiesinvolved So only he bes o he bes will do

Renowned or is experise Waagner-Biro is ahighly regarded parner by he who-is-who oinernaional archiecs and engineers Teseinclude big name archiecs like AsympoeFoser and Parner Fuksas Jean Nouvel KPFMurphy Jahn SOM and ohers Te renownedengineers parnering Waagner-Biro include ArupBuro Happold Schlaich Bergermann Parner

Werner Sobek Ingenieure Fron Leonha rd Andrauml und Parne r

For he Louvre projec i was he highly ac-claimed Ialian designer Mario Bellini who

succeeded in creaing harmony beween hemodern srucure and he hisoric surround-ings he lying carpe which he seel-glasscanopy represens was an aesheic challenge

becau se he a rchie cs waned a ldquoso rdquo solu ionha did no conlic wih he exising sruc-ures Bu he challenge was also echnical be-cause he roo is consruced as a muli-layeredramework which by means o deliberaelychosen maerials mus reduce incidenal lighhis was o paricular imporance in a museum

where exhi bis mus be p roeced agains

excessive exposure o sunligh he 1800 orso individual glass elemens provided anoherchallenge bu no primarily due o heir largenumber I was more o a logisical challengeEach single elemen has unique dimensionsso each has a clearly deined locaion in heoverall srucure Consequenly each glasspanel had o be available on sie exacly whenrequired his demanded precise planningon he par o all projec parners and was agrea responsibiliy or he logisics companycharged wih he ask

Implemening such an excepional projecrequires eamwork o he highes order Teunderaking can be imagined as a huge machineI one o he many cogs regardless o is size is

jammed he whole machine grin ds o a sand-sill And ha is no an opion991252

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Te seel and glass consrucion covering heCour Visconi is reminiscen o a flying carpe

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Capital Gate Abu Dhabi ndash

No tower in the world

leans as much as this one

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991252 Cliens planners and engineers spend in-numerable hours on he meiculous planningo a new building is various uncionaliies

is echnical deails and he selecion o ap-propriae consrucion maerials hese are alldecisions ha are essenial or he subsequensuccess o he building Bu lersquos be honesFor he independen observer i is he lookha couns Firs impressions dicae whehera building will be regarded as somehing specialor jus anoher everyday srucure he keyplayer here is he archiec His vision leadshe way

oday here are pracically no limis o ha vision Where p reviously a visionar y design w asshelved as ineasible odayrsquos cuting edge ech-

nology enables o achieve he seemingly impos-sible Tis gives archiecs immense individualreedom a he design sage Consequenlymodern archiecure excels a geomericallyexcepional srucures and designs ha go ar

beyond excep ed norms Sandard erms likeldquoroo rdquo and ldquowallrdquo are becoming increasingly am-

biguous ake he Waagner-Biro buil ldquoBlobrdquo inEindhoven or example o see i is o recognizei Te name says i all Te Blobrsquos design eludes

mdash WHEN

GEOMETRY

BREAKS DOWNBOUNDARIESmdash

all atemps a caegorizaion Where dend Where does he roo sar Te smore reminiscen o an amorphous dro

ing weighlessly in space

Archiecural visions ofen carry a mess A narraive culminaing i n impressive gorms Te archiec o he Zloe arasya uurisic seel and glass shopping cenin he middle o Warsaw was inspired bgraphs o Warsawrsquos desrucion in 1945In paricular by he reeops on he sloning down o he Weichsel River wher

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rees were he only verical elemen in he ciyTe undulaing roo srucure represening

seven balls covered by a single cloh ress onseveral ree-like branched seel pillars Measuringapproximaely 10000 m983218 he geomericallycomplex gridshell orms a huge open space

Reconciling such a seel and glass srucure wihhe laws o physics requires cuting edge ech-nologies Te use o riangular grids has proveno be effecive as his shape gives he greaesflexibiliy or orming curves Waagner-Biro

based he seel nodesrsquo design on he echnolog yused previously or covering he Grea Cour a

he Briish Museum Te crucial skill however ishe specialised planning experise which employs3D-echnology Tis is where he engineerscome ino heir own Especially when suchexcepional geomeries are involved hey keepsigh o srucural analyses and ulimaely saeyI is only hrough his deailed work ha hearchiecural drafs someimes jus scribblings ona shee o paper are finalized or implemenaion

Saey is always he prime concern Tis shouldcome as welcome news o visiors o he Capial

Gae in Abu Dhabi According o he GuinnessBook o Records i is he ldquoWorldrsquos urhesleaning man-made owerrdquo I mocks graviy wihan awe-inspiring inclinaion o 18 degrees overis 160 meers Ta is 14 degrees more hanhe Leaning ower o Pisa Such an excepionalconsrucion projec naurally has is own arrayo challenges in erms o planning producionand consrucion Each o he owerrsquos glass panelsis shaped differenly jus as no wo corners orangles in he building are he same Te accediladeplanned and buil by Waagner-Biro consiss o

670 rhomboidal seel and glass elemens

We know ha excepional geomeries demandnohing bu he bes rom planners andengineers However he resul is well worhhe effor When a geomeric vision mees bril-lian engineers he resul has is own specificdynamic Te chances are high ha he building

wil l be nohing less han a symbol o humanachievemen991252

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991252ZLOTE TArSY AtrCTED

OVER 500000 VISITORS IN

THE FIRST WEEK991252

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LIGHTNESSOF BEINGmdash

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991252 Seel is heavy We all know ha romence Seel is hard Ta is no secre eihseel is also exremely pliable a less obvqualiy Is pliabiliy is one o he essenin enabling seel srucures o be inricapieces o modern archiecure

Formula 1 racing car drivers can ates Tey pass underneah he gridshell sruo he Yas Marina Hoel on he new rac

in Abu Dhabi which hosed is firs Grin November 2009 Te hoelrsquos appearais disincive hanks o is ree-orm sruspanning a secion o he rack Te visihe New York archiecural firm Asympinspired by conceps like speed movemelegance and specacle Inspiraion soudirecly rom he ldquoarrdquo and ldquopoeryrdquo o mspor Te resul Te Waagner-Biro sesrucure envelopes he muli-sory ho

Te Yas Marina Hoel in Abu Dhabi ndash A specacular backdrop o Formula 1

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repilian skin Despie is 2800 onnes o seeland 5100 glass elemens i ress on only a ew

V-shaped suppors o achieve he buildingrsquosfiligree effec each o he 10700 differen rodshas o be as hin as possible No only is ap-pearance bu also he speed a which Waagner-Biro compleed his complex projec is rulyimpressive jus 18 monhs rom presening hearchiecural draf o compleion

Looking a he Yas Marina Hoel i is no sur-prising ha ree-orm srucures grew increasing-ly popular over he las decade Te possibiliiesoffered by conemporary seel-glass echnology

convince more and more cliens who wan heir building o sand ou rom he crowd

So while he Yas Marina Hoel is a highligh o Waagner-Birorsquos recen work i w as cerainly nohe only projec wih his level o complexiyTe ldquoMyZeilrdquo building ensemble in Frankur amMain shares a wow acor o similar magniude

Viewed rom he side he rumpe-shaped un-nel in he ouer accedilade elicis houghs o a blackhole in space warping ime Te buildingrsquos shellis a prime example o how flex ible a seel-glass

srucure can be

Te lighness o ree-orm srucures is par-icularly palpable in roo srucures appearingo floa hanks o heir spherical design Whileoffering proecion rom wind and weaher heuse o ransparen glass also engenders a eelingo reedom Shopping in such an amosphere ispure deligh Tis opinion was shared by hoseresponsible or Berlinrsquos Sony Cener Te impres-sive roo consrucion made o seel glass andsel-cleaning eflon covered maerial has a ligh

ransmission o 50 which creaes a riendlyshopping experience

I has been a long road rom he radiional rooorms like gable fla or pich roos o ree-ormsrucures which are only limied by archiecsrsquoimaginaions A key acor in his developmenhas been combining seel and glass We canrsquo waio see he impressive designs he uure has insore or us991252

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REVOLUTIONmdash

Queen Elizabeth II Great Court

British Museum London

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In developing seel and glass gridshell sruc-ures he connecing nodes presen a paricular

challenge he node design has o be developedand individually engineered according o

wheher he glass elemens have r iangula r orquadraic suraces he developmen processesand he soware used o program robos o cuhese nodes rom seel are coninually beingadaped and reined o boos eiciency a highdegree o auomaion is always involved in plan-ning and producion

he challenge in such demanding projecs isha oen no subcomponen resembles anoher

So mass producion is hen no longer an opionor eiher he nodes or he glass panels

Flexible soluions are also required when realis-ing ambiious geomeries Te glass panelsrsquoproven riangular orm guaranees precisely hisdegree o flexibiliy Neverheless a quadraic

991252 I was somehing new somehing unprece-dened in is field Te ree-orm canopy ha

has spanned he Queen Elizabeh II GreaCour a he Briish Museum since 2000 isregarded as he railblazer or his paricular ypeo consrucion Museum visiors are me byhe unamiliar specacle o a 6000 m983218 seel andglass domed roo consising o innumerableriangular elemens Tis marvel o modernarchiecure was only possible hanks o agradual echnological evoluion

A brie review Archiecure is enduring Some buildings appear o have been buil or eerniy

and lose none o heir ascinaion ndash archiecural jewels l ike he Egyp ian pyramid s he ColiseumGohic cahedrals or he Palace o VersaillesTese maserpieces sill make an impac on usoday Tey are enduring symbols o humancreaiviy Te wheels o ime used o urn moreslowly While Egypian emple archiecureevolved litle in 1000 years modern archiecureis subjec o a much greaer demand or develop-men Tis drives odayrsquos expecaions or origi-nal designs and proves ha echnical innovaionsare in greaer demand han ever beore Only

hey enable he realizaion o he cliensrsquo andarchiecsrsquo visions

So i is more abou evoluion han revoluionechnological leaps orward like hose incommunicaion echnology are o litle or noimporance Tere is a ar greaer emphasis onhe coninual developmen o exising soluions

As a long-sanding seel consrucion specialis wih many years o ex perience Waagner-Birohas accrued immense proprieary experise andknow-how enabling i o develop all manner

o ailor-made soluions Tis developmen isprojec driven I is he resul o each conracrsquosspecific challenges

Consrucion projecs ofen involve massive fig-ures Several hundred or even housands o onso seel or concree are se in place While suchfigures are ruly impressive hey only ell hal hesory I is only when our atenion is direced ohe deails ha he rue skill is exposed

Anchoring node s or he seel cable accedilhe DR Byen in Copenhagen

orm or even a combinaion o boh orsomeimes required or economic or ar

ural reasons I is in his very field ha WBiro is co-operaing wih he Vienna Uo echnology ogeher hey have beeing how such geomeries can be combiorm oher gridshell shapes Te accediladeing o he ldquoFesival Ciyrdquo in Dubai or eemployed no only riangular bu also glass elemens Te same soluion was uroo he ldquoCour Visconirdquo o he Louvre

Te DR Byen in Copenhagen a mediaplanned by Jean Nouvel was anoher e

venure Te bui lding is enveloped on aa rhomboidal gridshell Ataching he so he nodal srucure was jus one o hlenges Even more ingenious was he spdeveloped ensioning sysem o ensurehe end all he differen lenghs o seel

were subjec o he same ensi le orce991252

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991252You will find ambiious Waagner-Biro archi-ecural seel consrucions in many regions ohe world Te core markes are in Europe andhe Arab world In over 150 years he companyhas developed an ousanding repuaion cul-minaing in join venures wih highly renownedarchiecs and planners Te success o hesecooperaions is based on he ousanding qualiyo services and he developmen o individualengineering soluions or each projec991252

mdash SERVICE PORTFOLIO

Waagner-Birorsquos real srengh lies in high per or-mance in areas where ohers are already reachingheir limis

991252 Seel and glass building shells991252 Free-orm srucures and complex geomeries991252 Cable suppored srucures

eg pre-ensioned walls991252 Special soluions or challenging

aluminium accedilades

991252 Inegraed soluions involving addiionalmaerials like exile membranes

991252 Innovaive use o maerialslike load-bearing glass

991252 Soluions or complicaedramps sairs and mass

Te company also offers relevan service andmainenance opions (eg accedilade mainenancerenovaion modificaion)One secre o he success o Waagner-BiroSahlbau is is parnerships wih archiecs and

planning firms including

Architects Foser and Parners Jean NouvelSOM Murphy Jahn Asympoe Mario BelliniMassimiliano Fuksas KPF Wilkinson EyreHenning Larsen HOK Jerde ParnershipHeneghan Peng 3D Reid RMJM Hollein ecPlanning firms Arup Buro HappoldSchlaich Bergermann Parner Werner SobekIngenieure Fron Leonhard Andrauml undParner ec

mdash REFERENCES

Numerous reerences ates o Waagner-Birocompeence in seel consrucion Here is a boverview

991252 Reichsag dome BerlinGermany Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Sony Cener BerlinGermany Archiec Murphy Jahn

991252 Grea Cour Briish Museum LondonU Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Red Bull Hangar 7 SalzburgAusria Archiec Burgsaller

991252 Swiss Re ower (Dome) LondonUK Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Burj Khalia (Enrance pavilion) DubaiU Archiec Skidmore Owi ngs and Merri l

991252 Capial Gae Abu DhabiUAE Archiec RMJM Dubai

991252 Co-operaive Group (Corporaeheadquarers) MancheserUK

Archiec 3D Reid991252 Zloe arasy WarsawPoland

Archiec Te Jerde Parnership991252 Yas Island Marina Hoel Abu DhabiUA

Archiec Asympoe991252 Te Blob EindhovenNeherlands

Archiec Massimiliano Fuksas991252 Louvre ldquoCour Visconirdquo ParisFrance

Archiecs Mario Bell ini Rudy Riccioti991252 Baku Airpor erminal Azerbaijan

Archiec Arup991252 Bay Abdullah Kuwai

Archiec Marks Barfield Archiecs

mdash PORTRAIT mdash

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mdash AUSTRIA

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Saurn ower Leonard-Bernsein-Sraszlige 10

1220 Vienna Ausria +431288 44 0F +431288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ASERBAIDSCHAN

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Azerbaijan Branch Office

AZ1025 Baku ciy Khaayi di sric25 Sabi Orujov sree Aparmen 52 +431288 44 0F +341288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

mdash UNITED KINGDOM

Waagner Biro Ltd

Valian House 2nd Floor 4ndash10 Heneage Lane

London EC3A 5DQ Unied Kingdom +44207337 2240F +44207929 1880E inowaagnerbirocouk

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash DUBAI

Waagner Biro Stahlbau AG

Dubai Branch Office

Dubai Invesmen Park II Warehouse complexPO Box 8542 +97148855275F +97148855381

mdash POLAND

Waagner Biro Spoacutelka z oo

Al Armii Ludowej 26

00-609 Warsaw Poland +431288 44 0E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ABU DHABI

Waagner Biro Emirates Contracting L

Link Invesmen Building Plo 128 ndash Muroor (Office 102)PO Box 127687 Abu Dhabi ndash UAE +97124918818F +97124918819

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nearly 160 years o our exisence Te cspecializes in sophisicaed seel and glaecure and works wih parners who arhe worldrsquos bes in heir field Wheher

parners are archiecs or planners heilay he oundaions rom which archiemaserpieces rise Tese visions need orealized which is where we come in Winangible visions ino angible soluionproviding echnical innovaion Delve iascinaing world o Waagner-Biro seelconsrucion on he ollowing pages Wconfiden ha you will have already comone or more o our buildings in realiy991252

991252 Archiecure is ascinaing an expression oour innae human creaiviy A is bes a build-ing is more han jus a srucure i is he ruiiono an idea which oulives generaions and evokes

emoions W hen we encouner such a building we sand in ron o i and marve l a is effecon us Asounded a seeing somehing originalsomehing which in his orm we have neverseen beore somehing ha we did no evenknow was echnically possible We begin o dis-cuss i because ohers can no undersand why iso excies us In one way or anoher archiecuremoves us We a Waagner-Biro have worked onmany ousanding archiecural projecs in he

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991252When Lord Norman Foser one o leading archiecs in he world says hisa projec ldquoI is an incredible honour a gprivilege an excepional opporuniy amajor challengerdquo hen i mus be a speco archiecural projec And he renova

he Reichsag in Berlin a he end o helennium alls ino his rare caegory TGerman parliamenarianism is much m

jus a uncional wor kplace or parliameand heir saff I is a symbol o Germanmain atracion he seel and glass domroo has already drawn millions o ourlocal residens

Te dome o he Reichsag is a perec o how buildings become landmarks Torm ino saemens represening enir

ries ousanding saesmen or even indcompanies Such symbolic landmarks oulive heir creaors and heir presence

joy o many generai ons

According o Lord Foser archiecure o measurable and immeasurable aspecimmeasurable are seleced or a variey sons and assessed agains aesheic cricase o he Reichsag i was he vision oa palpable connecion beween he parians and he people Consequenly visi

look direcly ino he plenary chamber he dome hrough a shaf flooded wih o ensure ha visions become more hlecual exercises hey have o be implem

You need a consrucion parner w ho slanguage o archiecs and has he knowrealise such ideas echnically In his desecor where new challenges require orsoluions Waagner-Biro has esablishedsanding repuaion worldwide

Reichsag domeBerlin

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oday archiecural landmarks engineered by Waagner-Biro can be ound all over he wor l

Anoher in Berlin or example is Helmu Jahspecacular example o engineering creaiviyhe roo o he Sony Cener Forum on PosdSquare Te en-like canopy wih is individswahes o maerial floas above he visiors la huge umbrella I is secured o a seel ring wcables and symbolises M Fuji Japanrsquos holy main Te roo o he Sony Cener owers majcally over he skyline o he German capial jas he amous volcano dominaes is skyline

Te European Seel Design Award winning re

orm srucure which spans he inernal couro he Queen Elisabeh II Grea Cour in he Bish Museum is also among he many acclaimepresige projecs compleed by he long-sand

Ausrian company When he Briish Museumopened in 1850 i was already a sy mbol o hemigh o he Briish Empire Eigh archiecs hried heir hand on his holies o holies over hlas 150 years However he mos specacularmodificaion by Lord Norman Foser was unaken in 2000 Te covering o he inernal cou

yard previously inaccessible o he general pu

More han 3300 riangular glass panels orm ndash a ha ime ndash larges covered inernal couryin Europe I is admired by around 55 millionmuseum visiors annually One o he firs visio he new srucure was Queen Elisabeh II wperormed he official opening

Waagner-Biro also impressed is local Ausriamarke wih a sensaional projec Te Red BHangar 7 a Salzburg Airpor Generally anaircraf hangar is no a paricularly atracive sI is quadraic and pracical Bu jus like so m

oher hings ha Red Bull underakes his hais incomparable Above all i is he archiecuo Hangar 7 ha impresses From he ouside

In wha is currenly he worldrsquos alles buildinhe Burj Khalia in Dubai Waagner-Biro wasresponsible or he echnically challengingenrance pavilions

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suggess he orm o a wing Bu inside he sruc-ure he hisoric aeroplanes parked in Hangar 7

appear o be resing under a celesial dome

Archiecural landmarks are no resriced ohe radiional indusrial naions in Europe andhe USA Many emerging naions are cachingup on archiecurally presigious projecs asan expression o heir srengh and indusrialpoenial Tis is paricularly eviden in he Gulregion One archiecural monumen afer heoher is compeing o be even more specacularand more unique han he nex Waagner-Birorsquosengineering experise is in high demand here as

well For he mos amous edifice o have caused

a sir around he globe in recen years he BurjKhalia currenly he alles building in he world

a 830 m Waagner-Biro was responsible or heenrance pavilions Te archiec Adrian Smihrom he American archiecural firm SkidmoreOwings and Merrill oped no only or giganicdimensions bu was also inspired by elemens oregional culure ldquoTe Middle Eas and Dubai areheavily influenced by onion domes lance archesand idiosyncraic paterns resembling riparieflowers Spiral images are evidence o oher influ-ences Furhermore Middle Easern philosophyis embedded in iconographic mois Te origino hese mois lies in organic srucures and

boanic subsancesrdquo

Such associaions inspiraions and visiransorm a simple building ino an arc

maserpiece filling local inhabians wiand atracing masses o oreign ourisall he posiive consequences or ouriseconomy Te echnical opions or imping such projecs have improved coninover ime and will coninue o do so Budriving orce behind such maserpiecesmained consan hroughou he ages o creae monumenal archiecure991252

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991252 As a ouris in Paris you can hardly mhe Louvre I is a fixed iem on he agenevery visior o he meropolis on he SHowever a visi o he museum usuallya lenghy queue because probably he mmous museum in he world is normally

a he seams Bu now here is a plan InLouvre is scheduled o be no only biggalso more accessible As one o he manives he previously inaccessible ldquoCourinernal couryard was crowned wih ansive overhead ree-orm srucure undehe new Islamic Ar secion will be hou

was soon clear ha an archiecural ma was being creaed So he clien was ache quesion o who was capable o del

Cour VisconiLouvre Paris

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he finished aricle Paricularly as he road romis concepion o is opening in 2012 was a long

one (Noe sill incomplee a he magazinersquosediorial deadline in March 2012) Many hurdleshad o be cleared o reach he finish line Uli-maely a group o renowned companies uniedo ake up he challenge rom designers andplanners o he engineering and seel consruc-ion company Waagner-Biro Individualiss werediscouraged Raher a shared moto along helines o ldquoall or one and one or allrdquo was adopedo creae somehing special

eamwork is he decisive acor in a projec o

his magniude and complexiy Te successo he join venure depends on he clienarchiecs designers consulans engineers andmany more When he individual players arein harmony he whole becomes greaer hanhe sum o is pars Tis requires each pary oundersand engage in and implemen he oherpariesrsquo ideas I requires a grea deal o sensiiviyor each oherrsquos disciplines Cooperaion mus

be ighly inegraed A clear disi ncion be weenhe spheres o responsibiliy is simply no pos-sible For insance Waagner-Biro does no jus

ulfil echnical specificaions bu also conribuesis compeence during he developmen o hesrucure I is only when all he paricipaingcompanies cooperae closely ha an excepionalarchiecural monumen like he Cour Visconicanopy can be creaed

Ulimaely he main acor is he qualiy ohe parners and heir reliabiliy in providingsoluions Te cusomerrsquos high sandards mus

be refleced i n he work o all he companiesinvolved So only he bes o he bes will do

Renowned or is experise Waagner-Biro is ahighly regarded parner by he who-is-who oinernaional archiecs and engineers Teseinclude big name archiecs like AsympoeFoser and Parner Fuksas Jean Nouvel KPFMurphy Jahn SOM and ohers Te renownedengineers parnering Waagner-Biro include ArupBuro Happold Schlaich Bergermann Parner

Werner Sobek Ingenieure Fron Leonha rd Andrauml und Parne r

For he Louvre projec i was he highly ac-claimed Ialian designer Mario Bellini who

succeeded in creaing harmony beween hemodern srucure and he hisoric surround-ings he lying carpe which he seel-glasscanopy represens was an aesheic challenge

becau se he a rchie cs waned a ldquoso rdquo solu ionha did no conlic wih he exising sruc-ures Bu he challenge was also echnical be-cause he roo is consruced as a muli-layeredramework which by means o deliberaelychosen maerials mus reduce incidenal lighhis was o paricular imporance in a museum

where exhi bis mus be p roeced agains

excessive exposure o sunligh he 1800 orso individual glass elemens provided anoherchallenge bu no primarily due o heir largenumber I was more o a logisical challengeEach single elemen has unique dimensionsso each has a clearly deined locaion in heoverall srucure Consequenly each glasspanel had o be available on sie exacly whenrequired his demanded precise planningon he par o all projec parners and was agrea responsibiliy or he logisics companycharged wih he ask

Implemening such an excepional projecrequires eamwork o he highes order Teunderaking can be imagined as a huge machineI one o he many cogs regardless o is size is

jammed he whole machine grin ds o a sand-sill And ha is no an opion991252

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Te seel and glass consrucion covering heCour Visconi is reminiscen o a flying carpe

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Capital Gate Abu Dhabi ndash

No tower in the world

leans as much as this one

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991252 Cliens planners and engineers spend in-numerable hours on he meiculous planningo a new building is various uncionaliies

is echnical deails and he selecion o ap-propriae consrucion maerials hese are alldecisions ha are essenial or he subsequensuccess o he building Bu lersquos be honesFor he independen observer i is he lookha couns Firs impressions dicae whehera building will be regarded as somehing specialor jus anoher everyday srucure he keyplayer here is he archiec His vision leadshe way

oday here are pracically no limis o ha vision Where p reviously a visionar y design w asshelved as ineasible odayrsquos cuting edge ech-

nology enables o achieve he seemingly impos-sible Tis gives archiecs immense individualreedom a he design sage Consequenlymodern archiecure excels a geomericallyexcepional srucures and designs ha go ar

beyond excep ed norms Sandard erms likeldquoroo rdquo and ldquowallrdquo are becoming increasingly am-

biguous ake he Waagner-Biro buil ldquoBlobrdquo inEindhoven or example o see i is o recognizei Te name says i all Te Blobrsquos design eludes

mdash WHEN

GEOMETRY

BREAKS DOWNBOUNDARIESmdash

all atemps a caegorizaion Where dend Where does he roo sar Te smore reminiscen o an amorphous dro

ing weighlessly in space

Archiecural visions ofen carry a mess A narraive culminaing i n impressive gorms Te archiec o he Zloe arasya uurisic seel and glass shopping cenin he middle o Warsaw was inspired bgraphs o Warsawrsquos desrucion in 1945In paricular by he reeops on he sloning down o he Weichsel River wher

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rees were he only verical elemen in he ciyTe undulaing roo srucure represening

seven balls covered by a single cloh ress onseveral ree-like branched seel pillars Measuringapproximaely 10000 m983218 he geomericallycomplex gridshell orms a huge open space

Reconciling such a seel and glass srucure wihhe laws o physics requires cuting edge ech-nologies Te use o riangular grids has proveno be effecive as his shape gives he greaesflexibiliy or orming curves Waagner-Biro

based he seel nodesrsquo design on he echnolog yused previously or covering he Grea Cour a

he Briish Museum Te crucial skill however ishe specialised planning experise which employs3D-echnology Tis is where he engineerscome ino heir own Especially when suchexcepional geomeries are involved hey keepsigh o srucural analyses and ulimaely saeyI is only hrough his deailed work ha hearchiecural drafs someimes jus scribblings ona shee o paper are finalized or implemenaion

Saey is always he prime concern Tis shouldcome as welcome news o visiors o he Capial

Gae in Abu Dhabi According o he GuinnessBook o Records i is he ldquoWorldrsquos urhesleaning man-made owerrdquo I mocks graviy wihan awe-inspiring inclinaion o 18 degrees overis 160 meers Ta is 14 degrees more hanhe Leaning ower o Pisa Such an excepionalconsrucion projec naurally has is own arrayo challenges in erms o planning producionand consrucion Each o he owerrsquos glass panelsis shaped differenly jus as no wo corners orangles in he building are he same Te accediladeplanned and buil by Waagner-Biro consiss o

670 rhomboidal seel and glass elemens

We know ha excepional geomeries demandnohing bu he bes rom planners andengineers However he resul is well worhhe effor When a geomeric vision mees bril-lian engineers he resul has is own specificdynamic Te chances are high ha he building

wil l be nohing less han a symbol o humanachievemen991252

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991252ZLOTE TArSY AtrCTED

OVER 500000 VISITORS IN

THE FIRST WEEK991252

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991252 Seel is heavy We all know ha romence Seel is hard Ta is no secre eihseel is also exremely pliable a less obvqualiy Is pliabiliy is one o he essenin enabling seel srucures o be inricapieces o modern archiecure

Formula 1 racing car drivers can ates Tey pass underneah he gridshell sruo he Yas Marina Hoel on he new rac

in Abu Dhabi which hosed is firs Grin November 2009 Te hoelrsquos appearais disincive hanks o is ree-orm sruspanning a secion o he rack Te visihe New York archiecural firm Asympinspired by conceps like speed movemelegance and specacle Inspiraion soudirecly rom he ldquoarrdquo and ldquopoeryrdquo o mspor Te resul Te Waagner-Biro sesrucure envelopes he muli-sory ho

Te Yas Marina Hoel in Abu Dhabi ndash A specacular backdrop o Formula 1

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repilian skin Despie is 2800 onnes o seeland 5100 glass elemens i ress on only a ew

V-shaped suppors o achieve he buildingrsquosfiligree effec each o he 10700 differen rodshas o be as hin as possible No only is ap-pearance bu also he speed a which Waagner-Biro compleed his complex projec is rulyimpressive jus 18 monhs rom presening hearchiecural draf o compleion

Looking a he Yas Marina Hoel i is no sur-prising ha ree-orm srucures grew increasing-ly popular over he las decade Te possibiliiesoffered by conemporary seel-glass echnology

convince more and more cliens who wan heir building o sand ou rom he crowd

So while he Yas Marina Hoel is a highligh o Waagner-Birorsquos recen work i w as cerainly nohe only projec wih his level o complexiyTe ldquoMyZeilrdquo building ensemble in Frankur amMain shares a wow acor o similar magniude

Viewed rom he side he rumpe-shaped un-nel in he ouer accedilade elicis houghs o a blackhole in space warping ime Te buildingrsquos shellis a prime example o how flex ible a seel-glass

srucure can be

Te lighness o ree-orm srucures is par-icularly palpable in roo srucures appearingo floa hanks o heir spherical design Whileoffering proecion rom wind and weaher heuse o ransparen glass also engenders a eelingo reedom Shopping in such an amosphere ispure deligh Tis opinion was shared by hoseresponsible or Berlinrsquos Sony Cener Te impres-sive roo consrucion made o seel glass andsel-cleaning eflon covered maerial has a ligh

ransmission o 50 which creaes a riendlyshopping experience

I has been a long road rom he radiional rooorms like gable fla or pich roos o ree-ormsrucures which are only limied by archiecsrsquoimaginaions A key acor in his developmenhas been combining seel and glass We canrsquo waio see he impressive designs he uure has insore or us991252

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REVOLUTIONmdash

Queen Elizabeth II Great Court

British Museum London

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In developing seel and glass gridshell sruc-ures he connecing nodes presen a paricular

challenge he node design has o be developedand individually engineered according o

wheher he glass elemens have r iangula r orquadraic suraces he developmen processesand he soware used o program robos o cuhese nodes rom seel are coninually beingadaped and reined o boos eiciency a highdegree o auomaion is always involved in plan-ning and producion

he challenge in such demanding projecs isha oen no subcomponen resembles anoher

So mass producion is hen no longer an opionor eiher he nodes or he glass panels

Flexible soluions are also required when realis-ing ambiious geomeries Te glass panelsrsquoproven riangular orm guaranees precisely hisdegree o flexibiliy Neverheless a quadraic

991252 I was somehing new somehing unprece-dened in is field Te ree-orm canopy ha

has spanned he Queen Elizabeh II GreaCour a he Briish Museum since 2000 isregarded as he railblazer or his paricular ypeo consrucion Museum visiors are me byhe unamiliar specacle o a 6000 m983218 seel andglass domed roo consising o innumerableriangular elemens Tis marvel o modernarchiecure was only possible hanks o agradual echnological evoluion

A brie review Archiecure is enduring Some buildings appear o have been buil or eerniy

and lose none o heir ascinaion ndash archiecural jewels l ike he Egyp ian pyramid s he ColiseumGohic cahedrals or he Palace o VersaillesTese maserpieces sill make an impac on usoday Tey are enduring symbols o humancreaiviy Te wheels o ime used o urn moreslowly While Egypian emple archiecureevolved litle in 1000 years modern archiecureis subjec o a much greaer demand or develop-men Tis drives odayrsquos expecaions or origi-nal designs and proves ha echnical innovaionsare in greaer demand han ever beore Only

hey enable he realizaion o he cliensrsquo andarchiecsrsquo visions

So i is more abou evoluion han revoluionechnological leaps orward like hose incommunicaion echnology are o litle or noimporance Tere is a ar greaer emphasis onhe coninual developmen o exising soluions

As a long-sanding seel consrucion specialis wih many years o ex perience Waagner-Birohas accrued immense proprieary experise andknow-how enabling i o develop all manner

o ailor-made soluions Tis developmen isprojec driven I is he resul o each conracrsquosspecific challenges

Consrucion projecs ofen involve massive fig-ures Several hundred or even housands o onso seel or concree are se in place While suchfigures are ruly impressive hey only ell hal hesory I is only when our atenion is direced ohe deails ha he rue skill is exposed

Anchoring node s or he seel cable accedilhe DR Byen in Copenhagen

orm or even a combinaion o boh orsomeimes required or economic or ar

ural reasons I is in his very field ha WBiro is co-operaing wih he Vienna Uo echnology ogeher hey have beeing how such geomeries can be combiorm oher gridshell shapes Te accediladeing o he ldquoFesival Ciyrdquo in Dubai or eemployed no only riangular bu also glass elemens Te same soluion was uroo he ldquoCour Visconirdquo o he Louvre

Te DR Byen in Copenhagen a mediaplanned by Jean Nouvel was anoher e

venure Te bui lding is enveloped on aa rhomboidal gridshell Ataching he so he nodal srucure was jus one o hlenges Even more ingenious was he spdeveloped ensioning sysem o ensurehe end all he differen lenghs o seel

were subjec o he same ensi le orce991252

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991252You will find ambiious Waagner-Biro archi-ecural seel consrucions in many regions ohe world Te core markes are in Europe andhe Arab world In over 150 years he companyhas developed an ousanding repuaion cul-minaing in join venures wih highly renownedarchiecs and planners Te success o hesecooperaions is based on he ousanding qualiyo services and he developmen o individualengineering soluions or each projec991252

mdash SERVICE PORTFOLIO

Waagner-Birorsquos real srengh lies in high per or-mance in areas where ohers are already reachingheir limis

991252 Seel and glass building shells991252 Free-orm srucures and complex geomeries991252 Cable suppored srucures

eg pre-ensioned walls991252 Special soluions or challenging

aluminium accedilades

991252 Inegraed soluions involving addiionalmaerials like exile membranes

991252 Innovaive use o maerialslike load-bearing glass

991252 Soluions or complicaedramps sairs and mass

Te company also offers relevan service andmainenance opions (eg accedilade mainenancerenovaion modificaion)One secre o he success o Waagner-BiroSahlbau is is parnerships wih archiecs and

planning firms including

Architects Foser and Parners Jean NouvelSOM Murphy Jahn Asympoe Mario BelliniMassimiliano Fuksas KPF Wilkinson EyreHenning Larsen HOK Jerde ParnershipHeneghan Peng 3D Reid RMJM Hollein ecPlanning firms Arup Buro HappoldSchlaich Bergermann Parner Werner SobekIngenieure Fron Leonhard Andrauml undParner ec

mdash REFERENCES

Numerous reerences ates o Waagner-Birocompeence in seel consrucion Here is a boverview

991252 Reichsag dome BerlinGermany Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Sony Cener BerlinGermany Archiec Murphy Jahn

991252 Grea Cour Briish Museum LondonU Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Red Bull Hangar 7 SalzburgAusria Archiec Burgsaller

991252 Swiss Re ower (Dome) LondonUK Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Burj Khalia (Enrance pavilion) DubaiU Archiec Skidmore Owi ngs and Merri l

991252 Capial Gae Abu DhabiUAE Archiec RMJM Dubai

991252 Co-operaive Group (Corporaeheadquarers) MancheserUK

Archiec 3D Reid991252 Zloe arasy WarsawPoland

Archiec Te Jerde Parnership991252 Yas Island Marina Hoel Abu DhabiUA

Archiec Asympoe991252 Te Blob EindhovenNeherlands

Archiec Massimiliano Fuksas991252 Louvre ldquoCour Visconirdquo ParisFrance

Archiecs Mario Bell ini Rudy Riccioti991252 Baku Airpor erminal Azerbaijan

Archiec Arup991252 Bay Abdullah Kuwai

Archiec Marks Barfield Archiecs

mdash PORTRAIT mdash

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mdash AUSTRIA

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Saurn ower Leonard-Bernsein-Sraszlige 10

1220 Vienna Ausria +431288 44 0F +431288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ASERBAIDSCHAN

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Azerbaijan Branch Office

AZ1025 Baku ciy Khaayi di sric25 Sabi Orujov sree Aparmen 52 +431288 44 0F +341288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

mdash UNITED KINGDOM

Waagner Biro Ltd

Valian House 2nd Floor 4ndash10 Heneage Lane

London EC3A 5DQ Unied Kingdom +44207337 2240F +44207929 1880E inowaagnerbirocouk

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash DUBAI

Waagner Biro Stahlbau AG

Dubai Branch Office

Dubai Invesmen Park II Warehouse complexPO Box 8542 +97148855275F +97148855381

mdash POLAND

Waagner Biro Spoacutelka z oo

Al Armii Ludowej 26

00-609 Warsaw Poland +431288 44 0E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ABU DHABI

Waagner Biro Emirates Contracting L

Link Invesmen Building Plo 128 ndash Muroor (Office 102)PO Box 127687 Abu Dhabi ndash UAE +97124918818F +97124918819

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WAAGNERBIROmdashmdashINSIGHT

STEEL GLASSSTRUCTURES

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991252When Lord Norman Foser one o leading archiecs in he world says hisa projec ldquoI is an incredible honour a gprivilege an excepional opporuniy amajor challengerdquo hen i mus be a speco archiecural projec And he renova

he Reichsag in Berlin a he end o helennium alls ino his rare caegory TGerman parliamenarianism is much m

jus a uncional wor kplace or parliameand heir saff I is a symbol o Germanmain atracion he seel and glass domroo has already drawn millions o ourlocal residens

Te dome o he Reichsag is a perec o how buildings become landmarks Torm ino saemens represening enir

ries ousanding saesmen or even indcompanies Such symbolic landmarks oulive heir creaors and heir presence

joy o many generai ons

According o Lord Foser archiecure o measurable and immeasurable aspecimmeasurable are seleced or a variey sons and assessed agains aesheic cricase o he Reichsag i was he vision oa palpable connecion beween he parians and he people Consequenly visi

look direcly ino he plenary chamber he dome hrough a shaf flooded wih o ensure ha visions become more hlecual exercises hey have o be implem

You need a consrucion parner w ho slanguage o archiecs and has he knowrealise such ideas echnically In his desecor where new challenges require orsoluions Waagner-Biro has esablishedsanding repuaion worldwide

Reichsag domeBerlin

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oday archiecural landmarks engineered by Waagner-Biro can be ound all over he wor l

Anoher in Berlin or example is Helmu Jahspecacular example o engineering creaiviyhe roo o he Sony Cener Forum on PosdSquare Te en-like canopy wih is individswahes o maerial floas above he visiors la huge umbrella I is secured o a seel ring wcables and symbolises M Fuji Japanrsquos holy main Te roo o he Sony Cener owers majcally over he skyline o he German capial jas he amous volcano dominaes is skyline

Te European Seel Design Award winning re

orm srucure which spans he inernal couro he Queen Elisabeh II Grea Cour in he Bish Museum is also among he many acclaimepresige projecs compleed by he long-sand

Ausrian company When he Briish Museumopened in 1850 i was already a sy mbol o hemigh o he Briish Empire Eigh archiecs hried heir hand on his holies o holies over hlas 150 years However he mos specacularmodificaion by Lord Norman Foser was unaken in 2000 Te covering o he inernal cou

yard previously inaccessible o he general pu

More han 3300 riangular glass panels orm ndash a ha ime ndash larges covered inernal couryin Europe I is admired by around 55 millionmuseum visiors annually One o he firs visio he new srucure was Queen Elisabeh II wperormed he official opening

Waagner-Biro also impressed is local Ausriamarke wih a sensaional projec Te Red BHangar 7 a Salzburg Airpor Generally anaircraf hangar is no a paricularly atracive sI is quadraic and pracical Bu jus like so m

oher hings ha Red Bull underakes his hais incomparable Above all i is he archiecuo Hangar 7 ha impresses From he ouside

In wha is currenly he worldrsquos alles buildinhe Burj Khalia in Dubai Waagner-Biro wasresponsible or he echnically challengingenrance pavilions

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suggess he orm o a wing Bu inside he sruc-ure he hisoric aeroplanes parked in Hangar 7

appear o be resing under a celesial dome

Archiecural landmarks are no resriced ohe radiional indusrial naions in Europe andhe USA Many emerging naions are cachingup on archiecurally presigious projecs asan expression o heir srengh and indusrialpoenial Tis is paricularly eviden in he Gulregion One archiecural monumen afer heoher is compeing o be even more specacularand more unique han he nex Waagner-Birorsquosengineering experise is in high demand here as

well For he mos amous edifice o have caused

a sir around he globe in recen years he BurjKhalia currenly he alles building in he world

a 830 m Waagner-Biro was responsible or heenrance pavilions Te archiec Adrian Smihrom he American archiecural firm SkidmoreOwings and Merrill oped no only or giganicdimensions bu was also inspired by elemens oregional culure ldquoTe Middle Eas and Dubai areheavily influenced by onion domes lance archesand idiosyncraic paterns resembling riparieflowers Spiral images are evidence o oher influ-ences Furhermore Middle Easern philosophyis embedded in iconographic mois Te origino hese mois lies in organic srucures and

boanic subsancesrdquo

Such associaions inspiraions and visiransorm a simple building ino an arc

maserpiece filling local inhabians wiand atracing masses o oreign ourisall he posiive consequences or ouriseconomy Te echnical opions or imping such projecs have improved coninover ime and will coninue o do so Budriving orce behind such maserpiecesmained consan hroughou he ages o creae monumenal archiecure991252

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991252 As a ouris in Paris you can hardly mhe Louvre I is a fixed iem on he agenevery visior o he meropolis on he SHowever a visi o he museum usuallya lenghy queue because probably he mmous museum in he world is normally

a he seams Bu now here is a plan InLouvre is scheduled o be no only biggalso more accessible As one o he manives he previously inaccessible ldquoCourinernal couryard was crowned wih ansive overhead ree-orm srucure undehe new Islamic Ar secion will be hou

was soon clear ha an archiecural ma was being creaed So he clien was ache quesion o who was capable o del

Cour VisconiLouvre Paris

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he finished aricle Paricularly as he road romis concepion o is opening in 2012 was a long

one (Noe sill incomplee a he magazinersquosediorial deadline in March 2012) Many hurdleshad o be cleared o reach he finish line Uli-maely a group o renowned companies uniedo ake up he challenge rom designers andplanners o he engineering and seel consruc-ion company Waagner-Biro Individualiss werediscouraged Raher a shared moto along helines o ldquoall or one and one or allrdquo was adopedo creae somehing special

eamwork is he decisive acor in a projec o

his magniude and complexiy Te successo he join venure depends on he clienarchiecs designers consulans engineers andmany more When he individual players arein harmony he whole becomes greaer hanhe sum o is pars Tis requires each pary oundersand engage in and implemen he oherpariesrsquo ideas I requires a grea deal o sensiiviyor each oherrsquos disciplines Cooperaion mus

be ighly inegraed A clear disi ncion be weenhe spheres o responsibiliy is simply no pos-sible For insance Waagner-Biro does no jus

ulfil echnical specificaions bu also conribuesis compeence during he developmen o hesrucure I is only when all he paricipaingcompanies cooperae closely ha an excepionalarchiecural monumen like he Cour Visconicanopy can be creaed

Ulimaely he main acor is he qualiy ohe parners and heir reliabiliy in providingsoluions Te cusomerrsquos high sandards mus

be refleced i n he work o all he companiesinvolved So only he bes o he bes will do

Renowned or is experise Waagner-Biro is ahighly regarded parner by he who-is-who oinernaional archiecs and engineers Teseinclude big name archiecs like AsympoeFoser and Parner Fuksas Jean Nouvel KPFMurphy Jahn SOM and ohers Te renownedengineers parnering Waagner-Biro include ArupBuro Happold Schlaich Bergermann Parner

Werner Sobek Ingenieure Fron Leonha rd Andrauml und Parne r

For he Louvre projec i was he highly ac-claimed Ialian designer Mario Bellini who

succeeded in creaing harmony beween hemodern srucure and he hisoric surround-ings he lying carpe which he seel-glasscanopy represens was an aesheic challenge

becau se he a rchie cs waned a ldquoso rdquo solu ionha did no conlic wih he exising sruc-ures Bu he challenge was also echnical be-cause he roo is consruced as a muli-layeredramework which by means o deliberaelychosen maerials mus reduce incidenal lighhis was o paricular imporance in a museum

where exhi bis mus be p roeced agains

excessive exposure o sunligh he 1800 orso individual glass elemens provided anoherchallenge bu no primarily due o heir largenumber I was more o a logisical challengeEach single elemen has unique dimensionsso each has a clearly deined locaion in heoverall srucure Consequenly each glasspanel had o be available on sie exacly whenrequired his demanded precise planningon he par o all projec parners and was agrea responsibiliy or he logisics companycharged wih he ask

Implemening such an excepional projecrequires eamwork o he highes order Teunderaking can be imagined as a huge machineI one o he many cogs regardless o is size is

jammed he whole machine grin ds o a sand-sill And ha is no an opion991252

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Te seel and glass consrucion covering heCour Visconi is reminiscen o a flying carpe

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Capital Gate Abu Dhabi ndash

No tower in the world

leans as much as this one

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991252 Cliens planners and engineers spend in-numerable hours on he meiculous planningo a new building is various uncionaliies

is echnical deails and he selecion o ap-propriae consrucion maerials hese are alldecisions ha are essenial or he subsequensuccess o he building Bu lersquos be honesFor he independen observer i is he lookha couns Firs impressions dicae whehera building will be regarded as somehing specialor jus anoher everyday srucure he keyplayer here is he archiec His vision leadshe way

oday here are pracically no limis o ha vision Where p reviously a visionar y design w asshelved as ineasible odayrsquos cuting edge ech-

nology enables o achieve he seemingly impos-sible Tis gives archiecs immense individualreedom a he design sage Consequenlymodern archiecure excels a geomericallyexcepional srucures and designs ha go ar

beyond excep ed norms Sandard erms likeldquoroo rdquo and ldquowallrdquo are becoming increasingly am-

biguous ake he Waagner-Biro buil ldquoBlobrdquo inEindhoven or example o see i is o recognizei Te name says i all Te Blobrsquos design eludes

mdash WHEN

GEOMETRY

BREAKS DOWNBOUNDARIESmdash

all atemps a caegorizaion Where dend Where does he roo sar Te smore reminiscen o an amorphous dro

ing weighlessly in space

Archiecural visions ofen carry a mess A narraive culminaing i n impressive gorms Te archiec o he Zloe arasya uurisic seel and glass shopping cenin he middle o Warsaw was inspired bgraphs o Warsawrsquos desrucion in 1945In paricular by he reeops on he sloning down o he Weichsel River wher

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rees were he only verical elemen in he ciyTe undulaing roo srucure represening

seven balls covered by a single cloh ress onseveral ree-like branched seel pillars Measuringapproximaely 10000 m983218 he geomericallycomplex gridshell orms a huge open space

Reconciling such a seel and glass srucure wihhe laws o physics requires cuting edge ech-nologies Te use o riangular grids has proveno be effecive as his shape gives he greaesflexibiliy or orming curves Waagner-Biro

based he seel nodesrsquo design on he echnolog yused previously or covering he Grea Cour a

he Briish Museum Te crucial skill however ishe specialised planning experise which employs3D-echnology Tis is where he engineerscome ino heir own Especially when suchexcepional geomeries are involved hey keepsigh o srucural analyses and ulimaely saeyI is only hrough his deailed work ha hearchiecural drafs someimes jus scribblings ona shee o paper are finalized or implemenaion

Saey is always he prime concern Tis shouldcome as welcome news o visiors o he Capial

Gae in Abu Dhabi According o he GuinnessBook o Records i is he ldquoWorldrsquos urhesleaning man-made owerrdquo I mocks graviy wihan awe-inspiring inclinaion o 18 degrees overis 160 meers Ta is 14 degrees more hanhe Leaning ower o Pisa Such an excepionalconsrucion projec naurally has is own arrayo challenges in erms o planning producionand consrucion Each o he owerrsquos glass panelsis shaped differenly jus as no wo corners orangles in he building are he same Te accediladeplanned and buil by Waagner-Biro consiss o

670 rhomboidal seel and glass elemens

We know ha excepional geomeries demandnohing bu he bes rom planners andengineers However he resul is well worhhe effor When a geomeric vision mees bril-lian engineers he resul has is own specificdynamic Te chances are high ha he building

wil l be nohing less han a symbol o humanachievemen991252

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991252ZLOTE TArSY AtrCTED

OVER 500000 VISITORS IN

THE FIRST WEEK991252

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LIGHTNESSOF BEINGmdash

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991252 Seel is heavy We all know ha romence Seel is hard Ta is no secre eihseel is also exremely pliable a less obvqualiy Is pliabiliy is one o he essenin enabling seel srucures o be inricapieces o modern archiecure

Formula 1 racing car drivers can ates Tey pass underneah he gridshell sruo he Yas Marina Hoel on he new rac

in Abu Dhabi which hosed is firs Grin November 2009 Te hoelrsquos appearais disincive hanks o is ree-orm sruspanning a secion o he rack Te visihe New York archiecural firm Asympinspired by conceps like speed movemelegance and specacle Inspiraion soudirecly rom he ldquoarrdquo and ldquopoeryrdquo o mspor Te resul Te Waagner-Biro sesrucure envelopes he muli-sory ho

Te Yas Marina Hoel in Abu Dhabi ndash A specacular backdrop o Formula 1

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repilian skin Despie is 2800 onnes o seeland 5100 glass elemens i ress on only a ew

V-shaped suppors o achieve he buildingrsquosfiligree effec each o he 10700 differen rodshas o be as hin as possible No only is ap-pearance bu also he speed a which Waagner-Biro compleed his complex projec is rulyimpressive jus 18 monhs rom presening hearchiecural draf o compleion

Looking a he Yas Marina Hoel i is no sur-prising ha ree-orm srucures grew increasing-ly popular over he las decade Te possibiliiesoffered by conemporary seel-glass echnology

convince more and more cliens who wan heir building o sand ou rom he crowd

So while he Yas Marina Hoel is a highligh o Waagner-Birorsquos recen work i w as cerainly nohe only projec wih his level o complexiyTe ldquoMyZeilrdquo building ensemble in Frankur amMain shares a wow acor o similar magniude

Viewed rom he side he rumpe-shaped un-nel in he ouer accedilade elicis houghs o a blackhole in space warping ime Te buildingrsquos shellis a prime example o how flex ible a seel-glass

srucure can be

Te lighness o ree-orm srucures is par-icularly palpable in roo srucures appearingo floa hanks o heir spherical design Whileoffering proecion rom wind and weaher heuse o ransparen glass also engenders a eelingo reedom Shopping in such an amosphere ispure deligh Tis opinion was shared by hoseresponsible or Berlinrsquos Sony Cener Te impres-sive roo consrucion made o seel glass andsel-cleaning eflon covered maerial has a ligh

ransmission o 50 which creaes a riendlyshopping experience

I has been a long road rom he radiional rooorms like gable fla or pich roos o ree-ormsrucures which are only limied by archiecsrsquoimaginaions A key acor in his developmenhas been combining seel and glass We canrsquo waio see he impressive designs he uure has insore or us991252

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mdashEVO LUTIONNOT

REVOLUTIONmdash

Queen Elizabeth II Great Court

British Museum London

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In developing seel and glass gridshell sruc-ures he connecing nodes presen a paricular

challenge he node design has o be developedand individually engineered according o

wheher he glass elemens have r iangula r orquadraic suraces he developmen processesand he soware used o program robos o cuhese nodes rom seel are coninually beingadaped and reined o boos eiciency a highdegree o auomaion is always involved in plan-ning and producion

he challenge in such demanding projecs isha oen no subcomponen resembles anoher

So mass producion is hen no longer an opionor eiher he nodes or he glass panels

Flexible soluions are also required when realis-ing ambiious geomeries Te glass panelsrsquoproven riangular orm guaranees precisely hisdegree o flexibiliy Neverheless a quadraic

991252 I was somehing new somehing unprece-dened in is field Te ree-orm canopy ha

has spanned he Queen Elizabeh II GreaCour a he Briish Museum since 2000 isregarded as he railblazer or his paricular ypeo consrucion Museum visiors are me byhe unamiliar specacle o a 6000 m983218 seel andglass domed roo consising o innumerableriangular elemens Tis marvel o modernarchiecure was only possible hanks o agradual echnological evoluion

A brie review Archiecure is enduring Some buildings appear o have been buil or eerniy

and lose none o heir ascinaion ndash archiecural jewels l ike he Egyp ian pyramid s he ColiseumGohic cahedrals or he Palace o VersaillesTese maserpieces sill make an impac on usoday Tey are enduring symbols o humancreaiviy Te wheels o ime used o urn moreslowly While Egypian emple archiecureevolved litle in 1000 years modern archiecureis subjec o a much greaer demand or develop-men Tis drives odayrsquos expecaions or origi-nal designs and proves ha echnical innovaionsare in greaer demand han ever beore Only

hey enable he realizaion o he cliensrsquo andarchiecsrsquo visions

So i is more abou evoluion han revoluionechnological leaps orward like hose incommunicaion echnology are o litle or noimporance Tere is a ar greaer emphasis onhe coninual developmen o exising soluions

As a long-sanding seel consrucion specialis wih many years o ex perience Waagner-Birohas accrued immense proprieary experise andknow-how enabling i o develop all manner

o ailor-made soluions Tis developmen isprojec driven I is he resul o each conracrsquosspecific challenges

Consrucion projecs ofen involve massive fig-ures Several hundred or even housands o onso seel or concree are se in place While suchfigures are ruly impressive hey only ell hal hesory I is only when our atenion is direced ohe deails ha he rue skill is exposed

Anchoring node s or he seel cable accedilhe DR Byen in Copenhagen

orm or even a combinaion o boh orsomeimes required or economic or ar

ural reasons I is in his very field ha WBiro is co-operaing wih he Vienna Uo echnology ogeher hey have beeing how such geomeries can be combiorm oher gridshell shapes Te accediladeing o he ldquoFesival Ciyrdquo in Dubai or eemployed no only riangular bu also glass elemens Te same soluion was uroo he ldquoCour Visconirdquo o he Louvre

Te DR Byen in Copenhagen a mediaplanned by Jean Nouvel was anoher e

venure Te bui lding is enveloped on aa rhomboidal gridshell Ataching he so he nodal srucure was jus one o hlenges Even more ingenious was he spdeveloped ensioning sysem o ensurehe end all he differen lenghs o seel

were subjec o he same ensi le orce991252

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991252You will find ambiious Waagner-Biro archi-ecural seel consrucions in many regions ohe world Te core markes are in Europe andhe Arab world In over 150 years he companyhas developed an ousanding repuaion cul-minaing in join venures wih highly renownedarchiecs and planners Te success o hesecooperaions is based on he ousanding qualiyo services and he developmen o individualengineering soluions or each projec991252

mdash SERVICE PORTFOLIO

Waagner-Birorsquos real srengh lies in high per or-mance in areas where ohers are already reachingheir limis

991252 Seel and glass building shells991252 Free-orm srucures and complex geomeries991252 Cable suppored srucures

eg pre-ensioned walls991252 Special soluions or challenging

aluminium accedilades

991252 Inegraed soluions involving addiionalmaerials like exile membranes

991252 Innovaive use o maerialslike load-bearing glass

991252 Soluions or complicaedramps sairs and mass

Te company also offers relevan service andmainenance opions (eg accedilade mainenancerenovaion modificaion)One secre o he success o Waagner-BiroSahlbau is is parnerships wih archiecs and

planning firms including

Architects Foser and Parners Jean NouvelSOM Murphy Jahn Asympoe Mario BelliniMassimiliano Fuksas KPF Wilkinson EyreHenning Larsen HOK Jerde ParnershipHeneghan Peng 3D Reid RMJM Hollein ecPlanning firms Arup Buro HappoldSchlaich Bergermann Parner Werner SobekIngenieure Fron Leonhard Andrauml undParner ec

mdash REFERENCES

Numerous reerences ates o Waagner-Birocompeence in seel consrucion Here is a boverview

991252 Reichsag dome BerlinGermany Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Sony Cener BerlinGermany Archiec Murphy Jahn

991252 Grea Cour Briish Museum LondonU Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Red Bull Hangar 7 SalzburgAusria Archiec Burgsaller

991252 Swiss Re ower (Dome) LondonUK Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Burj Khalia (Enrance pavilion) DubaiU Archiec Skidmore Owi ngs and Merri l

991252 Capial Gae Abu DhabiUAE Archiec RMJM Dubai

991252 Co-operaive Group (Corporaeheadquarers) MancheserUK

Archiec 3D Reid991252 Zloe arasy WarsawPoland

Archiec Te Jerde Parnership991252 Yas Island Marina Hoel Abu DhabiUA

Archiec Asympoe991252 Te Blob EindhovenNeherlands

Archiec Massimiliano Fuksas991252 Louvre ldquoCour Visconirdquo ParisFrance

Archiecs Mario Bell ini Rudy Riccioti991252 Baku Airpor erminal Azerbaijan

Archiec Arup991252 Bay Abdullah Kuwai

Archiec Marks Barfield Archiecs

mdash PORTRAIT mdash

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E

mdash AUSTRIA

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Saurn ower Leonard-Bernsein-Sraszlige 10

1220 Vienna Ausria +431288 44 0F +431288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ASERBAIDSCHAN

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Azerbaijan Branch Office

AZ1025 Baku ciy Khaayi di sric25 Sabi Orujov sree Aparmen 52 +431288 44 0F +341288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

mdash UNITED KINGDOM

Waagner Biro Ltd

Valian House 2nd Floor 4ndash10 Heneage Lane

London EC3A 5DQ Unied Kingdom +44207337 2240F +44207929 1880E inowaagnerbirocouk

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash DUBAI

Waagner Biro Stahlbau AG

Dubai Branch Office

Dubai Invesmen Park II Warehouse complexPO Box 8542 +97148855275F +97148855381

mdash POLAND

Waagner Biro Spoacutelka z oo

Al Armii Ludowej 26

00-609 Warsaw Poland +431288 44 0E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ABU DHABI

Waagner Biro Emirates Contracting L

Link Invesmen Building Plo 128 ndash Muroor (Office 102)PO Box 127687 Abu Dhabi ndash UAE +97124918818F +97124918819

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VISITWAAGNER-BIRO

COM

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WAAGNERBIROmdashmdashINSIGHT

STEEL GLASSSTRUCTURES

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991252When Lord Norman Foser one o leading archiecs in he world says hisa projec ldquoI is an incredible honour a gprivilege an excepional opporuniy amajor challengerdquo hen i mus be a speco archiecural projec And he renova

he Reichsag in Berlin a he end o helennium alls ino his rare caegory TGerman parliamenarianism is much m

jus a uncional wor kplace or parliameand heir saff I is a symbol o Germanmain atracion he seel and glass domroo has already drawn millions o ourlocal residens

Te dome o he Reichsag is a perec o how buildings become landmarks Torm ino saemens represening enir

ries ousanding saesmen or even indcompanies Such symbolic landmarks oulive heir creaors and heir presence

joy o many generai ons

According o Lord Foser archiecure o measurable and immeasurable aspecimmeasurable are seleced or a variey sons and assessed agains aesheic cricase o he Reichsag i was he vision oa palpable connecion beween he parians and he people Consequenly visi

look direcly ino he plenary chamber he dome hrough a shaf flooded wih o ensure ha visions become more hlecual exercises hey have o be implem

You need a consrucion parner w ho slanguage o archiecs and has he knowrealise such ideas echnically In his desecor where new challenges require orsoluions Waagner-Biro has esablishedsanding repuaion worldwide

Reichsag domeBerlin

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oday archiecural landmarks engineered by Waagner-Biro can be ound all over he wor l

Anoher in Berlin or example is Helmu Jahspecacular example o engineering creaiviyhe roo o he Sony Cener Forum on PosdSquare Te en-like canopy wih is individswahes o maerial floas above he visiors la huge umbrella I is secured o a seel ring wcables and symbolises M Fuji Japanrsquos holy main Te roo o he Sony Cener owers majcally over he skyline o he German capial jas he amous volcano dominaes is skyline

Te European Seel Design Award winning re

orm srucure which spans he inernal couro he Queen Elisabeh II Grea Cour in he Bish Museum is also among he many acclaimepresige projecs compleed by he long-sand

Ausrian company When he Briish Museumopened in 1850 i was already a sy mbol o hemigh o he Briish Empire Eigh archiecs hried heir hand on his holies o holies over hlas 150 years However he mos specacularmodificaion by Lord Norman Foser was unaken in 2000 Te covering o he inernal cou

yard previously inaccessible o he general pu

More han 3300 riangular glass panels orm ndash a ha ime ndash larges covered inernal couryin Europe I is admired by around 55 millionmuseum visiors annually One o he firs visio he new srucure was Queen Elisabeh II wperormed he official opening

Waagner-Biro also impressed is local Ausriamarke wih a sensaional projec Te Red BHangar 7 a Salzburg Airpor Generally anaircraf hangar is no a paricularly atracive sI is quadraic and pracical Bu jus like so m

oher hings ha Red Bull underakes his hais incomparable Above all i is he archiecuo Hangar 7 ha impresses From he ouside

In wha is currenly he worldrsquos alles buildinhe Burj Khalia in Dubai Waagner-Biro wasresponsible or he echnically challengingenrance pavilions

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suggess he orm o a wing Bu inside he sruc-ure he hisoric aeroplanes parked in Hangar 7

appear o be resing under a celesial dome

Archiecural landmarks are no resriced ohe radiional indusrial naions in Europe andhe USA Many emerging naions are cachingup on archiecurally presigious projecs asan expression o heir srengh and indusrialpoenial Tis is paricularly eviden in he Gulregion One archiecural monumen afer heoher is compeing o be even more specacularand more unique han he nex Waagner-Birorsquosengineering experise is in high demand here as

well For he mos amous edifice o have caused

a sir around he globe in recen years he BurjKhalia currenly he alles building in he world

a 830 m Waagner-Biro was responsible or heenrance pavilions Te archiec Adrian Smihrom he American archiecural firm SkidmoreOwings and Merrill oped no only or giganicdimensions bu was also inspired by elemens oregional culure ldquoTe Middle Eas and Dubai areheavily influenced by onion domes lance archesand idiosyncraic paterns resembling riparieflowers Spiral images are evidence o oher influ-ences Furhermore Middle Easern philosophyis embedded in iconographic mois Te origino hese mois lies in organic srucures and

boanic subsancesrdquo

Such associaions inspiraions and visiransorm a simple building ino an arc

maserpiece filling local inhabians wiand atracing masses o oreign ourisall he posiive consequences or ouriseconomy Te echnical opions or imping such projecs have improved coninover ime and will coninue o do so Budriving orce behind such maserpiecesmained consan hroughou he ages o creae monumenal archiecure991252

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991252 As a ouris in Paris you can hardly mhe Louvre I is a fixed iem on he agenevery visior o he meropolis on he SHowever a visi o he museum usuallya lenghy queue because probably he mmous museum in he world is normally

a he seams Bu now here is a plan InLouvre is scheduled o be no only biggalso more accessible As one o he manives he previously inaccessible ldquoCourinernal couryard was crowned wih ansive overhead ree-orm srucure undehe new Islamic Ar secion will be hou

was soon clear ha an archiecural ma was being creaed So he clien was ache quesion o who was capable o del

Cour VisconiLouvre Paris

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he finished aricle Paricularly as he road romis concepion o is opening in 2012 was a long

one (Noe sill incomplee a he magazinersquosediorial deadline in March 2012) Many hurdleshad o be cleared o reach he finish line Uli-maely a group o renowned companies uniedo ake up he challenge rom designers andplanners o he engineering and seel consruc-ion company Waagner-Biro Individualiss werediscouraged Raher a shared moto along helines o ldquoall or one and one or allrdquo was adopedo creae somehing special

eamwork is he decisive acor in a projec o

his magniude and complexiy Te successo he join venure depends on he clienarchiecs designers consulans engineers andmany more When he individual players arein harmony he whole becomes greaer hanhe sum o is pars Tis requires each pary oundersand engage in and implemen he oherpariesrsquo ideas I requires a grea deal o sensiiviyor each oherrsquos disciplines Cooperaion mus

be ighly inegraed A clear disi ncion be weenhe spheres o responsibiliy is simply no pos-sible For insance Waagner-Biro does no jus

ulfil echnical specificaions bu also conribuesis compeence during he developmen o hesrucure I is only when all he paricipaingcompanies cooperae closely ha an excepionalarchiecural monumen like he Cour Visconicanopy can be creaed

Ulimaely he main acor is he qualiy ohe parners and heir reliabiliy in providingsoluions Te cusomerrsquos high sandards mus

be refleced i n he work o all he companiesinvolved So only he bes o he bes will do

Renowned or is experise Waagner-Biro is ahighly regarded parner by he who-is-who oinernaional archiecs and engineers Teseinclude big name archiecs like AsympoeFoser and Parner Fuksas Jean Nouvel KPFMurphy Jahn SOM and ohers Te renownedengineers parnering Waagner-Biro include ArupBuro Happold Schlaich Bergermann Parner

Werner Sobek Ingenieure Fron Leonha rd Andrauml und Parne r

For he Louvre projec i was he highly ac-claimed Ialian designer Mario Bellini who

succeeded in creaing harmony beween hemodern srucure and he hisoric surround-ings he lying carpe which he seel-glasscanopy represens was an aesheic challenge

becau se he a rchie cs waned a ldquoso rdquo solu ionha did no conlic wih he exising sruc-ures Bu he challenge was also echnical be-cause he roo is consruced as a muli-layeredramework which by means o deliberaelychosen maerials mus reduce incidenal lighhis was o paricular imporance in a museum

where exhi bis mus be p roeced agains

excessive exposure o sunligh he 1800 orso individual glass elemens provided anoherchallenge bu no primarily due o heir largenumber I was more o a logisical challengeEach single elemen has unique dimensionsso each has a clearly deined locaion in heoverall srucure Consequenly each glasspanel had o be available on sie exacly whenrequired his demanded precise planningon he par o all projec parners and was agrea responsibiliy or he logisics companycharged wih he ask

Implemening such an excepional projecrequires eamwork o he highes order Teunderaking can be imagined as a huge machineI one o he many cogs regardless o is size is

jammed he whole machine grin ds o a sand-sill And ha is no an opion991252

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Te seel and glass consrucion covering heCour Visconi is reminiscen o a flying carpe

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Capital Gate Abu Dhabi ndash

No tower in the world

leans as much as this one

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991252 Cliens planners and engineers spend in-numerable hours on he meiculous planningo a new building is various uncionaliies

is echnical deails and he selecion o ap-propriae consrucion maerials hese are alldecisions ha are essenial or he subsequensuccess o he building Bu lersquos be honesFor he independen observer i is he lookha couns Firs impressions dicae whehera building will be regarded as somehing specialor jus anoher everyday srucure he keyplayer here is he archiec His vision leadshe way

oday here are pracically no limis o ha vision Where p reviously a visionar y design w asshelved as ineasible odayrsquos cuting edge ech-

nology enables o achieve he seemingly impos-sible Tis gives archiecs immense individualreedom a he design sage Consequenlymodern archiecure excels a geomericallyexcepional srucures and designs ha go ar

beyond excep ed norms Sandard erms likeldquoroo rdquo and ldquowallrdquo are becoming increasingly am-

biguous ake he Waagner-Biro buil ldquoBlobrdquo inEindhoven or example o see i is o recognizei Te name says i all Te Blobrsquos design eludes

mdash WHEN

GEOMETRY

BREAKS DOWNBOUNDARIESmdash

all atemps a caegorizaion Where dend Where does he roo sar Te smore reminiscen o an amorphous dro

ing weighlessly in space

Archiecural visions ofen carry a mess A narraive culminaing i n impressive gorms Te archiec o he Zloe arasya uurisic seel and glass shopping cenin he middle o Warsaw was inspired bgraphs o Warsawrsquos desrucion in 1945In paricular by he reeops on he sloning down o he Weichsel River wher

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rees were he only verical elemen in he ciyTe undulaing roo srucure represening

seven balls covered by a single cloh ress onseveral ree-like branched seel pillars Measuringapproximaely 10000 m983218 he geomericallycomplex gridshell orms a huge open space

Reconciling such a seel and glass srucure wihhe laws o physics requires cuting edge ech-nologies Te use o riangular grids has proveno be effecive as his shape gives he greaesflexibiliy or orming curves Waagner-Biro

based he seel nodesrsquo design on he echnolog yused previously or covering he Grea Cour a

he Briish Museum Te crucial skill however ishe specialised planning experise which employs3D-echnology Tis is where he engineerscome ino heir own Especially when suchexcepional geomeries are involved hey keepsigh o srucural analyses and ulimaely saeyI is only hrough his deailed work ha hearchiecural drafs someimes jus scribblings ona shee o paper are finalized or implemenaion

Saey is always he prime concern Tis shouldcome as welcome news o visiors o he Capial

Gae in Abu Dhabi According o he GuinnessBook o Records i is he ldquoWorldrsquos urhesleaning man-made owerrdquo I mocks graviy wihan awe-inspiring inclinaion o 18 degrees overis 160 meers Ta is 14 degrees more hanhe Leaning ower o Pisa Such an excepionalconsrucion projec naurally has is own arrayo challenges in erms o planning producionand consrucion Each o he owerrsquos glass panelsis shaped differenly jus as no wo corners orangles in he building are he same Te accediladeplanned and buil by Waagner-Biro consiss o

670 rhomboidal seel and glass elemens

We know ha excepional geomeries demandnohing bu he bes rom planners andengineers However he resul is well worhhe effor When a geomeric vision mees bril-lian engineers he resul has is own specificdynamic Te chances are high ha he building

wil l be nohing less han a symbol o humanachievemen991252

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991252ZLOTE TArSY AtrCTED

OVER 500000 VISITORS IN

THE FIRST WEEK991252

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LIGHTNESSOF BEINGmdash

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991252 Seel is heavy We all know ha romence Seel is hard Ta is no secre eihseel is also exremely pliable a less obvqualiy Is pliabiliy is one o he essenin enabling seel srucures o be inricapieces o modern archiecure

Formula 1 racing car drivers can ates Tey pass underneah he gridshell sruo he Yas Marina Hoel on he new rac

in Abu Dhabi which hosed is firs Grin November 2009 Te hoelrsquos appearais disincive hanks o is ree-orm sruspanning a secion o he rack Te visihe New York archiecural firm Asympinspired by conceps like speed movemelegance and specacle Inspiraion soudirecly rom he ldquoarrdquo and ldquopoeryrdquo o mspor Te resul Te Waagner-Biro sesrucure envelopes he muli-sory ho

Te Yas Marina Hoel in Abu Dhabi ndash A specacular backdrop o Formula 1

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repilian skin Despie is 2800 onnes o seeland 5100 glass elemens i ress on only a ew

V-shaped suppors o achieve he buildingrsquosfiligree effec each o he 10700 differen rodshas o be as hin as possible No only is ap-pearance bu also he speed a which Waagner-Biro compleed his complex projec is rulyimpressive jus 18 monhs rom presening hearchiecural draf o compleion

Looking a he Yas Marina Hoel i is no sur-prising ha ree-orm srucures grew increasing-ly popular over he las decade Te possibiliiesoffered by conemporary seel-glass echnology

convince more and more cliens who wan heir building o sand ou rom he crowd

So while he Yas Marina Hoel is a highligh o Waagner-Birorsquos recen work i w as cerainly nohe only projec wih his level o complexiyTe ldquoMyZeilrdquo building ensemble in Frankur amMain shares a wow acor o similar magniude

Viewed rom he side he rumpe-shaped un-nel in he ouer accedilade elicis houghs o a blackhole in space warping ime Te buildingrsquos shellis a prime example o how flex ible a seel-glass

srucure can be

Te lighness o ree-orm srucures is par-icularly palpable in roo srucures appearingo floa hanks o heir spherical design Whileoffering proecion rom wind and weaher heuse o ransparen glass also engenders a eelingo reedom Shopping in such an amosphere ispure deligh Tis opinion was shared by hoseresponsible or Berlinrsquos Sony Cener Te impres-sive roo consrucion made o seel glass andsel-cleaning eflon covered maerial has a ligh

ransmission o 50 which creaes a riendlyshopping experience

I has been a long road rom he radiional rooorms like gable fla or pich roos o ree-ormsrucures which are only limied by archiecsrsquoimaginaions A key acor in his developmenhas been combining seel and glass We canrsquo waio see he impressive designs he uure has insore or us991252

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mdashEVO LUTIONNOT

REVOLUTIONmdash

Queen Elizabeth II Great Court

British Museum London

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In developing seel and glass gridshell sruc-ures he connecing nodes presen a paricular

challenge he node design has o be developedand individually engineered according o

wheher he glass elemens have r iangula r orquadraic suraces he developmen processesand he soware used o program robos o cuhese nodes rom seel are coninually beingadaped and reined o boos eiciency a highdegree o auomaion is always involved in plan-ning and producion

he challenge in such demanding projecs isha oen no subcomponen resembles anoher

So mass producion is hen no longer an opionor eiher he nodes or he glass panels

Flexible soluions are also required when realis-ing ambiious geomeries Te glass panelsrsquoproven riangular orm guaranees precisely hisdegree o flexibiliy Neverheless a quadraic

991252 I was somehing new somehing unprece-dened in is field Te ree-orm canopy ha

has spanned he Queen Elizabeh II GreaCour a he Briish Museum since 2000 isregarded as he railblazer or his paricular ypeo consrucion Museum visiors are me byhe unamiliar specacle o a 6000 m983218 seel andglass domed roo consising o innumerableriangular elemens Tis marvel o modernarchiecure was only possible hanks o agradual echnological evoluion

A brie review Archiecure is enduring Some buildings appear o have been buil or eerniy

and lose none o heir ascinaion ndash archiecural jewels l ike he Egyp ian pyramid s he ColiseumGohic cahedrals or he Palace o VersaillesTese maserpieces sill make an impac on usoday Tey are enduring symbols o humancreaiviy Te wheels o ime used o urn moreslowly While Egypian emple archiecureevolved litle in 1000 years modern archiecureis subjec o a much greaer demand or develop-men Tis drives odayrsquos expecaions or origi-nal designs and proves ha echnical innovaionsare in greaer demand han ever beore Only

hey enable he realizaion o he cliensrsquo andarchiecsrsquo visions

So i is more abou evoluion han revoluionechnological leaps orward like hose incommunicaion echnology are o litle or noimporance Tere is a ar greaer emphasis onhe coninual developmen o exising soluions

As a long-sanding seel consrucion specialis wih many years o ex perience Waagner-Birohas accrued immense proprieary experise andknow-how enabling i o develop all manner

o ailor-made soluions Tis developmen isprojec driven I is he resul o each conracrsquosspecific challenges

Consrucion projecs ofen involve massive fig-ures Several hundred or even housands o onso seel or concree are se in place While suchfigures are ruly impressive hey only ell hal hesory I is only when our atenion is direced ohe deails ha he rue skill is exposed

Anchoring node s or he seel cable accedilhe DR Byen in Copenhagen

orm or even a combinaion o boh orsomeimes required or economic or ar

ural reasons I is in his very field ha WBiro is co-operaing wih he Vienna Uo echnology ogeher hey have beeing how such geomeries can be combiorm oher gridshell shapes Te accediladeing o he ldquoFesival Ciyrdquo in Dubai or eemployed no only riangular bu also glass elemens Te same soluion was uroo he ldquoCour Visconirdquo o he Louvre

Te DR Byen in Copenhagen a mediaplanned by Jean Nouvel was anoher e

venure Te bui lding is enveloped on aa rhomboidal gridshell Ataching he so he nodal srucure was jus one o hlenges Even more ingenious was he spdeveloped ensioning sysem o ensurehe end all he differen lenghs o seel

were subjec o he same ensi le orce991252

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991252You will find ambiious Waagner-Biro archi-ecural seel consrucions in many regions ohe world Te core markes are in Europe andhe Arab world In over 150 years he companyhas developed an ousanding repuaion cul-minaing in join venures wih highly renownedarchiecs and planners Te success o hesecooperaions is based on he ousanding qualiyo services and he developmen o individualengineering soluions or each projec991252

mdash SERVICE PORTFOLIO

Waagner-Birorsquos real srengh lies in high per or-mance in areas where ohers are already reachingheir limis

991252 Seel and glass building shells991252 Free-orm srucures and complex geomeries991252 Cable suppored srucures

eg pre-ensioned walls991252 Special soluions or challenging

aluminium accedilades

991252 Inegraed soluions involving addiionalmaerials like exile membranes

991252 Innovaive use o maerialslike load-bearing glass

991252 Soluions or complicaedramps sairs and mass

Te company also offers relevan service andmainenance opions (eg accedilade mainenancerenovaion modificaion)One secre o he success o Waagner-BiroSahlbau is is parnerships wih archiecs and

planning firms including

Architects Foser and Parners Jean NouvelSOM Murphy Jahn Asympoe Mario BelliniMassimiliano Fuksas KPF Wilkinson EyreHenning Larsen HOK Jerde ParnershipHeneghan Peng 3D Reid RMJM Hollein ecPlanning firms Arup Buro HappoldSchlaich Bergermann Parner Werner SobekIngenieure Fron Leonhard Andrauml undParner ec

mdash REFERENCES

Numerous reerences ates o Waagner-Birocompeence in seel consrucion Here is a boverview

991252 Reichsag dome BerlinGermany Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Sony Cener BerlinGermany Archiec Murphy Jahn

991252 Grea Cour Briish Museum LondonU Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Red Bull Hangar 7 SalzburgAusria Archiec Burgsaller

991252 Swiss Re ower (Dome) LondonUK Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Burj Khalia (Enrance pavilion) DubaiU Archiec Skidmore Owi ngs and Merri l

991252 Capial Gae Abu DhabiUAE Archiec RMJM Dubai

991252 Co-operaive Group (Corporaeheadquarers) MancheserUK

Archiec 3D Reid991252 Zloe arasy WarsawPoland

Archiec Te Jerde Parnership991252 Yas Island Marina Hoel Abu DhabiUA

Archiec Asympoe991252 Te Blob EindhovenNeherlands

Archiec Massimiliano Fuksas991252 Louvre ldquoCour Visconirdquo ParisFrance

Archiecs Mario Bell ini Rudy Riccioti991252 Baku Airpor erminal Azerbaijan

Archiec Arup991252 Bay Abdullah Kuwai

Archiec Marks Barfield Archiecs

mdash PORTRAIT mdash

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E

mdash AUSTRIA

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Saurn ower Leonard-Bernsein-Sraszlige 10

1220 Vienna Ausria +431288 44 0F +431288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ASERBAIDSCHAN

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Azerbaijan Branch Office

AZ1025 Baku ciy Khaayi di sric25 Sabi Orujov sree Aparmen 52 +431288 44 0F +341288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

mdash UNITED KINGDOM

Waagner Biro Ltd

Valian House 2nd Floor 4ndash10 Heneage Lane

London EC3A 5DQ Unied Kingdom +44207337 2240F +44207929 1880E inowaagnerbirocouk

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash DUBAI

Waagner Biro Stahlbau AG

Dubai Branch Office

Dubai Invesmen Park II Warehouse complexPO Box 8542 +97148855275F +97148855381

mdash POLAND

Waagner Biro Spoacutelka z oo

Al Armii Ludowej 26

00-609 Warsaw Poland +431288 44 0E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ABU DHABI

Waagner Biro Emirates Contracting L

Link Invesmen Building Plo 128 ndash Muroor (Office 102)PO Box 127687 Abu Dhabi ndash UAE +97124918818F +97124918819

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VISITWAAGNER-BIRO

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WAAGNERBIROmdashmdashINSIGHT

STEEL GLASSSTRUCTURES

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oday archiecural landmarks engineered by Waagner-Biro can be ound all over he wor l

Anoher in Berlin or example is Helmu Jahspecacular example o engineering creaiviyhe roo o he Sony Cener Forum on PosdSquare Te en-like canopy wih is individswahes o maerial floas above he visiors la huge umbrella I is secured o a seel ring wcables and symbolises M Fuji Japanrsquos holy main Te roo o he Sony Cener owers majcally over he skyline o he German capial jas he amous volcano dominaes is skyline

Te European Seel Design Award winning re

orm srucure which spans he inernal couro he Queen Elisabeh II Grea Cour in he Bish Museum is also among he many acclaimepresige projecs compleed by he long-sand

Ausrian company When he Briish Museumopened in 1850 i was already a sy mbol o hemigh o he Briish Empire Eigh archiecs hried heir hand on his holies o holies over hlas 150 years However he mos specacularmodificaion by Lord Norman Foser was unaken in 2000 Te covering o he inernal cou

yard previously inaccessible o he general pu

More han 3300 riangular glass panels orm ndash a ha ime ndash larges covered inernal couryin Europe I is admired by around 55 millionmuseum visiors annually One o he firs visio he new srucure was Queen Elisabeh II wperormed he official opening

Waagner-Biro also impressed is local Ausriamarke wih a sensaional projec Te Red BHangar 7 a Salzburg Airpor Generally anaircraf hangar is no a paricularly atracive sI is quadraic and pracical Bu jus like so m

oher hings ha Red Bull underakes his hais incomparable Above all i is he archiecuo Hangar 7 ha impresses From he ouside

In wha is currenly he worldrsquos alles buildinhe Burj Khalia in Dubai Waagner-Biro wasresponsible or he echnically challengingenrance pavilions

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suggess he orm o a wing Bu inside he sruc-ure he hisoric aeroplanes parked in Hangar 7

appear o be resing under a celesial dome

Archiecural landmarks are no resriced ohe radiional indusrial naions in Europe andhe USA Many emerging naions are cachingup on archiecurally presigious projecs asan expression o heir srengh and indusrialpoenial Tis is paricularly eviden in he Gulregion One archiecural monumen afer heoher is compeing o be even more specacularand more unique han he nex Waagner-Birorsquosengineering experise is in high demand here as

well For he mos amous edifice o have caused

a sir around he globe in recen years he BurjKhalia currenly he alles building in he world

a 830 m Waagner-Biro was responsible or heenrance pavilions Te archiec Adrian Smihrom he American archiecural firm SkidmoreOwings and Merrill oped no only or giganicdimensions bu was also inspired by elemens oregional culure ldquoTe Middle Eas and Dubai areheavily influenced by onion domes lance archesand idiosyncraic paterns resembling riparieflowers Spiral images are evidence o oher influ-ences Furhermore Middle Easern philosophyis embedded in iconographic mois Te origino hese mois lies in organic srucures and

boanic subsancesrdquo

Such associaions inspiraions and visiransorm a simple building ino an arc

maserpiece filling local inhabians wiand atracing masses o oreign ourisall he posiive consequences or ouriseconomy Te echnical opions or imping such projecs have improved coninover ime and will coninue o do so Budriving orce behind such maserpiecesmained consan hroughou he ages o creae monumenal archiecure991252

Red Bull H

S

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SUMOF ITS PARTSmdash

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991252 As a ouris in Paris you can hardly mhe Louvre I is a fixed iem on he agenevery visior o he meropolis on he SHowever a visi o he museum usuallya lenghy queue because probably he mmous museum in he world is normally

a he seams Bu now here is a plan InLouvre is scheduled o be no only biggalso more accessible As one o he manives he previously inaccessible ldquoCourinernal couryard was crowned wih ansive overhead ree-orm srucure undehe new Islamic Ar secion will be hou

was soon clear ha an archiecural ma was being creaed So he clien was ache quesion o who was capable o del

Cour VisconiLouvre Paris

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he finished aricle Paricularly as he road romis concepion o is opening in 2012 was a long

one (Noe sill incomplee a he magazinersquosediorial deadline in March 2012) Many hurdleshad o be cleared o reach he finish line Uli-maely a group o renowned companies uniedo ake up he challenge rom designers andplanners o he engineering and seel consruc-ion company Waagner-Biro Individualiss werediscouraged Raher a shared moto along helines o ldquoall or one and one or allrdquo was adopedo creae somehing special

eamwork is he decisive acor in a projec o

his magniude and complexiy Te successo he join venure depends on he clienarchiecs designers consulans engineers andmany more When he individual players arein harmony he whole becomes greaer hanhe sum o is pars Tis requires each pary oundersand engage in and implemen he oherpariesrsquo ideas I requires a grea deal o sensiiviyor each oherrsquos disciplines Cooperaion mus

be ighly inegraed A clear disi ncion be weenhe spheres o responsibiliy is simply no pos-sible For insance Waagner-Biro does no jus

ulfil echnical specificaions bu also conribuesis compeence during he developmen o hesrucure I is only when all he paricipaingcompanies cooperae closely ha an excepionalarchiecural monumen like he Cour Visconicanopy can be creaed

Ulimaely he main acor is he qualiy ohe parners and heir reliabiliy in providingsoluions Te cusomerrsquos high sandards mus

be refleced i n he work o all he companiesinvolved So only he bes o he bes will do

Renowned or is experise Waagner-Biro is ahighly regarded parner by he who-is-who oinernaional archiecs and engineers Teseinclude big name archiecs like AsympoeFoser and Parner Fuksas Jean Nouvel KPFMurphy Jahn SOM and ohers Te renownedengineers parnering Waagner-Biro include ArupBuro Happold Schlaich Bergermann Parner

Werner Sobek Ingenieure Fron Leonha rd Andrauml und Parne r

For he Louvre projec i was he highly ac-claimed Ialian designer Mario Bellini who

succeeded in creaing harmony beween hemodern srucure and he hisoric surround-ings he lying carpe which he seel-glasscanopy represens was an aesheic challenge

becau se he a rchie cs waned a ldquoso rdquo solu ionha did no conlic wih he exising sruc-ures Bu he challenge was also echnical be-cause he roo is consruced as a muli-layeredramework which by means o deliberaelychosen maerials mus reduce incidenal lighhis was o paricular imporance in a museum

where exhi bis mus be p roeced agains

excessive exposure o sunligh he 1800 orso individual glass elemens provided anoherchallenge bu no primarily due o heir largenumber I was more o a logisical challengeEach single elemen has unique dimensionsso each has a clearly deined locaion in heoverall srucure Consequenly each glasspanel had o be available on sie exacly whenrequired his demanded precise planningon he par o all projec parners and was agrea responsibiliy or he logisics companycharged wih he ask

Implemening such an excepional projecrequires eamwork o he highes order Teunderaking can be imagined as a huge machineI one o he many cogs regardless o is size is

jammed he whole machine grin ds o a sand-sill And ha is no an opion991252

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Capital Gate Abu Dhabi ndash

No tower in the world

leans as much as this one

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991252 Cliens planners and engineers spend in-numerable hours on he meiculous planningo a new building is various uncionaliies

is echnical deails and he selecion o ap-propriae consrucion maerials hese are alldecisions ha are essenial or he subsequensuccess o he building Bu lersquos be honesFor he independen observer i is he lookha couns Firs impressions dicae whehera building will be regarded as somehing specialor jus anoher everyday srucure he keyplayer here is he archiec His vision leadshe way

oday here are pracically no limis o ha vision Where p reviously a visionar y design w asshelved as ineasible odayrsquos cuting edge ech-

nology enables o achieve he seemingly impos-sible Tis gives archiecs immense individualreedom a he design sage Consequenlymodern archiecure excels a geomericallyexcepional srucures and designs ha go ar

beyond excep ed norms Sandard erms likeldquoroo rdquo and ldquowallrdquo are becoming increasingly am-

biguous ake he Waagner-Biro buil ldquoBlobrdquo inEindhoven or example o see i is o recognizei Te name says i all Te Blobrsquos design eludes

mdash WHEN

GEOMETRY

BREAKS DOWNBOUNDARIESmdash

all atemps a caegorizaion Where dend Where does he roo sar Te smore reminiscen o an amorphous dro

ing weighlessly in space

Archiecural visions ofen carry a mess A narraive culminaing i n impressive gorms Te archiec o he Zloe arasya uurisic seel and glass shopping cenin he middle o Warsaw was inspired bgraphs o Warsawrsquos desrucion in 1945In paricular by he reeops on he sloning down o he Weichsel River wher

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

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rees were he only verical elemen in he ciyTe undulaing roo srucure represening

seven balls covered by a single cloh ress onseveral ree-like branched seel pillars Measuringapproximaely 10000 m983218 he geomericallycomplex gridshell orms a huge open space

Reconciling such a seel and glass srucure wihhe laws o physics requires cuting edge ech-nologies Te use o riangular grids has proveno be effecive as his shape gives he greaesflexibiliy or orming curves Waagner-Biro

based he seel nodesrsquo design on he echnolog yused previously or covering he Grea Cour a

he Briish Museum Te crucial skill however ishe specialised planning experise which employs3D-echnology Tis is where he engineerscome ino heir own Especially when suchexcepional geomeries are involved hey keepsigh o srucural analyses and ulimaely saeyI is only hrough his deailed work ha hearchiecural drafs someimes jus scribblings ona shee o paper are finalized or implemenaion

Saey is always he prime concern Tis shouldcome as welcome news o visiors o he Capial

Gae in Abu Dhabi According o he GuinnessBook o Records i is he ldquoWorldrsquos urhesleaning man-made owerrdquo I mocks graviy wihan awe-inspiring inclinaion o 18 degrees overis 160 meers Ta is 14 degrees more hanhe Leaning ower o Pisa Such an excepionalconsrucion projec naurally has is own arrayo challenges in erms o planning producionand consrucion Each o he owerrsquos glass panelsis shaped differenly jus as no wo corners orangles in he building are he same Te accediladeplanned and buil by Waagner-Biro consiss o

670 rhomboidal seel and glass elemens

We know ha excepional geomeries demandnohing bu he bes rom planners andengineers However he resul is well worhhe effor When a geomeric vision mees bril-lian engineers he resul has is own specificdynamic Te chances are high ha he building

wil l be nohing less han a symbol o humanachievemen991252

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991252ZLOTE TArSY AtrCTED

OVER 500000 VISITORS IN

THE FIRST WEEK991252

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mdash FLOATING VIRTUOSITYFROM THE

LIGHTNESSOF BEINGmdash

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991252 Seel is heavy We all know ha romence Seel is hard Ta is no secre eihseel is also exremely pliable a less obvqualiy Is pliabiliy is one o he essenin enabling seel srucures o be inricapieces o modern archiecure

Formula 1 racing car drivers can ates Tey pass underneah he gridshell sruo he Yas Marina Hoel on he new rac

in Abu Dhabi which hosed is firs Grin November 2009 Te hoelrsquos appearais disincive hanks o is ree-orm sruspanning a secion o he rack Te visihe New York archiecural firm Asympinspired by conceps like speed movemelegance and specacle Inspiraion soudirecly rom he ldquoarrdquo and ldquopoeryrdquo o mspor Te resul Te Waagner-Biro sesrucure envelopes he muli-sory ho

Te Yas Marina Hoel in Abu Dhabi ndash A specacular backdrop o Formula 1

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repilian skin Despie is 2800 onnes o seeland 5100 glass elemens i ress on only a ew

V-shaped suppors o achieve he buildingrsquosfiligree effec each o he 10700 differen rodshas o be as hin as possible No only is ap-pearance bu also he speed a which Waagner-Biro compleed his complex projec is rulyimpressive jus 18 monhs rom presening hearchiecural draf o compleion

Looking a he Yas Marina Hoel i is no sur-prising ha ree-orm srucures grew increasing-ly popular over he las decade Te possibiliiesoffered by conemporary seel-glass echnology

convince more and more cliens who wan heir building o sand ou rom he crowd

So while he Yas Marina Hoel is a highligh o Waagner-Birorsquos recen work i w as cerainly nohe only projec wih his level o complexiyTe ldquoMyZeilrdquo building ensemble in Frankur amMain shares a wow acor o similar magniude

Viewed rom he side he rumpe-shaped un-nel in he ouer accedilade elicis houghs o a blackhole in space warping ime Te buildingrsquos shellis a prime example o how flex ible a seel-glass

srucure can be

Te lighness o ree-orm srucures is par-icularly palpable in roo srucures appearingo floa hanks o heir spherical design Whileoffering proecion rom wind and weaher heuse o ransparen glass also engenders a eelingo reedom Shopping in such an amosphere ispure deligh Tis opinion was shared by hoseresponsible or Berlinrsquos Sony Cener Te impres-sive roo consrucion made o seel glass andsel-cleaning eflon covered maerial has a ligh

ransmission o 50 which creaes a riendlyshopping experience

I has been a long road rom he radiional rooorms like gable fla or pich roos o ree-ormsrucures which are only limied by archiecsrsquoimaginaions A key acor in his developmenhas been combining seel and glass We canrsquo waio see he impressive designs he uure has insore or us991252

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mdashEVO LUTIONNOT

REVOLUTIONmdash

Queen Elizabeth II Great Court

British Museum London

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In developing seel and glass gridshell sruc-ures he connecing nodes presen a paricular

challenge he node design has o be developedand individually engineered according o

wheher he glass elemens have r iangula r orquadraic suraces he developmen processesand he soware used o program robos o cuhese nodes rom seel are coninually beingadaped and reined o boos eiciency a highdegree o auomaion is always involved in plan-ning and producion

he challenge in such demanding projecs isha oen no subcomponen resembles anoher

So mass producion is hen no longer an opionor eiher he nodes or he glass panels

Flexible soluions are also required when realis-ing ambiious geomeries Te glass panelsrsquoproven riangular orm guaranees precisely hisdegree o flexibiliy Neverheless a quadraic

991252 I was somehing new somehing unprece-dened in is field Te ree-orm canopy ha

has spanned he Queen Elizabeh II GreaCour a he Briish Museum since 2000 isregarded as he railblazer or his paricular ypeo consrucion Museum visiors are me byhe unamiliar specacle o a 6000 m983218 seel andglass domed roo consising o innumerableriangular elemens Tis marvel o modernarchiecure was only possible hanks o agradual echnological evoluion

A brie review Archiecure is enduring Some buildings appear o have been buil or eerniy

and lose none o heir ascinaion ndash archiecural jewels l ike he Egyp ian pyramid s he ColiseumGohic cahedrals or he Palace o VersaillesTese maserpieces sill make an impac on usoday Tey are enduring symbols o humancreaiviy Te wheels o ime used o urn moreslowly While Egypian emple archiecureevolved litle in 1000 years modern archiecureis subjec o a much greaer demand or develop-men Tis drives odayrsquos expecaions or origi-nal designs and proves ha echnical innovaionsare in greaer demand han ever beore Only

hey enable he realizaion o he cliensrsquo andarchiecsrsquo visions

So i is more abou evoluion han revoluionechnological leaps orward like hose incommunicaion echnology are o litle or noimporance Tere is a ar greaer emphasis onhe coninual developmen o exising soluions

As a long-sanding seel consrucion specialis wih many years o ex perience Waagner-Birohas accrued immense proprieary experise andknow-how enabling i o develop all manner

o ailor-made soluions Tis developmen isprojec driven I is he resul o each conracrsquosspecific challenges

Consrucion projecs ofen involve massive fig-ures Several hundred or even housands o onso seel or concree are se in place While suchfigures are ruly impressive hey only ell hal hesory I is only when our atenion is direced ohe deails ha he rue skill is exposed

Anchoring node s or he seel cable accedilhe DR Byen in Copenhagen

orm or even a combinaion o boh orsomeimes required or economic or ar

ural reasons I is in his very field ha WBiro is co-operaing wih he Vienna Uo echnology ogeher hey have beeing how such geomeries can be combiorm oher gridshell shapes Te accediladeing o he ldquoFesival Ciyrdquo in Dubai or eemployed no only riangular bu also glass elemens Te same soluion was uroo he ldquoCour Visconirdquo o he Louvre

Te DR Byen in Copenhagen a mediaplanned by Jean Nouvel was anoher e

venure Te bui lding is enveloped on aa rhomboidal gridshell Ataching he so he nodal srucure was jus one o hlenges Even more ingenious was he spdeveloped ensioning sysem o ensurehe end all he differen lenghs o seel

were subjec o he same ensi le orce991252

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991252You will find ambiious Waagner-Biro archi-ecural seel consrucions in many regions ohe world Te core markes are in Europe andhe Arab world In over 150 years he companyhas developed an ousanding repuaion cul-minaing in join venures wih highly renownedarchiecs and planners Te success o hesecooperaions is based on he ousanding qualiyo services and he developmen o individualengineering soluions or each projec991252

mdash SERVICE PORTFOLIO

Waagner-Birorsquos real srengh lies in high per or-mance in areas where ohers are already reachingheir limis

991252 Seel and glass building shells991252 Free-orm srucures and complex geomeries991252 Cable suppored srucures

eg pre-ensioned walls991252 Special soluions or challenging

aluminium accedilades

991252 Inegraed soluions involving addiionalmaerials like exile membranes

991252 Innovaive use o maerialslike load-bearing glass

991252 Soluions or complicaedramps sairs and mass

Te company also offers relevan service andmainenance opions (eg accedilade mainenancerenovaion modificaion)One secre o he success o Waagner-BiroSahlbau is is parnerships wih archiecs and

planning firms including

Architects Foser and Parners Jean NouvelSOM Murphy Jahn Asympoe Mario BelliniMassimiliano Fuksas KPF Wilkinson EyreHenning Larsen HOK Jerde ParnershipHeneghan Peng 3D Reid RMJM Hollein ecPlanning firms Arup Buro HappoldSchlaich Bergermann Parner Werner SobekIngenieure Fron Leonhard Andrauml undParner ec

mdash REFERENCES

Numerous reerences ates o Waagner-Birocompeence in seel consrucion Here is a boverview

991252 Reichsag dome BerlinGermany Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Sony Cener BerlinGermany Archiec Murphy Jahn

991252 Grea Cour Briish Museum LondonU Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Red Bull Hangar 7 SalzburgAusria Archiec Burgsaller

991252 Swiss Re ower (Dome) LondonUK Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Burj Khalia (Enrance pavilion) DubaiU Archiec Skidmore Owi ngs and Merri l

991252 Capial Gae Abu DhabiUAE Archiec RMJM Dubai

991252 Co-operaive Group (Corporaeheadquarers) MancheserUK

Archiec 3D Reid991252 Zloe arasy WarsawPoland

Archiec Te Jerde Parnership991252 Yas Island Marina Hoel Abu DhabiUA

Archiec Asympoe991252 Te Blob EindhovenNeherlands

Archiec Massimiliano Fuksas991252 Louvre ldquoCour Visconirdquo ParisFrance

Archiecs Mario Bell ini Rudy Riccioti991252 Baku Airpor erminal Azerbaijan

Archiec Arup991252 Bay Abdullah Kuwai

Archiec Marks Barfield Archiecs

mdash PORTRAIT mdash

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E

mdash AUSTRIA

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Saurn ower Leonard-Bernsein-Sraszlige 10

1220 Vienna Ausria +431288 44 0F +431288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ASERBAIDSCHAN

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Azerbaijan Branch Office

AZ1025 Baku ciy Khaayi di sric25 Sabi Orujov sree Aparmen 52 +431288 44 0F +341288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

mdash UNITED KINGDOM

Waagner Biro Ltd

Valian House 2nd Floor 4ndash10 Heneage Lane

London EC3A 5DQ Unied Kingdom +44207337 2240F +44207929 1880E inowaagnerbirocouk

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash DUBAI

Waagner Biro Stahlbau AG

Dubai Branch Office

Dubai Invesmen Park II Warehouse complexPO Box 8542 +97148855275F +97148855381

mdash POLAND

Waagner Biro Spoacutelka z oo

Al Armii Ludowej 26

00-609 Warsaw Poland +431288 44 0E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ABU DHABI

Waagner Biro Emirates Contracting L

Link Invesmen Building Plo 128 ndash Muroor (Office 102)PO Box 127687 Abu Dhabi ndash UAE +97124918818F +97124918819

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VISITWAAGNER-BIRO

COM

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WAAGNERBIROmdashmdashINSIGHT

STEEL GLASSSTRUCTURES

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suggess he orm o a wing Bu inside he sruc-ure he hisoric aeroplanes parked in Hangar 7

appear o be resing under a celesial dome

Archiecural landmarks are no resriced ohe radiional indusrial naions in Europe andhe USA Many emerging naions are cachingup on archiecurally presigious projecs asan expression o heir srengh and indusrialpoenial Tis is paricularly eviden in he Gulregion One archiecural monumen afer heoher is compeing o be even more specacularand more unique han he nex Waagner-Birorsquosengineering experise is in high demand here as

well For he mos amous edifice o have caused

a sir around he globe in recen years he BurjKhalia currenly he alles building in he world

a 830 m Waagner-Biro was responsible or heenrance pavilions Te archiec Adrian Smihrom he American archiecural firm SkidmoreOwings and Merrill oped no only or giganicdimensions bu was also inspired by elemens oregional culure ldquoTe Middle Eas and Dubai areheavily influenced by onion domes lance archesand idiosyncraic paterns resembling riparieflowers Spiral images are evidence o oher influ-ences Furhermore Middle Easern philosophyis embedded in iconographic mois Te origino hese mois lies in organic srucures and

boanic subsancesrdquo

Such associaions inspiraions and visiransorm a simple building ino an arc

maserpiece filling local inhabians wiand atracing masses o oreign ourisall he posiive consequences or ouriseconomy Te echnical opions or imping such projecs have improved coninover ime and will coninue o do so Budriving orce behind such maserpiecesmained consan hroughou he ages o creae monumenal archiecure991252

Red Bull H

S

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mdash MORETHAN THE

SUMOF ITS PARTSmdash

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991252 As a ouris in Paris you can hardly mhe Louvre I is a fixed iem on he agenevery visior o he meropolis on he SHowever a visi o he museum usuallya lenghy queue because probably he mmous museum in he world is normally

a he seams Bu now here is a plan InLouvre is scheduled o be no only biggalso more accessible As one o he manives he previously inaccessible ldquoCourinernal couryard was crowned wih ansive overhead ree-orm srucure undehe new Islamic Ar secion will be hou

was soon clear ha an archiecural ma was being creaed So he clien was ache quesion o who was capable o del

Cour VisconiLouvre Paris

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he finished aricle Paricularly as he road romis concepion o is opening in 2012 was a long

one (Noe sill incomplee a he magazinersquosediorial deadline in March 2012) Many hurdleshad o be cleared o reach he finish line Uli-maely a group o renowned companies uniedo ake up he challenge rom designers andplanners o he engineering and seel consruc-ion company Waagner-Biro Individualiss werediscouraged Raher a shared moto along helines o ldquoall or one and one or allrdquo was adopedo creae somehing special

eamwork is he decisive acor in a projec o

his magniude and complexiy Te successo he join venure depends on he clienarchiecs designers consulans engineers andmany more When he individual players arein harmony he whole becomes greaer hanhe sum o is pars Tis requires each pary oundersand engage in and implemen he oherpariesrsquo ideas I requires a grea deal o sensiiviyor each oherrsquos disciplines Cooperaion mus

be ighly inegraed A clear disi ncion be weenhe spheres o responsibiliy is simply no pos-sible For insance Waagner-Biro does no jus

ulfil echnical specificaions bu also conribuesis compeence during he developmen o hesrucure I is only when all he paricipaingcompanies cooperae closely ha an excepionalarchiecural monumen like he Cour Visconicanopy can be creaed

Ulimaely he main acor is he qualiy ohe parners and heir reliabiliy in providingsoluions Te cusomerrsquos high sandards mus

be refleced i n he work o all he companiesinvolved So only he bes o he bes will do

Renowned or is experise Waagner-Biro is ahighly regarded parner by he who-is-who oinernaional archiecs and engineers Teseinclude big name archiecs like AsympoeFoser and Parner Fuksas Jean Nouvel KPFMurphy Jahn SOM and ohers Te renownedengineers parnering Waagner-Biro include ArupBuro Happold Schlaich Bergermann Parner

Werner Sobek Ingenieure Fron Leonha rd Andrauml und Parne r

For he Louvre projec i was he highly ac-claimed Ialian designer Mario Bellini who

succeeded in creaing harmony beween hemodern srucure and he hisoric surround-ings he lying carpe which he seel-glasscanopy represens was an aesheic challenge

becau se he a rchie cs waned a ldquoso rdquo solu ionha did no conlic wih he exising sruc-ures Bu he challenge was also echnical be-cause he roo is consruced as a muli-layeredramework which by means o deliberaelychosen maerials mus reduce incidenal lighhis was o paricular imporance in a museum

where exhi bis mus be p roeced agains

excessive exposure o sunligh he 1800 orso individual glass elemens provided anoherchallenge bu no primarily due o heir largenumber I was more o a logisical challengeEach single elemen has unique dimensionsso each has a clearly deined locaion in heoverall srucure Consequenly each glasspanel had o be available on sie exacly whenrequired his demanded precise planningon he par o all projec parners and was agrea responsibiliy or he logisics companycharged wih he ask

Implemening such an excepional projecrequires eamwork o he highes order Teunderaking can be imagined as a huge machineI one o he many cogs regardless o is size is

jammed he whole machine grin ds o a sand-sill And ha is no an opion991252

10 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

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Te seel and glass consrucion covering heCour Visconi is reminiscen o a flying carpe

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

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Capital Gate Abu Dhabi ndash

No tower in the world

leans as much as this one

12 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

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991252 Cliens planners and engineers spend in-numerable hours on he meiculous planningo a new building is various uncionaliies

is echnical deails and he selecion o ap-propriae consrucion maerials hese are alldecisions ha are essenial or he subsequensuccess o he building Bu lersquos be honesFor he independen observer i is he lookha couns Firs impressions dicae whehera building will be regarded as somehing specialor jus anoher everyday srucure he keyplayer here is he archiec His vision leadshe way

oday here are pracically no limis o ha vision Where p reviously a visionar y design w asshelved as ineasible odayrsquos cuting edge ech-

nology enables o achieve he seemingly impos-sible Tis gives archiecs immense individualreedom a he design sage Consequenlymodern archiecure excels a geomericallyexcepional srucures and designs ha go ar

beyond excep ed norms Sandard erms likeldquoroo rdquo and ldquowallrdquo are becoming increasingly am-

biguous ake he Waagner-Biro buil ldquoBlobrdquo inEindhoven or example o see i is o recognizei Te name says i all Te Blobrsquos design eludes

mdash WHEN

GEOMETRY

BREAKS DOWNBOUNDARIESmdash

all atemps a caegorizaion Where dend Where does he roo sar Te smore reminiscen o an amorphous dro

ing weighlessly in space

Archiecural visions ofen carry a mess A narraive culminaing i n impressive gorms Te archiec o he Zloe arasya uurisic seel and glass shopping cenin he middle o Warsaw was inspired bgraphs o Warsawrsquos desrucion in 1945In paricular by he reeops on he sloning down o he Weichsel River wher

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1425

rees were he only verical elemen in he ciyTe undulaing roo srucure represening

seven balls covered by a single cloh ress onseveral ree-like branched seel pillars Measuringapproximaely 10000 m983218 he geomericallycomplex gridshell orms a huge open space

Reconciling such a seel and glass srucure wihhe laws o physics requires cuting edge ech-nologies Te use o riangular grids has proveno be effecive as his shape gives he greaesflexibiliy or orming curves Waagner-Biro

based he seel nodesrsquo design on he echnolog yused previously or covering he Grea Cour a

he Briish Museum Te crucial skill however ishe specialised planning experise which employs3D-echnology Tis is where he engineerscome ino heir own Especially when suchexcepional geomeries are involved hey keepsigh o srucural analyses and ulimaely saeyI is only hrough his deailed work ha hearchiecural drafs someimes jus scribblings ona shee o paper are finalized or implemenaion

Saey is always he prime concern Tis shouldcome as welcome news o visiors o he Capial

Gae in Abu Dhabi According o he GuinnessBook o Records i is he ldquoWorldrsquos urhesleaning man-made owerrdquo I mocks graviy wihan awe-inspiring inclinaion o 18 degrees overis 160 meers Ta is 14 degrees more hanhe Leaning ower o Pisa Such an excepionalconsrucion projec naurally has is own arrayo challenges in erms o planning producionand consrucion Each o he owerrsquos glass panelsis shaped differenly jus as no wo corners orangles in he building are he same Te accediladeplanned and buil by Waagner-Biro consiss o

670 rhomboidal seel and glass elemens

We know ha excepional geomeries demandnohing bu he bes rom planners andengineers However he resul is well worhhe effor When a geomeric vision mees bril-lian engineers he resul has is own specificdynamic Te chances are high ha he building

wil l be nohing less han a symbol o humanachievemen991252

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OVER 500000 VISITORS IN

THE FIRST WEEK991252

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991252 Seel is heavy We all know ha romence Seel is hard Ta is no secre eihseel is also exremely pliable a less obvqualiy Is pliabiliy is one o he essenin enabling seel srucures o be inricapieces o modern archiecure

Formula 1 racing car drivers can ates Tey pass underneah he gridshell sruo he Yas Marina Hoel on he new rac

in Abu Dhabi which hosed is firs Grin November 2009 Te hoelrsquos appearais disincive hanks o is ree-orm sruspanning a secion o he rack Te visihe New York archiecural firm Asympinspired by conceps like speed movemelegance and specacle Inspiraion soudirecly rom he ldquoarrdquo and ldquopoeryrdquo o mspor Te resul Te Waagner-Biro sesrucure envelopes he muli-sory ho

Te Yas Marina Hoel in Abu Dhabi ndash A specacular backdrop o Formula 1

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repilian skin Despie is 2800 onnes o seeland 5100 glass elemens i ress on only a ew

V-shaped suppors o achieve he buildingrsquosfiligree effec each o he 10700 differen rodshas o be as hin as possible No only is ap-pearance bu also he speed a which Waagner-Biro compleed his complex projec is rulyimpressive jus 18 monhs rom presening hearchiecural draf o compleion

Looking a he Yas Marina Hoel i is no sur-prising ha ree-orm srucures grew increasing-ly popular over he las decade Te possibiliiesoffered by conemporary seel-glass echnology

convince more and more cliens who wan heir building o sand ou rom he crowd

So while he Yas Marina Hoel is a highligh o Waagner-Birorsquos recen work i w as cerainly nohe only projec wih his level o complexiyTe ldquoMyZeilrdquo building ensemble in Frankur amMain shares a wow acor o similar magniude

Viewed rom he side he rumpe-shaped un-nel in he ouer accedilade elicis houghs o a blackhole in space warping ime Te buildingrsquos shellis a prime example o how flex ible a seel-glass

srucure can be

Te lighness o ree-orm srucures is par-icularly palpable in roo srucures appearingo floa hanks o heir spherical design Whileoffering proecion rom wind and weaher heuse o ransparen glass also engenders a eelingo reedom Shopping in such an amosphere ispure deligh Tis opinion was shared by hoseresponsible or Berlinrsquos Sony Cener Te impres-sive roo consrucion made o seel glass andsel-cleaning eflon covered maerial has a ligh

ransmission o 50 which creaes a riendlyshopping experience

I has been a long road rom he radiional rooorms like gable fla or pich roos o ree-ormsrucures which are only limied by archiecsrsquoimaginaions A key acor in his developmenhas been combining seel and glass We canrsquo waio see he impressive designs he uure has insore or us991252

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mdashEVO LUTIONNOT

REVOLUTIONmdash

Queen Elizabeth II Great Court

British Museum London

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In developing seel and glass gridshell sruc-ures he connecing nodes presen a paricular

challenge he node design has o be developedand individually engineered according o

wheher he glass elemens have r iangula r orquadraic suraces he developmen processesand he soware used o program robos o cuhese nodes rom seel are coninually beingadaped and reined o boos eiciency a highdegree o auomaion is always involved in plan-ning and producion

he challenge in such demanding projecs isha oen no subcomponen resembles anoher

So mass producion is hen no longer an opionor eiher he nodes or he glass panels

Flexible soluions are also required when realis-ing ambiious geomeries Te glass panelsrsquoproven riangular orm guaranees precisely hisdegree o flexibiliy Neverheless a quadraic

991252 I was somehing new somehing unprece-dened in is field Te ree-orm canopy ha

has spanned he Queen Elizabeh II GreaCour a he Briish Museum since 2000 isregarded as he railblazer or his paricular ypeo consrucion Museum visiors are me byhe unamiliar specacle o a 6000 m983218 seel andglass domed roo consising o innumerableriangular elemens Tis marvel o modernarchiecure was only possible hanks o agradual echnological evoluion

A brie review Archiecure is enduring Some buildings appear o have been buil or eerniy

and lose none o heir ascinaion ndash archiecural jewels l ike he Egyp ian pyramid s he ColiseumGohic cahedrals or he Palace o VersaillesTese maserpieces sill make an impac on usoday Tey are enduring symbols o humancreaiviy Te wheels o ime used o urn moreslowly While Egypian emple archiecureevolved litle in 1000 years modern archiecureis subjec o a much greaer demand or develop-men Tis drives odayrsquos expecaions or origi-nal designs and proves ha echnical innovaionsare in greaer demand han ever beore Only

hey enable he realizaion o he cliensrsquo andarchiecsrsquo visions

So i is more abou evoluion han revoluionechnological leaps orward like hose incommunicaion echnology are o litle or noimporance Tere is a ar greaer emphasis onhe coninual developmen o exising soluions

As a long-sanding seel consrucion specialis wih many years o ex perience Waagner-Birohas accrued immense proprieary experise andknow-how enabling i o develop all manner

o ailor-made soluions Tis developmen isprojec driven I is he resul o each conracrsquosspecific challenges

Consrucion projecs ofen involve massive fig-ures Several hundred or even housands o onso seel or concree are se in place While suchfigures are ruly impressive hey only ell hal hesory I is only when our atenion is direced ohe deails ha he rue skill is exposed

Anchoring node s or he seel cable accedilhe DR Byen in Copenhagen

orm or even a combinaion o boh orsomeimes required or economic or ar

ural reasons I is in his very field ha WBiro is co-operaing wih he Vienna Uo echnology ogeher hey have beeing how such geomeries can be combiorm oher gridshell shapes Te accediladeing o he ldquoFesival Ciyrdquo in Dubai or eemployed no only riangular bu also glass elemens Te same soluion was uroo he ldquoCour Visconirdquo o he Louvre

Te DR Byen in Copenhagen a mediaplanned by Jean Nouvel was anoher e

venure Te bui lding is enveloped on aa rhomboidal gridshell Ataching he so he nodal srucure was jus one o hlenges Even more ingenious was he spdeveloped ensioning sysem o ensurehe end all he differen lenghs o seel

were subjec o he same ensi le orce991252

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991252You will find ambiious Waagner-Biro archi-ecural seel consrucions in many regions ohe world Te core markes are in Europe andhe Arab world In over 150 years he companyhas developed an ousanding repuaion cul-minaing in join venures wih highly renownedarchiecs and planners Te success o hesecooperaions is based on he ousanding qualiyo services and he developmen o individualengineering soluions or each projec991252

mdash SERVICE PORTFOLIO

Waagner-Birorsquos real srengh lies in high per or-mance in areas where ohers are already reachingheir limis

991252 Seel and glass building shells991252 Free-orm srucures and complex geomeries991252 Cable suppored srucures

eg pre-ensioned walls991252 Special soluions or challenging

aluminium accedilades

991252 Inegraed soluions involving addiionalmaerials like exile membranes

991252 Innovaive use o maerialslike load-bearing glass

991252 Soluions or complicaedramps sairs and mass

Te company also offers relevan service andmainenance opions (eg accedilade mainenancerenovaion modificaion)One secre o he success o Waagner-BiroSahlbau is is parnerships wih archiecs and

planning firms including

Architects Foser and Parners Jean NouvelSOM Murphy Jahn Asympoe Mario BelliniMassimiliano Fuksas KPF Wilkinson EyreHenning Larsen HOK Jerde ParnershipHeneghan Peng 3D Reid RMJM Hollein ecPlanning firms Arup Buro HappoldSchlaich Bergermann Parner Werner SobekIngenieure Fron Leonhard Andrauml undParner ec

mdash REFERENCES

Numerous reerences ates o Waagner-Birocompeence in seel consrucion Here is a boverview

991252 Reichsag dome BerlinGermany Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Sony Cener BerlinGermany Archiec Murphy Jahn

991252 Grea Cour Briish Museum LondonU Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Red Bull Hangar 7 SalzburgAusria Archiec Burgsaller

991252 Swiss Re ower (Dome) LondonUK Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Burj Khalia (Enrance pavilion) DubaiU Archiec Skidmore Owi ngs and Merri l

991252 Capial Gae Abu DhabiUAE Archiec RMJM Dubai

991252 Co-operaive Group (Corporaeheadquarers) MancheserUK

Archiec 3D Reid991252 Zloe arasy WarsawPoland

Archiec Te Jerde Parnership991252 Yas Island Marina Hoel Abu DhabiUA

Archiec Asympoe991252 Te Blob EindhovenNeherlands

Archiec Massimiliano Fuksas991252 Louvre ldquoCour Visconirdquo ParisFrance

Archiecs Mario Bell ini Rudy Riccioti991252 Baku Airpor erminal Azerbaijan

Archiec Arup991252 Bay Abdullah Kuwai

Archiec Marks Barfield Archiecs

mdash PORTRAIT mdash

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E

mdash AUSTRIA

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Saurn ower Leonard-Bernsein-Sraszlige 10

1220 Vienna Ausria +431288 44 0F +431288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ASERBAIDSCHAN

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Azerbaijan Branch Office

AZ1025 Baku ciy Khaayi di sric25 Sabi Orujov sree Aparmen 52 +431288 44 0F +341288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

mdash UNITED KINGDOM

Waagner Biro Ltd

Valian House 2nd Floor 4ndash10 Heneage Lane

London EC3A 5DQ Unied Kingdom +44207337 2240F +44207929 1880E inowaagnerbirocouk

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash DUBAI

Waagner Biro Stahlbau AG

Dubai Branch Office

Dubai Invesmen Park II Warehouse complexPO Box 8542 +97148855275F +97148855381

mdash POLAND

Waagner Biro Spoacutelka z oo

Al Armii Ludowej 26

00-609 Warsaw Poland +431288 44 0E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ABU DHABI

Waagner Biro Emirates Contracting L

Link Invesmen Building Plo 128 ndash Muroor (Office 102)PO Box 127687 Abu Dhabi ndash UAE +97124918818F +97124918819

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VISITWAAGNER-BIRO

COM

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WAAGNERBIROmdashmdashINSIGHT

STEEL GLASSSTRUCTURES

Page 8: Image Steel Glass11

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mdash MORETHAN THE

SUMOF ITS PARTSmdash

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991252 As a ouris in Paris you can hardly mhe Louvre I is a fixed iem on he agenevery visior o he meropolis on he SHowever a visi o he museum usuallya lenghy queue because probably he mmous museum in he world is normally

a he seams Bu now here is a plan InLouvre is scheduled o be no only biggalso more accessible As one o he manives he previously inaccessible ldquoCourinernal couryard was crowned wih ansive overhead ree-orm srucure undehe new Islamic Ar secion will be hou

was soon clear ha an archiecural ma was being creaed So he clien was ache quesion o who was capable o del

Cour VisconiLouvre Paris

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he finished aricle Paricularly as he road romis concepion o is opening in 2012 was a long

one (Noe sill incomplee a he magazinersquosediorial deadline in March 2012) Many hurdleshad o be cleared o reach he finish line Uli-maely a group o renowned companies uniedo ake up he challenge rom designers andplanners o he engineering and seel consruc-ion company Waagner-Biro Individualiss werediscouraged Raher a shared moto along helines o ldquoall or one and one or allrdquo was adopedo creae somehing special

eamwork is he decisive acor in a projec o

his magniude and complexiy Te successo he join venure depends on he clienarchiecs designers consulans engineers andmany more When he individual players arein harmony he whole becomes greaer hanhe sum o is pars Tis requires each pary oundersand engage in and implemen he oherpariesrsquo ideas I requires a grea deal o sensiiviyor each oherrsquos disciplines Cooperaion mus

be ighly inegraed A clear disi ncion be weenhe spheres o responsibiliy is simply no pos-sible For insance Waagner-Biro does no jus

ulfil echnical specificaions bu also conribuesis compeence during he developmen o hesrucure I is only when all he paricipaingcompanies cooperae closely ha an excepionalarchiecural monumen like he Cour Visconicanopy can be creaed

Ulimaely he main acor is he qualiy ohe parners and heir reliabiliy in providingsoluions Te cusomerrsquos high sandards mus

be refleced i n he work o all he companiesinvolved So only he bes o he bes will do

Renowned or is experise Waagner-Biro is ahighly regarded parner by he who-is-who oinernaional archiecs and engineers Teseinclude big name archiecs like AsympoeFoser and Parner Fuksas Jean Nouvel KPFMurphy Jahn SOM and ohers Te renownedengineers parnering Waagner-Biro include ArupBuro Happold Schlaich Bergermann Parner

Werner Sobek Ingenieure Fron Leonha rd Andrauml und Parne r

For he Louvre projec i was he highly ac-claimed Ialian designer Mario Bellini who

succeeded in creaing harmony beween hemodern srucure and he hisoric surround-ings he lying carpe which he seel-glasscanopy represens was an aesheic challenge

becau se he a rchie cs waned a ldquoso rdquo solu ionha did no conlic wih he exising sruc-ures Bu he challenge was also echnical be-cause he roo is consruced as a muli-layeredramework which by means o deliberaelychosen maerials mus reduce incidenal lighhis was o paricular imporance in a museum

where exhi bis mus be p roeced agains

excessive exposure o sunligh he 1800 orso individual glass elemens provided anoherchallenge bu no primarily due o heir largenumber I was more o a logisical challengeEach single elemen has unique dimensionsso each has a clearly deined locaion in heoverall srucure Consequenly each glasspanel had o be available on sie exacly whenrequired his demanded precise planningon he par o all projec parners and was agrea responsibiliy or he logisics companycharged wih he ask

Implemening such an excepional projecrequires eamwork o he highes order Teunderaking can be imagined as a huge machineI one o he many cogs regardless o is size is

jammed he whole machine grin ds o a sand-sill And ha is no an opion991252

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Te seel and glass consrucion covering heCour Visconi is reminiscen o a flying carpe

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Capital Gate Abu Dhabi ndash

No tower in the world

leans as much as this one

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991252 Cliens planners and engineers spend in-numerable hours on he meiculous planningo a new building is various uncionaliies

is echnical deails and he selecion o ap-propriae consrucion maerials hese are alldecisions ha are essenial or he subsequensuccess o he building Bu lersquos be honesFor he independen observer i is he lookha couns Firs impressions dicae whehera building will be regarded as somehing specialor jus anoher everyday srucure he keyplayer here is he archiec His vision leadshe way

oday here are pracically no limis o ha vision Where p reviously a visionar y design w asshelved as ineasible odayrsquos cuting edge ech-

nology enables o achieve he seemingly impos-sible Tis gives archiecs immense individualreedom a he design sage Consequenlymodern archiecure excels a geomericallyexcepional srucures and designs ha go ar

beyond excep ed norms Sandard erms likeldquoroo rdquo and ldquowallrdquo are becoming increasingly am-

biguous ake he Waagner-Biro buil ldquoBlobrdquo inEindhoven or example o see i is o recognizei Te name says i all Te Blobrsquos design eludes

mdash WHEN

GEOMETRY

BREAKS DOWNBOUNDARIESmdash

all atemps a caegorizaion Where dend Where does he roo sar Te smore reminiscen o an amorphous dro

ing weighlessly in space

Archiecural visions ofen carry a mess A narraive culminaing i n impressive gorms Te archiec o he Zloe arasya uurisic seel and glass shopping cenin he middle o Warsaw was inspired bgraphs o Warsawrsquos desrucion in 1945In paricular by he reeops on he sloning down o he Weichsel River wher

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rees were he only verical elemen in he ciyTe undulaing roo srucure represening

seven balls covered by a single cloh ress onseveral ree-like branched seel pillars Measuringapproximaely 10000 m983218 he geomericallycomplex gridshell orms a huge open space

Reconciling such a seel and glass srucure wihhe laws o physics requires cuting edge ech-nologies Te use o riangular grids has proveno be effecive as his shape gives he greaesflexibiliy or orming curves Waagner-Biro

based he seel nodesrsquo design on he echnolog yused previously or covering he Grea Cour a

he Briish Museum Te crucial skill however ishe specialised planning experise which employs3D-echnology Tis is where he engineerscome ino heir own Especially when suchexcepional geomeries are involved hey keepsigh o srucural analyses and ulimaely saeyI is only hrough his deailed work ha hearchiecural drafs someimes jus scribblings ona shee o paper are finalized or implemenaion

Saey is always he prime concern Tis shouldcome as welcome news o visiors o he Capial

Gae in Abu Dhabi According o he GuinnessBook o Records i is he ldquoWorldrsquos urhesleaning man-made owerrdquo I mocks graviy wihan awe-inspiring inclinaion o 18 degrees overis 160 meers Ta is 14 degrees more hanhe Leaning ower o Pisa Such an excepionalconsrucion projec naurally has is own arrayo challenges in erms o planning producionand consrucion Each o he owerrsquos glass panelsis shaped differenly jus as no wo corners orangles in he building are he same Te accediladeplanned and buil by Waagner-Biro consiss o

670 rhomboidal seel and glass elemens

We know ha excepional geomeries demandnohing bu he bes rom planners andengineers However he resul is well worhhe effor When a geomeric vision mees bril-lian engineers he resul has is own specificdynamic Te chances are high ha he building

wil l be nohing less han a symbol o humanachievemen991252

14 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1525

991252ZLOTE TArSY AtrCTED

OVER 500000 VISITORS IN

THE FIRST WEEK991252

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1625

mdash FLOATING VIRTUOSITYFROM THE

LIGHTNESSOF BEINGmdash

16 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

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991252 Seel is heavy We all know ha romence Seel is hard Ta is no secre eihseel is also exremely pliable a less obvqualiy Is pliabiliy is one o he essenin enabling seel srucures o be inricapieces o modern archiecure

Formula 1 racing car drivers can ates Tey pass underneah he gridshell sruo he Yas Marina Hoel on he new rac

in Abu Dhabi which hosed is firs Grin November 2009 Te hoelrsquos appearais disincive hanks o is ree-orm sruspanning a secion o he rack Te visihe New York archiecural firm Asympinspired by conceps like speed movemelegance and specacle Inspiraion soudirecly rom he ldquoarrdquo and ldquopoeryrdquo o mspor Te resul Te Waagner-Biro sesrucure envelopes he muli-sory ho

Te Yas Marina Hoel in Abu Dhabi ndash A specacular backdrop o Formula 1

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1825

repilian skin Despie is 2800 onnes o seeland 5100 glass elemens i ress on only a ew

V-shaped suppors o achieve he buildingrsquosfiligree effec each o he 10700 differen rodshas o be as hin as possible No only is ap-pearance bu also he speed a which Waagner-Biro compleed his complex projec is rulyimpressive jus 18 monhs rom presening hearchiecural draf o compleion

Looking a he Yas Marina Hoel i is no sur-prising ha ree-orm srucures grew increasing-ly popular over he las decade Te possibiliiesoffered by conemporary seel-glass echnology

convince more and more cliens who wan heir building o sand ou rom he crowd

So while he Yas Marina Hoel is a highligh o Waagner-Birorsquos recen work i w as cerainly nohe only projec wih his level o complexiyTe ldquoMyZeilrdquo building ensemble in Frankur amMain shares a wow acor o similar magniude

Viewed rom he side he rumpe-shaped un-nel in he ouer accedilade elicis houghs o a blackhole in space warping ime Te buildingrsquos shellis a prime example o how flex ible a seel-glass

srucure can be

Te lighness o ree-orm srucures is par-icularly palpable in roo srucures appearingo floa hanks o heir spherical design Whileoffering proecion rom wind and weaher heuse o ransparen glass also engenders a eelingo reedom Shopping in such an amosphere ispure deligh Tis opinion was shared by hoseresponsible or Berlinrsquos Sony Cener Te impres-sive roo consrucion made o seel glass andsel-cleaning eflon covered maerial has a ligh

ransmission o 50 which creaes a riendlyshopping experience

I has been a long road rom he radiional rooorms like gable fla or pich roos o ree-ormsrucures which are only limied by archiecsrsquoimaginaions A key acor in his developmenhas been combining seel and glass We canrsquo waio see he impressive designs he uure has insore or us991252

18 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

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So

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

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mdashEVO LUTIONNOT

REVOLUTIONmdash

Queen Elizabeth II Great Court

British Museum London

20 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2125

In developing seel and glass gridshell sruc-ures he connecing nodes presen a paricular

challenge he node design has o be developedand individually engineered according o

wheher he glass elemens have r iangula r orquadraic suraces he developmen processesand he soware used o program robos o cuhese nodes rom seel are coninually beingadaped and reined o boos eiciency a highdegree o auomaion is always involved in plan-ning and producion

he challenge in such demanding projecs isha oen no subcomponen resembles anoher

So mass producion is hen no longer an opionor eiher he nodes or he glass panels

Flexible soluions are also required when realis-ing ambiious geomeries Te glass panelsrsquoproven riangular orm guaranees precisely hisdegree o flexibiliy Neverheless a quadraic

991252 I was somehing new somehing unprece-dened in is field Te ree-orm canopy ha

has spanned he Queen Elizabeh II GreaCour a he Briish Museum since 2000 isregarded as he railblazer or his paricular ypeo consrucion Museum visiors are me byhe unamiliar specacle o a 6000 m983218 seel andglass domed roo consising o innumerableriangular elemens Tis marvel o modernarchiecure was only possible hanks o agradual echnological evoluion

A brie review Archiecure is enduring Some buildings appear o have been buil or eerniy

and lose none o heir ascinaion ndash archiecural jewels l ike he Egyp ian pyramid s he ColiseumGohic cahedrals or he Palace o VersaillesTese maserpieces sill make an impac on usoday Tey are enduring symbols o humancreaiviy Te wheels o ime used o urn moreslowly While Egypian emple archiecureevolved litle in 1000 years modern archiecureis subjec o a much greaer demand or develop-men Tis drives odayrsquos expecaions or origi-nal designs and proves ha echnical innovaionsare in greaer demand han ever beore Only

hey enable he realizaion o he cliensrsquo andarchiecsrsquo visions

So i is more abou evoluion han revoluionechnological leaps orward like hose incommunicaion echnology are o litle or noimporance Tere is a ar greaer emphasis onhe coninual developmen o exising soluions

As a long-sanding seel consrucion specialis wih many years o ex perience Waagner-Birohas accrued immense proprieary experise andknow-how enabling i o develop all manner

o ailor-made soluions Tis developmen isprojec driven I is he resul o each conracrsquosspecific challenges

Consrucion projecs ofen involve massive fig-ures Several hundred or even housands o onso seel or concree are se in place While suchfigures are ruly impressive hey only ell hal hesory I is only when our atenion is direced ohe deails ha he rue skill is exposed

Anchoring node s or he seel cable accedilhe DR Byen in Copenhagen

orm or even a combinaion o boh orsomeimes required or economic or ar

ural reasons I is in his very field ha WBiro is co-operaing wih he Vienna Uo echnology ogeher hey have beeing how such geomeries can be combiorm oher gridshell shapes Te accediladeing o he ldquoFesival Ciyrdquo in Dubai or eemployed no only riangular bu also glass elemens Te same soluion was uroo he ldquoCour Visconirdquo o he Louvre

Te DR Byen in Copenhagen a mediaplanned by Jean Nouvel was anoher e

venure Te bui lding is enveloped on aa rhomboidal gridshell Ataching he so he nodal srucure was jus one o hlenges Even more ingenious was he spdeveloped ensioning sysem o ensurehe end all he differen lenghs o seel

were subjec o he same ensi le orce991252

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

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991252You will find ambiious Waagner-Biro archi-ecural seel consrucions in many regions ohe world Te core markes are in Europe andhe Arab world In over 150 years he companyhas developed an ousanding repuaion cul-minaing in join venures wih highly renownedarchiecs and planners Te success o hesecooperaions is based on he ousanding qualiyo services and he developmen o individualengineering soluions or each projec991252

mdash SERVICE PORTFOLIO

Waagner-Birorsquos real srengh lies in high per or-mance in areas where ohers are already reachingheir limis

991252 Seel and glass building shells991252 Free-orm srucures and complex geomeries991252 Cable suppored srucures

eg pre-ensioned walls991252 Special soluions or challenging

aluminium accedilades

991252 Inegraed soluions involving addiionalmaerials like exile membranes

991252 Innovaive use o maerialslike load-bearing glass

991252 Soluions or complicaedramps sairs and mass

Te company also offers relevan service andmainenance opions (eg accedilade mainenancerenovaion modificaion)One secre o he success o Waagner-BiroSahlbau is is parnerships wih archiecs and

planning firms including

Architects Foser and Parners Jean NouvelSOM Murphy Jahn Asympoe Mario BelliniMassimiliano Fuksas KPF Wilkinson EyreHenning Larsen HOK Jerde ParnershipHeneghan Peng 3D Reid RMJM Hollein ecPlanning firms Arup Buro HappoldSchlaich Bergermann Parner Werner SobekIngenieure Fron Leonhard Andrauml undParner ec

mdash REFERENCES

Numerous reerences ates o Waagner-Birocompeence in seel consrucion Here is a boverview

991252 Reichsag dome BerlinGermany Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Sony Cener BerlinGermany Archiec Murphy Jahn

991252 Grea Cour Briish Museum LondonU Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Red Bull Hangar 7 SalzburgAusria Archiec Burgsaller

991252 Swiss Re ower (Dome) LondonUK Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Burj Khalia (Enrance pavilion) DubaiU Archiec Skidmore Owi ngs and Merri l

991252 Capial Gae Abu DhabiUAE Archiec RMJM Dubai

991252 Co-operaive Group (Corporaeheadquarers) MancheserUK

Archiec 3D Reid991252 Zloe arasy WarsawPoland

Archiec Te Jerde Parnership991252 Yas Island Marina Hoel Abu DhabiUA

Archiec Asympoe991252 Te Blob EindhovenNeherlands

Archiec Massimiliano Fuksas991252 Louvre ldquoCour Visconirdquo ParisFrance

Archiecs Mario Bell ini Rudy Riccioti991252 Baku Airpor erminal Azerbaijan

Archiec Arup991252 Bay Abdullah Kuwai

Archiec Marks Barfield Archiecs

mdash PORTRAIT mdash

22 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

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E

mdash AUSTRIA

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Saurn ower Leonard-Bernsein-Sraszlige 10

1220 Vienna Ausria +431288 44 0F +431288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ASERBAIDSCHAN

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Azerbaijan Branch Office

AZ1025 Baku ciy Khaayi di sric25 Sabi Orujov sree Aparmen 52 +431288 44 0F +341288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

mdash UNITED KINGDOM

Waagner Biro Ltd

Valian House 2nd Floor 4ndash10 Heneage Lane

London EC3A 5DQ Unied Kingdom +44207337 2240F +44207929 1880E inowaagnerbirocouk

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash DUBAI

Waagner Biro Stahlbau AG

Dubai Branch Office

Dubai Invesmen Park II Warehouse complexPO Box 8542 +97148855275F +97148855381

mdash POLAND

Waagner Biro Spoacutelka z oo

Al Armii Ludowej 26

00-609 Warsaw Poland +431288 44 0E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ABU DHABI

Waagner Biro Emirates Contracting L

Link Invesmen Building Plo 128 ndash Muroor (Office 102)PO Box 127687 Abu Dhabi ndash UAE +97124918818F +97124918819

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

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VISITWAAGNER-BIRO

COM

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WAAGNERBIROmdashmdashINSIGHT

STEEL GLASSSTRUCTURES

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991252 As a ouris in Paris you can hardly mhe Louvre I is a fixed iem on he agenevery visior o he meropolis on he SHowever a visi o he museum usuallya lenghy queue because probably he mmous museum in he world is normally

a he seams Bu now here is a plan InLouvre is scheduled o be no only biggalso more accessible As one o he manives he previously inaccessible ldquoCourinernal couryard was crowned wih ansive overhead ree-orm srucure undehe new Islamic Ar secion will be hou

was soon clear ha an archiecural ma was being creaed So he clien was ache quesion o who was capable o del

Cour VisconiLouvre Paris

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he finished aricle Paricularly as he road romis concepion o is opening in 2012 was a long

one (Noe sill incomplee a he magazinersquosediorial deadline in March 2012) Many hurdleshad o be cleared o reach he finish line Uli-maely a group o renowned companies uniedo ake up he challenge rom designers andplanners o he engineering and seel consruc-ion company Waagner-Biro Individualiss werediscouraged Raher a shared moto along helines o ldquoall or one and one or allrdquo was adopedo creae somehing special

eamwork is he decisive acor in a projec o

his magniude and complexiy Te successo he join venure depends on he clienarchiecs designers consulans engineers andmany more When he individual players arein harmony he whole becomes greaer hanhe sum o is pars Tis requires each pary oundersand engage in and implemen he oherpariesrsquo ideas I requires a grea deal o sensiiviyor each oherrsquos disciplines Cooperaion mus

be ighly inegraed A clear disi ncion be weenhe spheres o responsibiliy is simply no pos-sible For insance Waagner-Biro does no jus

ulfil echnical specificaions bu also conribuesis compeence during he developmen o hesrucure I is only when all he paricipaingcompanies cooperae closely ha an excepionalarchiecural monumen like he Cour Visconicanopy can be creaed

Ulimaely he main acor is he qualiy ohe parners and heir reliabiliy in providingsoluions Te cusomerrsquos high sandards mus

be refleced i n he work o all he companiesinvolved So only he bes o he bes will do

Renowned or is experise Waagner-Biro is ahighly regarded parner by he who-is-who oinernaional archiecs and engineers Teseinclude big name archiecs like AsympoeFoser and Parner Fuksas Jean Nouvel KPFMurphy Jahn SOM and ohers Te renownedengineers parnering Waagner-Biro include ArupBuro Happold Schlaich Bergermann Parner

Werner Sobek Ingenieure Fron Leonha rd Andrauml und Parne r

For he Louvre projec i was he highly ac-claimed Ialian designer Mario Bellini who

succeeded in creaing harmony beween hemodern srucure and he hisoric surround-ings he lying carpe which he seel-glasscanopy represens was an aesheic challenge

becau se he a rchie cs waned a ldquoso rdquo solu ionha did no conlic wih he exising sruc-ures Bu he challenge was also echnical be-cause he roo is consruced as a muli-layeredramework which by means o deliberaelychosen maerials mus reduce incidenal lighhis was o paricular imporance in a museum

where exhi bis mus be p roeced agains

excessive exposure o sunligh he 1800 orso individual glass elemens provided anoherchallenge bu no primarily due o heir largenumber I was more o a logisical challengeEach single elemen has unique dimensionsso each has a clearly deined locaion in heoverall srucure Consequenly each glasspanel had o be available on sie exacly whenrequired his demanded precise planningon he par o all projec parners and was agrea responsibiliy or he logisics companycharged wih he ask

Implemening such an excepional projecrequires eamwork o he highes order Teunderaking can be imagined as a huge machineI one o he many cogs regardless o is size is

jammed he whole machine grin ds o a sand-sill And ha is no an opion991252

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Te seel and glass consrucion covering heCour Visconi is reminiscen o a flying carpe

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Capital Gate Abu Dhabi ndash

No tower in the world

leans as much as this one

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991252 Cliens planners and engineers spend in-numerable hours on he meiculous planningo a new building is various uncionaliies

is echnical deails and he selecion o ap-propriae consrucion maerials hese are alldecisions ha are essenial or he subsequensuccess o he building Bu lersquos be honesFor he independen observer i is he lookha couns Firs impressions dicae whehera building will be regarded as somehing specialor jus anoher everyday srucure he keyplayer here is he archiec His vision leadshe way

oday here are pracically no limis o ha vision Where p reviously a visionar y design w asshelved as ineasible odayrsquos cuting edge ech-

nology enables o achieve he seemingly impos-sible Tis gives archiecs immense individualreedom a he design sage Consequenlymodern archiecure excels a geomericallyexcepional srucures and designs ha go ar

beyond excep ed norms Sandard erms likeldquoroo rdquo and ldquowallrdquo are becoming increasingly am-

biguous ake he Waagner-Biro buil ldquoBlobrdquo inEindhoven or example o see i is o recognizei Te name says i all Te Blobrsquos design eludes

mdash WHEN

GEOMETRY

BREAKS DOWNBOUNDARIESmdash

all atemps a caegorizaion Where dend Where does he roo sar Te smore reminiscen o an amorphous dro

ing weighlessly in space

Archiecural visions ofen carry a mess A narraive culminaing i n impressive gorms Te archiec o he Zloe arasya uurisic seel and glass shopping cenin he middle o Warsaw was inspired bgraphs o Warsawrsquos desrucion in 1945In paricular by he reeops on he sloning down o he Weichsel River wher

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rees were he only verical elemen in he ciyTe undulaing roo srucure represening

seven balls covered by a single cloh ress onseveral ree-like branched seel pillars Measuringapproximaely 10000 m983218 he geomericallycomplex gridshell orms a huge open space

Reconciling such a seel and glass srucure wihhe laws o physics requires cuting edge ech-nologies Te use o riangular grids has proveno be effecive as his shape gives he greaesflexibiliy or orming curves Waagner-Biro

based he seel nodesrsquo design on he echnolog yused previously or covering he Grea Cour a

he Briish Museum Te crucial skill however ishe specialised planning experise which employs3D-echnology Tis is where he engineerscome ino heir own Especially when suchexcepional geomeries are involved hey keepsigh o srucural analyses and ulimaely saeyI is only hrough his deailed work ha hearchiecural drafs someimes jus scribblings ona shee o paper are finalized or implemenaion

Saey is always he prime concern Tis shouldcome as welcome news o visiors o he Capial

Gae in Abu Dhabi According o he GuinnessBook o Records i is he ldquoWorldrsquos urhesleaning man-made owerrdquo I mocks graviy wihan awe-inspiring inclinaion o 18 degrees overis 160 meers Ta is 14 degrees more hanhe Leaning ower o Pisa Such an excepionalconsrucion projec naurally has is own arrayo challenges in erms o planning producionand consrucion Each o he owerrsquos glass panelsis shaped differenly jus as no wo corners orangles in he building are he same Te accediladeplanned and buil by Waagner-Biro consiss o

670 rhomboidal seel and glass elemens

We know ha excepional geomeries demandnohing bu he bes rom planners andengineers However he resul is well worhhe effor When a geomeric vision mees bril-lian engineers he resul has is own specificdynamic Te chances are high ha he building

wil l be nohing less han a symbol o humanachievemen991252

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991252ZLOTE TArSY AtrCTED

OVER 500000 VISITORS IN

THE FIRST WEEK991252

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mdash FLOATING VIRTUOSITYFROM THE

LIGHTNESSOF BEINGmdash

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991252 Seel is heavy We all know ha romence Seel is hard Ta is no secre eihseel is also exremely pliable a less obvqualiy Is pliabiliy is one o he essenin enabling seel srucures o be inricapieces o modern archiecure

Formula 1 racing car drivers can ates Tey pass underneah he gridshell sruo he Yas Marina Hoel on he new rac

in Abu Dhabi which hosed is firs Grin November 2009 Te hoelrsquos appearais disincive hanks o is ree-orm sruspanning a secion o he rack Te visihe New York archiecural firm Asympinspired by conceps like speed movemelegance and specacle Inspiraion soudirecly rom he ldquoarrdquo and ldquopoeryrdquo o mspor Te resul Te Waagner-Biro sesrucure envelopes he muli-sory ho

Te Yas Marina Hoel in Abu Dhabi ndash A specacular backdrop o Formula 1

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repilian skin Despie is 2800 onnes o seeland 5100 glass elemens i ress on only a ew

V-shaped suppors o achieve he buildingrsquosfiligree effec each o he 10700 differen rodshas o be as hin as possible No only is ap-pearance bu also he speed a which Waagner-Biro compleed his complex projec is rulyimpressive jus 18 monhs rom presening hearchiecural draf o compleion

Looking a he Yas Marina Hoel i is no sur-prising ha ree-orm srucures grew increasing-ly popular over he las decade Te possibiliiesoffered by conemporary seel-glass echnology

convince more and more cliens who wan heir building o sand ou rom he crowd

So while he Yas Marina Hoel is a highligh o Waagner-Birorsquos recen work i w as cerainly nohe only projec wih his level o complexiyTe ldquoMyZeilrdquo building ensemble in Frankur amMain shares a wow acor o similar magniude

Viewed rom he side he rumpe-shaped un-nel in he ouer accedilade elicis houghs o a blackhole in space warping ime Te buildingrsquos shellis a prime example o how flex ible a seel-glass

srucure can be

Te lighness o ree-orm srucures is par-icularly palpable in roo srucures appearingo floa hanks o heir spherical design Whileoffering proecion rom wind and weaher heuse o ransparen glass also engenders a eelingo reedom Shopping in such an amosphere ispure deligh Tis opinion was shared by hoseresponsible or Berlinrsquos Sony Cener Te impres-sive roo consrucion made o seel glass andsel-cleaning eflon covered maerial has a ligh

ransmission o 50 which creaes a riendlyshopping experience

I has been a long road rom he radiional rooorms like gable fla or pich roos o ree-ormsrucures which are only limied by archiecsrsquoimaginaions A key acor in his developmenhas been combining seel and glass We canrsquo waio see he impressive designs he uure has insore or us991252

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So

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mdashEVO LUTIONNOT

REVOLUTIONmdash

Queen Elizabeth II Great Court

British Museum London

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In developing seel and glass gridshell sruc-ures he connecing nodes presen a paricular

challenge he node design has o be developedand individually engineered according o

wheher he glass elemens have r iangula r orquadraic suraces he developmen processesand he soware used o program robos o cuhese nodes rom seel are coninually beingadaped and reined o boos eiciency a highdegree o auomaion is always involved in plan-ning and producion

he challenge in such demanding projecs isha oen no subcomponen resembles anoher

So mass producion is hen no longer an opionor eiher he nodes or he glass panels

Flexible soluions are also required when realis-ing ambiious geomeries Te glass panelsrsquoproven riangular orm guaranees precisely hisdegree o flexibiliy Neverheless a quadraic

991252 I was somehing new somehing unprece-dened in is field Te ree-orm canopy ha

has spanned he Queen Elizabeh II GreaCour a he Briish Museum since 2000 isregarded as he railblazer or his paricular ypeo consrucion Museum visiors are me byhe unamiliar specacle o a 6000 m983218 seel andglass domed roo consising o innumerableriangular elemens Tis marvel o modernarchiecure was only possible hanks o agradual echnological evoluion

A brie review Archiecure is enduring Some buildings appear o have been buil or eerniy

and lose none o heir ascinaion ndash archiecural jewels l ike he Egyp ian pyramid s he ColiseumGohic cahedrals or he Palace o VersaillesTese maserpieces sill make an impac on usoday Tey are enduring symbols o humancreaiviy Te wheels o ime used o urn moreslowly While Egypian emple archiecureevolved litle in 1000 years modern archiecureis subjec o a much greaer demand or develop-men Tis drives odayrsquos expecaions or origi-nal designs and proves ha echnical innovaionsare in greaer demand han ever beore Only

hey enable he realizaion o he cliensrsquo andarchiecsrsquo visions

So i is more abou evoluion han revoluionechnological leaps orward like hose incommunicaion echnology are o litle or noimporance Tere is a ar greaer emphasis onhe coninual developmen o exising soluions

As a long-sanding seel consrucion specialis wih many years o ex perience Waagner-Birohas accrued immense proprieary experise andknow-how enabling i o develop all manner

o ailor-made soluions Tis developmen isprojec driven I is he resul o each conracrsquosspecific challenges

Consrucion projecs ofen involve massive fig-ures Several hundred or even housands o onso seel or concree are se in place While suchfigures are ruly impressive hey only ell hal hesory I is only when our atenion is direced ohe deails ha he rue skill is exposed

Anchoring node s or he seel cable accedilhe DR Byen in Copenhagen

orm or even a combinaion o boh orsomeimes required or economic or ar

ural reasons I is in his very field ha WBiro is co-operaing wih he Vienna Uo echnology ogeher hey have beeing how such geomeries can be combiorm oher gridshell shapes Te accediladeing o he ldquoFesival Ciyrdquo in Dubai or eemployed no only riangular bu also glass elemens Te same soluion was uroo he ldquoCour Visconirdquo o he Louvre

Te DR Byen in Copenhagen a mediaplanned by Jean Nouvel was anoher e

venure Te bui lding is enveloped on aa rhomboidal gridshell Ataching he so he nodal srucure was jus one o hlenges Even more ingenious was he spdeveloped ensioning sysem o ensurehe end all he differen lenghs o seel

were subjec o he same ensi le orce991252

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2225

991252You will find ambiious Waagner-Biro archi-ecural seel consrucions in many regions ohe world Te core markes are in Europe andhe Arab world In over 150 years he companyhas developed an ousanding repuaion cul-minaing in join venures wih highly renownedarchiecs and planners Te success o hesecooperaions is based on he ousanding qualiyo services and he developmen o individualengineering soluions or each projec991252

mdash SERVICE PORTFOLIO

Waagner-Birorsquos real srengh lies in high per or-mance in areas where ohers are already reachingheir limis

991252 Seel and glass building shells991252 Free-orm srucures and complex geomeries991252 Cable suppored srucures

eg pre-ensioned walls991252 Special soluions or challenging

aluminium accedilades

991252 Inegraed soluions involving addiionalmaerials like exile membranes

991252 Innovaive use o maerialslike load-bearing glass

991252 Soluions or complicaedramps sairs and mass

Te company also offers relevan service andmainenance opions (eg accedilade mainenancerenovaion modificaion)One secre o he success o Waagner-BiroSahlbau is is parnerships wih archiecs and

planning firms including

Architects Foser and Parners Jean NouvelSOM Murphy Jahn Asympoe Mario BelliniMassimiliano Fuksas KPF Wilkinson EyreHenning Larsen HOK Jerde ParnershipHeneghan Peng 3D Reid RMJM Hollein ecPlanning firms Arup Buro HappoldSchlaich Bergermann Parner Werner SobekIngenieure Fron Leonhard Andrauml undParner ec

mdash REFERENCES

Numerous reerences ates o Waagner-Birocompeence in seel consrucion Here is a boverview

991252 Reichsag dome BerlinGermany Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Sony Cener BerlinGermany Archiec Murphy Jahn

991252 Grea Cour Briish Museum LondonU Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Red Bull Hangar 7 SalzburgAusria Archiec Burgsaller

991252 Swiss Re ower (Dome) LondonUK Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Burj Khalia (Enrance pavilion) DubaiU Archiec Skidmore Owi ngs and Merri l

991252 Capial Gae Abu DhabiUAE Archiec RMJM Dubai

991252 Co-operaive Group (Corporaeheadquarers) MancheserUK

Archiec 3D Reid991252 Zloe arasy WarsawPoland

Archiec Te Jerde Parnership991252 Yas Island Marina Hoel Abu DhabiUA

Archiec Asympoe991252 Te Blob EindhovenNeherlands

Archiec Massimiliano Fuksas991252 Louvre ldquoCour Visconirdquo ParisFrance

Archiecs Mario Bell ini Rudy Riccioti991252 Baku Airpor erminal Azerbaijan

Archiec Arup991252 Bay Abdullah Kuwai

Archiec Marks Barfield Archiecs

mdash PORTRAIT mdash

22 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2325

E

mdash AUSTRIA

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Saurn ower Leonard-Bernsein-Sraszlige 10

1220 Vienna Ausria +431288 44 0F +431288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ASERBAIDSCHAN

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Azerbaijan Branch Office

AZ1025 Baku ciy Khaayi di sric25 Sabi Orujov sree Aparmen 52 +431288 44 0F +341288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

mdash UNITED KINGDOM

Waagner Biro Ltd

Valian House 2nd Floor 4ndash10 Heneage Lane

London EC3A 5DQ Unied Kingdom +44207337 2240F +44207929 1880E inowaagnerbirocouk

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash DUBAI

Waagner Biro Stahlbau AG

Dubai Branch Office

Dubai Invesmen Park II Warehouse complexPO Box 8542 +97148855275F +97148855381

mdash POLAND

Waagner Biro Spoacutelka z oo

Al Armii Ludowej 26

00-609 Warsaw Poland +431288 44 0E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ABU DHABI

Waagner Biro Emirates Contracting L

Link Invesmen Building Plo 128 ndash Muroor (Office 102)PO Box 127687 Abu Dhabi ndash UAE +97124918818F +97124918819

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2425

VISITWAAGNER-BIRO

COM

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

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WAAGNERBIROmdashmdashINSIGHT

STEEL GLASSSTRUCTURES

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he finished aricle Paricularly as he road romis concepion o is opening in 2012 was a long

one (Noe sill incomplee a he magazinersquosediorial deadline in March 2012) Many hurdleshad o be cleared o reach he finish line Uli-maely a group o renowned companies uniedo ake up he challenge rom designers andplanners o he engineering and seel consruc-ion company Waagner-Biro Individualiss werediscouraged Raher a shared moto along helines o ldquoall or one and one or allrdquo was adopedo creae somehing special

eamwork is he decisive acor in a projec o

his magniude and complexiy Te successo he join venure depends on he clienarchiecs designers consulans engineers andmany more When he individual players arein harmony he whole becomes greaer hanhe sum o is pars Tis requires each pary oundersand engage in and implemen he oherpariesrsquo ideas I requires a grea deal o sensiiviyor each oherrsquos disciplines Cooperaion mus

be ighly inegraed A clear disi ncion be weenhe spheres o responsibiliy is simply no pos-sible For insance Waagner-Biro does no jus

ulfil echnical specificaions bu also conribuesis compeence during he developmen o hesrucure I is only when all he paricipaingcompanies cooperae closely ha an excepionalarchiecural monumen like he Cour Visconicanopy can be creaed

Ulimaely he main acor is he qualiy ohe parners and heir reliabiliy in providingsoluions Te cusomerrsquos high sandards mus

be refleced i n he work o all he companiesinvolved So only he bes o he bes will do

Renowned or is experise Waagner-Biro is ahighly regarded parner by he who-is-who oinernaional archiecs and engineers Teseinclude big name archiecs like AsympoeFoser and Parner Fuksas Jean Nouvel KPFMurphy Jahn SOM and ohers Te renownedengineers parnering Waagner-Biro include ArupBuro Happold Schlaich Bergermann Parner

Werner Sobek Ingenieure Fron Leonha rd Andrauml und Parne r

For he Louvre projec i was he highly ac-claimed Ialian designer Mario Bellini who

succeeded in creaing harmony beween hemodern srucure and he hisoric surround-ings he lying carpe which he seel-glasscanopy represens was an aesheic challenge

becau se he a rchie cs waned a ldquoso rdquo solu ionha did no conlic wih he exising sruc-ures Bu he challenge was also echnical be-cause he roo is consruced as a muli-layeredramework which by means o deliberaelychosen maerials mus reduce incidenal lighhis was o paricular imporance in a museum

where exhi bis mus be p roeced agains

excessive exposure o sunligh he 1800 orso individual glass elemens provided anoherchallenge bu no primarily due o heir largenumber I was more o a logisical challengeEach single elemen has unique dimensionsso each has a clearly deined locaion in heoverall srucure Consequenly each glasspanel had o be available on sie exacly whenrequired his demanded precise planningon he par o all projec parners and was agrea responsibiliy or he logisics companycharged wih he ask

Implemening such an excepional projecrequires eamwork o he highes order Teunderaking can be imagined as a huge machineI one o he many cogs regardless o is size is

jammed he whole machine grin ds o a sand-sill And ha is no an opion991252

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Te seel and glass consrucion covering heCour Visconi is reminiscen o a flying carpe

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

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Capital Gate Abu Dhabi ndash

No tower in the world

leans as much as this one

12 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1325

991252 Cliens planners and engineers spend in-numerable hours on he meiculous planningo a new building is various uncionaliies

is echnical deails and he selecion o ap-propriae consrucion maerials hese are alldecisions ha are essenial or he subsequensuccess o he building Bu lersquos be honesFor he independen observer i is he lookha couns Firs impressions dicae whehera building will be regarded as somehing specialor jus anoher everyday srucure he keyplayer here is he archiec His vision leadshe way

oday here are pracically no limis o ha vision Where p reviously a visionar y design w asshelved as ineasible odayrsquos cuting edge ech-

nology enables o achieve he seemingly impos-sible Tis gives archiecs immense individualreedom a he design sage Consequenlymodern archiecure excels a geomericallyexcepional srucures and designs ha go ar

beyond excep ed norms Sandard erms likeldquoroo rdquo and ldquowallrdquo are becoming increasingly am-

biguous ake he Waagner-Biro buil ldquoBlobrdquo inEindhoven or example o see i is o recognizei Te name says i all Te Blobrsquos design eludes

mdash WHEN

GEOMETRY

BREAKS DOWNBOUNDARIESmdash

all atemps a caegorizaion Where dend Where does he roo sar Te smore reminiscen o an amorphous dro

ing weighlessly in space

Archiecural visions ofen carry a mess A narraive culminaing i n impressive gorms Te archiec o he Zloe arasya uurisic seel and glass shopping cenin he middle o Warsaw was inspired bgraphs o Warsawrsquos desrucion in 1945In paricular by he reeops on he sloning down o he Weichsel River wher

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1425

rees were he only verical elemen in he ciyTe undulaing roo srucure represening

seven balls covered by a single cloh ress onseveral ree-like branched seel pillars Measuringapproximaely 10000 m983218 he geomericallycomplex gridshell orms a huge open space

Reconciling such a seel and glass srucure wihhe laws o physics requires cuting edge ech-nologies Te use o riangular grids has proveno be effecive as his shape gives he greaesflexibiliy or orming curves Waagner-Biro

based he seel nodesrsquo design on he echnolog yused previously or covering he Grea Cour a

he Briish Museum Te crucial skill however ishe specialised planning experise which employs3D-echnology Tis is where he engineerscome ino heir own Especially when suchexcepional geomeries are involved hey keepsigh o srucural analyses and ulimaely saeyI is only hrough his deailed work ha hearchiecural drafs someimes jus scribblings ona shee o paper are finalized or implemenaion

Saey is always he prime concern Tis shouldcome as welcome news o visiors o he Capial

Gae in Abu Dhabi According o he GuinnessBook o Records i is he ldquoWorldrsquos urhesleaning man-made owerrdquo I mocks graviy wihan awe-inspiring inclinaion o 18 degrees overis 160 meers Ta is 14 degrees more hanhe Leaning ower o Pisa Such an excepionalconsrucion projec naurally has is own arrayo challenges in erms o planning producionand consrucion Each o he owerrsquos glass panelsis shaped differenly jus as no wo corners orangles in he building are he same Te accediladeplanned and buil by Waagner-Biro consiss o

670 rhomboidal seel and glass elemens

We know ha excepional geomeries demandnohing bu he bes rom planners andengineers However he resul is well worhhe effor When a geomeric vision mees bril-lian engineers he resul has is own specificdynamic Te chances are high ha he building

wil l be nohing less han a symbol o humanachievemen991252

14 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

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httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1525

991252ZLOTE TArSY AtrCTED

OVER 500000 VISITORS IN

THE FIRST WEEK991252

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1625

mdash FLOATING VIRTUOSITYFROM THE

LIGHTNESSOF BEINGmdash

16 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

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991252 Seel is heavy We all know ha romence Seel is hard Ta is no secre eihseel is also exremely pliable a less obvqualiy Is pliabiliy is one o he essenin enabling seel srucures o be inricapieces o modern archiecure

Formula 1 racing car drivers can ates Tey pass underneah he gridshell sruo he Yas Marina Hoel on he new rac

in Abu Dhabi which hosed is firs Grin November 2009 Te hoelrsquos appearais disincive hanks o is ree-orm sruspanning a secion o he rack Te visihe New York archiecural firm Asympinspired by conceps like speed movemelegance and specacle Inspiraion soudirecly rom he ldquoarrdquo and ldquopoeryrdquo o mspor Te resul Te Waagner-Biro sesrucure envelopes he muli-sory ho

Te Yas Marina Hoel in Abu Dhabi ndash A specacular backdrop o Formula 1

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1825

repilian skin Despie is 2800 onnes o seeland 5100 glass elemens i ress on only a ew

V-shaped suppors o achieve he buildingrsquosfiligree effec each o he 10700 differen rodshas o be as hin as possible No only is ap-pearance bu also he speed a which Waagner-Biro compleed his complex projec is rulyimpressive jus 18 monhs rom presening hearchiecural draf o compleion

Looking a he Yas Marina Hoel i is no sur-prising ha ree-orm srucures grew increasing-ly popular over he las decade Te possibiliiesoffered by conemporary seel-glass echnology

convince more and more cliens who wan heir building o sand ou rom he crowd

So while he Yas Marina Hoel is a highligh o Waagner-Birorsquos recen work i w as cerainly nohe only projec wih his level o complexiyTe ldquoMyZeilrdquo building ensemble in Frankur amMain shares a wow acor o similar magniude

Viewed rom he side he rumpe-shaped un-nel in he ouer accedilade elicis houghs o a blackhole in space warping ime Te buildingrsquos shellis a prime example o how flex ible a seel-glass

srucure can be

Te lighness o ree-orm srucures is par-icularly palpable in roo srucures appearingo floa hanks o heir spherical design Whileoffering proecion rom wind and weaher heuse o ransparen glass also engenders a eelingo reedom Shopping in such an amosphere ispure deligh Tis opinion was shared by hoseresponsible or Berlinrsquos Sony Cener Te impres-sive roo consrucion made o seel glass andsel-cleaning eflon covered maerial has a ligh

ransmission o 50 which creaes a riendlyshopping experience

I has been a long road rom he radiional rooorms like gable fla or pich roos o ree-ormsrucures which are only limied by archiecsrsquoimaginaions A key acor in his developmenhas been combining seel and glass We canrsquo waio see he impressive designs he uure has insore or us991252

18 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

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So

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

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mdashEVO LUTIONNOT

REVOLUTIONmdash

Queen Elizabeth II Great Court

British Museum London

20 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2125

In developing seel and glass gridshell sruc-ures he connecing nodes presen a paricular

challenge he node design has o be developedand individually engineered according o

wheher he glass elemens have r iangula r orquadraic suraces he developmen processesand he soware used o program robos o cuhese nodes rom seel are coninually beingadaped and reined o boos eiciency a highdegree o auomaion is always involved in plan-ning and producion

he challenge in such demanding projecs isha oen no subcomponen resembles anoher

So mass producion is hen no longer an opionor eiher he nodes or he glass panels

Flexible soluions are also required when realis-ing ambiious geomeries Te glass panelsrsquoproven riangular orm guaranees precisely hisdegree o flexibiliy Neverheless a quadraic

991252 I was somehing new somehing unprece-dened in is field Te ree-orm canopy ha

has spanned he Queen Elizabeh II GreaCour a he Briish Museum since 2000 isregarded as he railblazer or his paricular ypeo consrucion Museum visiors are me byhe unamiliar specacle o a 6000 m983218 seel andglass domed roo consising o innumerableriangular elemens Tis marvel o modernarchiecure was only possible hanks o agradual echnological evoluion

A brie review Archiecure is enduring Some buildings appear o have been buil or eerniy

and lose none o heir ascinaion ndash archiecural jewels l ike he Egyp ian pyramid s he ColiseumGohic cahedrals or he Palace o VersaillesTese maserpieces sill make an impac on usoday Tey are enduring symbols o humancreaiviy Te wheels o ime used o urn moreslowly While Egypian emple archiecureevolved litle in 1000 years modern archiecureis subjec o a much greaer demand or develop-men Tis drives odayrsquos expecaions or origi-nal designs and proves ha echnical innovaionsare in greaer demand han ever beore Only

hey enable he realizaion o he cliensrsquo andarchiecsrsquo visions

So i is more abou evoluion han revoluionechnological leaps orward like hose incommunicaion echnology are o litle or noimporance Tere is a ar greaer emphasis onhe coninual developmen o exising soluions

As a long-sanding seel consrucion specialis wih many years o ex perience Waagner-Birohas accrued immense proprieary experise andknow-how enabling i o develop all manner

o ailor-made soluions Tis developmen isprojec driven I is he resul o each conracrsquosspecific challenges

Consrucion projecs ofen involve massive fig-ures Several hundred or even housands o onso seel or concree are se in place While suchfigures are ruly impressive hey only ell hal hesory I is only when our atenion is direced ohe deails ha he rue skill is exposed

Anchoring node s or he seel cable accedilhe DR Byen in Copenhagen

orm or even a combinaion o boh orsomeimes required or economic or ar

ural reasons I is in his very field ha WBiro is co-operaing wih he Vienna Uo echnology ogeher hey have beeing how such geomeries can be combiorm oher gridshell shapes Te accediladeing o he ldquoFesival Ciyrdquo in Dubai or eemployed no only riangular bu also glass elemens Te same soluion was uroo he ldquoCour Visconirdquo o he Louvre

Te DR Byen in Copenhagen a mediaplanned by Jean Nouvel was anoher e

venure Te bui lding is enveloped on aa rhomboidal gridshell Ataching he so he nodal srucure was jus one o hlenges Even more ingenious was he spdeveloped ensioning sysem o ensurehe end all he differen lenghs o seel

were subjec o he same ensi le orce991252

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991252You will find ambiious Waagner-Biro archi-ecural seel consrucions in many regions ohe world Te core markes are in Europe andhe Arab world In over 150 years he companyhas developed an ousanding repuaion cul-minaing in join venures wih highly renownedarchiecs and planners Te success o hesecooperaions is based on he ousanding qualiyo services and he developmen o individualengineering soluions or each projec991252

mdash SERVICE PORTFOLIO

Waagner-Birorsquos real srengh lies in high per or-mance in areas where ohers are already reachingheir limis

991252 Seel and glass building shells991252 Free-orm srucures and complex geomeries991252 Cable suppored srucures

eg pre-ensioned walls991252 Special soluions or challenging

aluminium accedilades

991252 Inegraed soluions involving addiionalmaerials like exile membranes

991252 Innovaive use o maerialslike load-bearing glass

991252 Soluions or complicaedramps sairs and mass

Te company also offers relevan service andmainenance opions (eg accedilade mainenancerenovaion modificaion)One secre o he success o Waagner-BiroSahlbau is is parnerships wih archiecs and

planning firms including

Architects Foser and Parners Jean NouvelSOM Murphy Jahn Asympoe Mario BelliniMassimiliano Fuksas KPF Wilkinson EyreHenning Larsen HOK Jerde ParnershipHeneghan Peng 3D Reid RMJM Hollein ecPlanning firms Arup Buro HappoldSchlaich Bergermann Parner Werner SobekIngenieure Fron Leonhard Andrauml undParner ec

mdash REFERENCES

Numerous reerences ates o Waagner-Birocompeence in seel consrucion Here is a boverview

991252 Reichsag dome BerlinGermany Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Sony Cener BerlinGermany Archiec Murphy Jahn

991252 Grea Cour Briish Museum LondonU Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Red Bull Hangar 7 SalzburgAusria Archiec Burgsaller

991252 Swiss Re ower (Dome) LondonUK Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Burj Khalia (Enrance pavilion) DubaiU Archiec Skidmore Owi ngs and Merri l

991252 Capial Gae Abu DhabiUAE Archiec RMJM Dubai

991252 Co-operaive Group (Corporaeheadquarers) MancheserUK

Archiec 3D Reid991252 Zloe arasy WarsawPoland

Archiec Te Jerde Parnership991252 Yas Island Marina Hoel Abu DhabiUA

Archiec Asympoe991252 Te Blob EindhovenNeherlands

Archiec Massimiliano Fuksas991252 Louvre ldquoCour Visconirdquo ParisFrance

Archiecs Mario Bell ini Rudy Riccioti991252 Baku Airpor erminal Azerbaijan

Archiec Arup991252 Bay Abdullah Kuwai

Archiec Marks Barfield Archiecs

mdash PORTRAIT mdash

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E

mdash AUSTRIA

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Saurn ower Leonard-Bernsein-Sraszlige 10

1220 Vienna Ausria +431288 44 0F +431288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ASERBAIDSCHAN

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Azerbaijan Branch Office

AZ1025 Baku ciy Khaayi di sric25 Sabi Orujov sree Aparmen 52 +431288 44 0F +341288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

mdash UNITED KINGDOM

Waagner Biro Ltd

Valian House 2nd Floor 4ndash10 Heneage Lane

London EC3A 5DQ Unied Kingdom +44207337 2240F +44207929 1880E inowaagnerbirocouk

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash DUBAI

Waagner Biro Stahlbau AG

Dubai Branch Office

Dubai Invesmen Park II Warehouse complexPO Box 8542 +97148855275F +97148855381

mdash POLAND

Waagner Biro Spoacutelka z oo

Al Armii Ludowej 26

00-609 Warsaw Poland +431288 44 0E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ABU DHABI

Waagner Biro Emirates Contracting L

Link Invesmen Building Plo 128 ndash Muroor (Office 102)PO Box 127687 Abu Dhabi ndash UAE +97124918818F +97124918819

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

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VISITWAAGNER-BIRO

COM

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WAAGNERBIROmdashmdashINSIGHT

STEEL GLASSSTRUCTURES

Page 11: Image Steel Glass11

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Te seel and glass consrucion covering heCour Visconi is reminiscen o a flying carpe

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1225

Capital Gate Abu Dhabi ndash

No tower in the world

leans as much as this one

12 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1325

991252 Cliens planners and engineers spend in-numerable hours on he meiculous planningo a new building is various uncionaliies

is echnical deails and he selecion o ap-propriae consrucion maerials hese are alldecisions ha are essenial or he subsequensuccess o he building Bu lersquos be honesFor he independen observer i is he lookha couns Firs impressions dicae whehera building will be regarded as somehing specialor jus anoher everyday srucure he keyplayer here is he archiec His vision leadshe way

oday here are pracically no limis o ha vision Where p reviously a visionar y design w asshelved as ineasible odayrsquos cuting edge ech-

nology enables o achieve he seemingly impos-sible Tis gives archiecs immense individualreedom a he design sage Consequenlymodern archiecure excels a geomericallyexcepional srucures and designs ha go ar

beyond excep ed norms Sandard erms likeldquoroo rdquo and ldquowallrdquo are becoming increasingly am-

biguous ake he Waagner-Biro buil ldquoBlobrdquo inEindhoven or example o see i is o recognizei Te name says i all Te Blobrsquos design eludes

mdash WHEN

GEOMETRY

BREAKS DOWNBOUNDARIESmdash

all atemps a caegorizaion Where dend Where does he roo sar Te smore reminiscen o an amorphous dro

ing weighlessly in space

Archiecural visions ofen carry a mess A narraive culminaing i n impressive gorms Te archiec o he Zloe arasya uurisic seel and glass shopping cenin he middle o Warsaw was inspired bgraphs o Warsawrsquos desrucion in 1945In paricular by he reeops on he sloning down o he Weichsel River wher

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1425

rees were he only verical elemen in he ciyTe undulaing roo srucure represening

seven balls covered by a single cloh ress onseveral ree-like branched seel pillars Measuringapproximaely 10000 m983218 he geomericallycomplex gridshell orms a huge open space

Reconciling such a seel and glass srucure wihhe laws o physics requires cuting edge ech-nologies Te use o riangular grids has proveno be effecive as his shape gives he greaesflexibiliy or orming curves Waagner-Biro

based he seel nodesrsquo design on he echnolog yused previously or covering he Grea Cour a

he Briish Museum Te crucial skill however ishe specialised planning experise which employs3D-echnology Tis is where he engineerscome ino heir own Especially when suchexcepional geomeries are involved hey keepsigh o srucural analyses and ulimaely saeyI is only hrough his deailed work ha hearchiecural drafs someimes jus scribblings ona shee o paper are finalized or implemenaion

Saey is always he prime concern Tis shouldcome as welcome news o visiors o he Capial

Gae in Abu Dhabi According o he GuinnessBook o Records i is he ldquoWorldrsquos urhesleaning man-made owerrdquo I mocks graviy wihan awe-inspiring inclinaion o 18 degrees overis 160 meers Ta is 14 degrees more hanhe Leaning ower o Pisa Such an excepionalconsrucion projec naurally has is own arrayo challenges in erms o planning producionand consrucion Each o he owerrsquos glass panelsis shaped differenly jus as no wo corners orangles in he building are he same Te accediladeplanned and buil by Waagner-Biro consiss o

670 rhomboidal seel and glass elemens

We know ha excepional geomeries demandnohing bu he bes rom planners andengineers However he resul is well worhhe effor When a geomeric vision mees bril-lian engineers he resul has is own specificdynamic Te chances are high ha he building

wil l be nohing less han a symbol o humanachievemen991252

14 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1525

991252ZLOTE TArSY AtrCTED

OVER 500000 VISITORS IN

THE FIRST WEEK991252

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1625

mdash FLOATING VIRTUOSITYFROM THE

LIGHTNESSOF BEINGmdash

16 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1725

991252 Seel is heavy We all know ha romence Seel is hard Ta is no secre eihseel is also exremely pliable a less obvqualiy Is pliabiliy is one o he essenin enabling seel srucures o be inricapieces o modern archiecure

Formula 1 racing car drivers can ates Tey pass underneah he gridshell sruo he Yas Marina Hoel on he new rac

in Abu Dhabi which hosed is firs Grin November 2009 Te hoelrsquos appearais disincive hanks o is ree-orm sruspanning a secion o he rack Te visihe New York archiecural firm Asympinspired by conceps like speed movemelegance and specacle Inspiraion soudirecly rom he ldquoarrdquo and ldquopoeryrdquo o mspor Te resul Te Waagner-Biro sesrucure envelopes he muli-sory ho

Te Yas Marina Hoel in Abu Dhabi ndash A specacular backdrop o Formula 1

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1825

repilian skin Despie is 2800 onnes o seeland 5100 glass elemens i ress on only a ew

V-shaped suppors o achieve he buildingrsquosfiligree effec each o he 10700 differen rodshas o be as hin as possible No only is ap-pearance bu also he speed a which Waagner-Biro compleed his complex projec is rulyimpressive jus 18 monhs rom presening hearchiecural draf o compleion

Looking a he Yas Marina Hoel i is no sur-prising ha ree-orm srucures grew increasing-ly popular over he las decade Te possibiliiesoffered by conemporary seel-glass echnology

convince more and more cliens who wan heir building o sand ou rom he crowd

So while he Yas Marina Hoel is a highligh o Waagner-Birorsquos recen work i w as cerainly nohe only projec wih his level o complexiyTe ldquoMyZeilrdquo building ensemble in Frankur amMain shares a wow acor o similar magniude

Viewed rom he side he rumpe-shaped un-nel in he ouer accedilade elicis houghs o a blackhole in space warping ime Te buildingrsquos shellis a prime example o how flex ible a seel-glass

srucure can be

Te lighness o ree-orm srucures is par-icularly palpable in roo srucures appearingo floa hanks o heir spherical design Whileoffering proecion rom wind and weaher heuse o ransparen glass also engenders a eelingo reedom Shopping in such an amosphere ispure deligh Tis opinion was shared by hoseresponsible or Berlinrsquos Sony Cener Te impres-sive roo consrucion made o seel glass andsel-cleaning eflon covered maerial has a ligh

ransmission o 50 which creaes a riendlyshopping experience

I has been a long road rom he radiional rooorms like gable fla or pich roos o ree-ormsrucures which are only limied by archiecsrsquoimaginaions A key acor in his developmenhas been combining seel and glass We canrsquo waio see he impressive designs he uure has insore or us991252

18 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1925

So

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2025

mdashEVO LUTIONNOT

REVOLUTIONmdash

Queen Elizabeth II Great Court

British Museum London

20 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2125

In developing seel and glass gridshell sruc-ures he connecing nodes presen a paricular

challenge he node design has o be developedand individually engineered according o

wheher he glass elemens have r iangula r orquadraic suraces he developmen processesand he soware used o program robos o cuhese nodes rom seel are coninually beingadaped and reined o boos eiciency a highdegree o auomaion is always involved in plan-ning and producion

he challenge in such demanding projecs isha oen no subcomponen resembles anoher

So mass producion is hen no longer an opionor eiher he nodes or he glass panels

Flexible soluions are also required when realis-ing ambiious geomeries Te glass panelsrsquoproven riangular orm guaranees precisely hisdegree o flexibiliy Neverheless a quadraic

991252 I was somehing new somehing unprece-dened in is field Te ree-orm canopy ha

has spanned he Queen Elizabeh II GreaCour a he Briish Museum since 2000 isregarded as he railblazer or his paricular ypeo consrucion Museum visiors are me byhe unamiliar specacle o a 6000 m983218 seel andglass domed roo consising o innumerableriangular elemens Tis marvel o modernarchiecure was only possible hanks o agradual echnological evoluion

A brie review Archiecure is enduring Some buildings appear o have been buil or eerniy

and lose none o heir ascinaion ndash archiecural jewels l ike he Egyp ian pyramid s he ColiseumGohic cahedrals or he Palace o VersaillesTese maserpieces sill make an impac on usoday Tey are enduring symbols o humancreaiviy Te wheels o ime used o urn moreslowly While Egypian emple archiecureevolved litle in 1000 years modern archiecureis subjec o a much greaer demand or develop-men Tis drives odayrsquos expecaions or origi-nal designs and proves ha echnical innovaionsare in greaer demand han ever beore Only

hey enable he realizaion o he cliensrsquo andarchiecsrsquo visions

So i is more abou evoluion han revoluionechnological leaps orward like hose incommunicaion echnology are o litle or noimporance Tere is a ar greaer emphasis onhe coninual developmen o exising soluions

As a long-sanding seel consrucion specialis wih many years o ex perience Waagner-Birohas accrued immense proprieary experise andknow-how enabling i o develop all manner

o ailor-made soluions Tis developmen isprojec driven I is he resul o each conracrsquosspecific challenges

Consrucion projecs ofen involve massive fig-ures Several hundred or even housands o onso seel or concree are se in place While suchfigures are ruly impressive hey only ell hal hesory I is only when our atenion is direced ohe deails ha he rue skill is exposed

Anchoring node s or he seel cable accedilhe DR Byen in Copenhagen

orm or even a combinaion o boh orsomeimes required or economic or ar

ural reasons I is in his very field ha WBiro is co-operaing wih he Vienna Uo echnology ogeher hey have beeing how such geomeries can be combiorm oher gridshell shapes Te accediladeing o he ldquoFesival Ciyrdquo in Dubai or eemployed no only riangular bu also glass elemens Te same soluion was uroo he ldquoCour Visconirdquo o he Louvre

Te DR Byen in Copenhagen a mediaplanned by Jean Nouvel was anoher e

venure Te bui lding is enveloped on aa rhomboidal gridshell Ataching he so he nodal srucure was jus one o hlenges Even more ingenious was he spdeveloped ensioning sysem o ensurehe end all he differen lenghs o seel

were subjec o he same ensi le orce991252

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

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httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2225

991252You will find ambiious Waagner-Biro archi-ecural seel consrucions in many regions ohe world Te core markes are in Europe andhe Arab world In over 150 years he companyhas developed an ousanding repuaion cul-minaing in join venures wih highly renownedarchiecs and planners Te success o hesecooperaions is based on he ousanding qualiyo services and he developmen o individualengineering soluions or each projec991252

mdash SERVICE PORTFOLIO

Waagner-Birorsquos real srengh lies in high per or-mance in areas where ohers are already reachingheir limis

991252 Seel and glass building shells991252 Free-orm srucures and complex geomeries991252 Cable suppored srucures

eg pre-ensioned walls991252 Special soluions or challenging

aluminium accedilades

991252 Inegraed soluions involving addiionalmaerials like exile membranes

991252 Innovaive use o maerialslike load-bearing glass

991252 Soluions or complicaedramps sairs and mass

Te company also offers relevan service andmainenance opions (eg accedilade mainenancerenovaion modificaion)One secre o he success o Waagner-BiroSahlbau is is parnerships wih archiecs and

planning firms including

Architects Foser and Parners Jean NouvelSOM Murphy Jahn Asympoe Mario BelliniMassimiliano Fuksas KPF Wilkinson EyreHenning Larsen HOK Jerde ParnershipHeneghan Peng 3D Reid RMJM Hollein ecPlanning firms Arup Buro HappoldSchlaich Bergermann Parner Werner SobekIngenieure Fron Leonhard Andrauml undParner ec

mdash REFERENCES

Numerous reerences ates o Waagner-Birocompeence in seel consrucion Here is a boverview

991252 Reichsag dome BerlinGermany Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Sony Cener BerlinGermany Archiec Murphy Jahn

991252 Grea Cour Briish Museum LondonU Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Red Bull Hangar 7 SalzburgAusria Archiec Burgsaller

991252 Swiss Re ower (Dome) LondonUK Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Burj Khalia (Enrance pavilion) DubaiU Archiec Skidmore Owi ngs and Merri l

991252 Capial Gae Abu DhabiUAE Archiec RMJM Dubai

991252 Co-operaive Group (Corporaeheadquarers) MancheserUK

Archiec 3D Reid991252 Zloe arasy WarsawPoland

Archiec Te Jerde Parnership991252 Yas Island Marina Hoel Abu DhabiUA

Archiec Asympoe991252 Te Blob EindhovenNeherlands

Archiec Massimiliano Fuksas991252 Louvre ldquoCour Visconirdquo ParisFrance

Archiecs Mario Bell ini Rudy Riccioti991252 Baku Airpor erminal Azerbaijan

Archiec Arup991252 Bay Abdullah Kuwai

Archiec Marks Barfield Archiecs

mdash PORTRAIT mdash

22 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2325

E

mdash AUSTRIA

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Saurn ower Leonard-Bernsein-Sraszlige 10

1220 Vienna Ausria +431288 44 0F +431288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ASERBAIDSCHAN

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Azerbaijan Branch Office

AZ1025 Baku ciy Khaayi di sric25 Sabi Orujov sree Aparmen 52 +431288 44 0F +341288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

mdash UNITED KINGDOM

Waagner Biro Ltd

Valian House 2nd Floor 4ndash10 Heneage Lane

London EC3A 5DQ Unied Kingdom +44207337 2240F +44207929 1880E inowaagnerbirocouk

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash DUBAI

Waagner Biro Stahlbau AG

Dubai Branch Office

Dubai Invesmen Park II Warehouse complexPO Box 8542 +97148855275F +97148855381

mdash POLAND

Waagner Biro Spoacutelka z oo

Al Armii Ludowej 26

00-609 Warsaw Poland +431288 44 0E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ABU DHABI

Waagner Biro Emirates Contracting L

Link Invesmen Building Plo 128 ndash Muroor (Office 102)PO Box 127687 Abu Dhabi ndash UAE +97124918818F +97124918819

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2425

VISITWAAGNER-BIRO

COM

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

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WAAGNERBIROmdashmdashINSIGHT

STEEL GLASSSTRUCTURES

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Capital Gate Abu Dhabi ndash

No tower in the world

leans as much as this one

12 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

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httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1325

991252 Cliens planners and engineers spend in-numerable hours on he meiculous planningo a new building is various uncionaliies

is echnical deails and he selecion o ap-propriae consrucion maerials hese are alldecisions ha are essenial or he subsequensuccess o he building Bu lersquos be honesFor he independen observer i is he lookha couns Firs impressions dicae whehera building will be regarded as somehing specialor jus anoher everyday srucure he keyplayer here is he archiec His vision leadshe way

oday here are pracically no limis o ha vision Where p reviously a visionar y design w asshelved as ineasible odayrsquos cuting edge ech-

nology enables o achieve he seemingly impos-sible Tis gives archiecs immense individualreedom a he design sage Consequenlymodern archiecure excels a geomericallyexcepional srucures and designs ha go ar

beyond excep ed norms Sandard erms likeldquoroo rdquo and ldquowallrdquo are becoming increasingly am-

biguous ake he Waagner-Biro buil ldquoBlobrdquo inEindhoven or example o see i is o recognizei Te name says i all Te Blobrsquos design eludes

mdash WHEN

GEOMETRY

BREAKS DOWNBOUNDARIESmdash

all atemps a caegorizaion Where dend Where does he roo sar Te smore reminiscen o an amorphous dro

ing weighlessly in space

Archiecural visions ofen carry a mess A narraive culminaing i n impressive gorms Te archiec o he Zloe arasya uurisic seel and glass shopping cenin he middle o Warsaw was inspired bgraphs o Warsawrsquos desrucion in 1945In paricular by he reeops on he sloning down o he Weichsel River wher

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1425

rees were he only verical elemen in he ciyTe undulaing roo srucure represening

seven balls covered by a single cloh ress onseveral ree-like branched seel pillars Measuringapproximaely 10000 m983218 he geomericallycomplex gridshell orms a huge open space

Reconciling such a seel and glass srucure wihhe laws o physics requires cuting edge ech-nologies Te use o riangular grids has proveno be effecive as his shape gives he greaesflexibiliy or orming curves Waagner-Biro

based he seel nodesrsquo design on he echnolog yused previously or covering he Grea Cour a

he Briish Museum Te crucial skill however ishe specialised planning experise which employs3D-echnology Tis is where he engineerscome ino heir own Especially when suchexcepional geomeries are involved hey keepsigh o srucural analyses and ulimaely saeyI is only hrough his deailed work ha hearchiecural drafs someimes jus scribblings ona shee o paper are finalized or implemenaion

Saey is always he prime concern Tis shouldcome as welcome news o visiors o he Capial

Gae in Abu Dhabi According o he GuinnessBook o Records i is he ldquoWorldrsquos urhesleaning man-made owerrdquo I mocks graviy wihan awe-inspiring inclinaion o 18 degrees overis 160 meers Ta is 14 degrees more hanhe Leaning ower o Pisa Such an excepionalconsrucion projec naurally has is own arrayo challenges in erms o planning producionand consrucion Each o he owerrsquos glass panelsis shaped differenly jus as no wo corners orangles in he building are he same Te accediladeplanned and buil by Waagner-Biro consiss o

670 rhomboidal seel and glass elemens

We know ha excepional geomeries demandnohing bu he bes rom planners andengineers However he resul is well worhhe effor When a geomeric vision mees bril-lian engineers he resul has is own specificdynamic Te chances are high ha he building

wil l be nohing less han a symbol o humanachievemen991252

14 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1525

991252ZLOTE TArSY AtrCTED

OVER 500000 VISITORS IN

THE FIRST WEEK991252

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1625

mdash FLOATING VIRTUOSITYFROM THE

LIGHTNESSOF BEINGmdash

16 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

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991252 Seel is heavy We all know ha romence Seel is hard Ta is no secre eihseel is also exremely pliable a less obvqualiy Is pliabiliy is one o he essenin enabling seel srucures o be inricapieces o modern archiecure

Formula 1 racing car drivers can ates Tey pass underneah he gridshell sruo he Yas Marina Hoel on he new rac

in Abu Dhabi which hosed is firs Grin November 2009 Te hoelrsquos appearais disincive hanks o is ree-orm sruspanning a secion o he rack Te visihe New York archiecural firm Asympinspired by conceps like speed movemelegance and specacle Inspiraion soudirecly rom he ldquoarrdquo and ldquopoeryrdquo o mspor Te resul Te Waagner-Biro sesrucure envelopes he muli-sory ho

Te Yas Marina Hoel in Abu Dhabi ndash A specacular backdrop o Formula 1

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1825

repilian skin Despie is 2800 onnes o seeland 5100 glass elemens i ress on only a ew

V-shaped suppors o achieve he buildingrsquosfiligree effec each o he 10700 differen rodshas o be as hin as possible No only is ap-pearance bu also he speed a which Waagner-Biro compleed his complex projec is rulyimpressive jus 18 monhs rom presening hearchiecural draf o compleion

Looking a he Yas Marina Hoel i is no sur-prising ha ree-orm srucures grew increasing-ly popular over he las decade Te possibiliiesoffered by conemporary seel-glass echnology

convince more and more cliens who wan heir building o sand ou rom he crowd

So while he Yas Marina Hoel is a highligh o Waagner-Birorsquos recen work i w as cerainly nohe only projec wih his level o complexiyTe ldquoMyZeilrdquo building ensemble in Frankur amMain shares a wow acor o similar magniude

Viewed rom he side he rumpe-shaped un-nel in he ouer accedilade elicis houghs o a blackhole in space warping ime Te buildingrsquos shellis a prime example o how flex ible a seel-glass

srucure can be

Te lighness o ree-orm srucures is par-icularly palpable in roo srucures appearingo floa hanks o heir spherical design Whileoffering proecion rom wind and weaher heuse o ransparen glass also engenders a eelingo reedom Shopping in such an amosphere ispure deligh Tis opinion was shared by hoseresponsible or Berlinrsquos Sony Cener Te impres-sive roo consrucion made o seel glass andsel-cleaning eflon covered maerial has a ligh

ransmission o 50 which creaes a riendlyshopping experience

I has been a long road rom he radiional rooorms like gable fla or pich roos o ree-ormsrucures which are only limied by archiecsrsquoimaginaions A key acor in his developmenhas been combining seel and glass We canrsquo waio see he impressive designs he uure has insore or us991252

18 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

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So

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

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mdashEVO LUTIONNOT

REVOLUTIONmdash

Queen Elizabeth II Great Court

British Museum London

20 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

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httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2125

In developing seel and glass gridshell sruc-ures he connecing nodes presen a paricular

challenge he node design has o be developedand individually engineered according o

wheher he glass elemens have r iangula r orquadraic suraces he developmen processesand he soware used o program robos o cuhese nodes rom seel are coninually beingadaped and reined o boos eiciency a highdegree o auomaion is always involved in plan-ning and producion

he challenge in such demanding projecs isha oen no subcomponen resembles anoher

So mass producion is hen no longer an opionor eiher he nodes or he glass panels

Flexible soluions are also required when realis-ing ambiious geomeries Te glass panelsrsquoproven riangular orm guaranees precisely hisdegree o flexibiliy Neverheless a quadraic

991252 I was somehing new somehing unprece-dened in is field Te ree-orm canopy ha

has spanned he Queen Elizabeh II GreaCour a he Briish Museum since 2000 isregarded as he railblazer or his paricular ypeo consrucion Museum visiors are me byhe unamiliar specacle o a 6000 m983218 seel andglass domed roo consising o innumerableriangular elemens Tis marvel o modernarchiecure was only possible hanks o agradual echnological evoluion

A brie review Archiecure is enduring Some buildings appear o have been buil or eerniy

and lose none o heir ascinaion ndash archiecural jewels l ike he Egyp ian pyramid s he ColiseumGohic cahedrals or he Palace o VersaillesTese maserpieces sill make an impac on usoday Tey are enduring symbols o humancreaiviy Te wheels o ime used o urn moreslowly While Egypian emple archiecureevolved litle in 1000 years modern archiecureis subjec o a much greaer demand or develop-men Tis drives odayrsquos expecaions or origi-nal designs and proves ha echnical innovaionsare in greaer demand han ever beore Only

hey enable he realizaion o he cliensrsquo andarchiecsrsquo visions

So i is more abou evoluion han revoluionechnological leaps orward like hose incommunicaion echnology are o litle or noimporance Tere is a ar greaer emphasis onhe coninual developmen o exising soluions

As a long-sanding seel consrucion specialis wih many years o ex perience Waagner-Birohas accrued immense proprieary experise andknow-how enabling i o develop all manner

o ailor-made soluions Tis developmen isprojec driven I is he resul o each conracrsquosspecific challenges

Consrucion projecs ofen involve massive fig-ures Several hundred or even housands o onso seel or concree are se in place While suchfigures are ruly impressive hey only ell hal hesory I is only when our atenion is direced ohe deails ha he rue skill is exposed

Anchoring node s or he seel cable accedilhe DR Byen in Copenhagen

orm or even a combinaion o boh orsomeimes required or economic or ar

ural reasons I is in his very field ha WBiro is co-operaing wih he Vienna Uo echnology ogeher hey have beeing how such geomeries can be combiorm oher gridshell shapes Te accediladeing o he ldquoFesival Ciyrdquo in Dubai or eemployed no only riangular bu also glass elemens Te same soluion was uroo he ldquoCour Visconirdquo o he Louvre

Te DR Byen in Copenhagen a mediaplanned by Jean Nouvel was anoher e

venure Te bui lding is enveloped on aa rhomboidal gridshell Ataching he so he nodal srucure was jus one o hlenges Even more ingenious was he spdeveloped ensioning sysem o ensurehe end all he differen lenghs o seel

were subjec o he same ensi le orce991252

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2225

991252You will find ambiious Waagner-Biro archi-ecural seel consrucions in many regions ohe world Te core markes are in Europe andhe Arab world In over 150 years he companyhas developed an ousanding repuaion cul-minaing in join venures wih highly renownedarchiecs and planners Te success o hesecooperaions is based on he ousanding qualiyo services and he developmen o individualengineering soluions or each projec991252

mdash SERVICE PORTFOLIO

Waagner-Birorsquos real srengh lies in high per or-mance in areas where ohers are already reachingheir limis

991252 Seel and glass building shells991252 Free-orm srucures and complex geomeries991252 Cable suppored srucures

eg pre-ensioned walls991252 Special soluions or challenging

aluminium accedilades

991252 Inegraed soluions involving addiionalmaerials like exile membranes

991252 Innovaive use o maerialslike load-bearing glass

991252 Soluions or complicaedramps sairs and mass

Te company also offers relevan service andmainenance opions (eg accedilade mainenancerenovaion modificaion)One secre o he success o Waagner-BiroSahlbau is is parnerships wih archiecs and

planning firms including

Architects Foser and Parners Jean NouvelSOM Murphy Jahn Asympoe Mario BelliniMassimiliano Fuksas KPF Wilkinson EyreHenning Larsen HOK Jerde ParnershipHeneghan Peng 3D Reid RMJM Hollein ecPlanning firms Arup Buro HappoldSchlaich Bergermann Parner Werner SobekIngenieure Fron Leonhard Andrauml undParner ec

mdash REFERENCES

Numerous reerences ates o Waagner-Birocompeence in seel consrucion Here is a boverview

991252 Reichsag dome BerlinGermany Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Sony Cener BerlinGermany Archiec Murphy Jahn

991252 Grea Cour Briish Museum LondonU Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Red Bull Hangar 7 SalzburgAusria Archiec Burgsaller

991252 Swiss Re ower (Dome) LondonUK Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Burj Khalia (Enrance pavilion) DubaiU Archiec Skidmore Owi ngs and Merri l

991252 Capial Gae Abu DhabiUAE Archiec RMJM Dubai

991252 Co-operaive Group (Corporaeheadquarers) MancheserUK

Archiec 3D Reid991252 Zloe arasy WarsawPoland

Archiec Te Jerde Parnership991252 Yas Island Marina Hoel Abu DhabiUA

Archiec Asympoe991252 Te Blob EindhovenNeherlands

Archiec Massimiliano Fuksas991252 Louvre ldquoCour Visconirdquo ParisFrance

Archiecs Mario Bell ini Rudy Riccioti991252 Baku Airpor erminal Azerbaijan

Archiec Arup991252 Bay Abdullah Kuwai

Archiec Marks Barfield Archiecs

mdash PORTRAIT mdash

22 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2325

E

mdash AUSTRIA

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Saurn ower Leonard-Bernsein-Sraszlige 10

1220 Vienna Ausria +431288 44 0F +431288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ASERBAIDSCHAN

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Azerbaijan Branch Office

AZ1025 Baku ciy Khaayi di sric25 Sabi Orujov sree Aparmen 52 +431288 44 0F +341288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

mdash UNITED KINGDOM

Waagner Biro Ltd

Valian House 2nd Floor 4ndash10 Heneage Lane

London EC3A 5DQ Unied Kingdom +44207337 2240F +44207929 1880E inowaagnerbirocouk

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash DUBAI

Waagner Biro Stahlbau AG

Dubai Branch Office

Dubai Invesmen Park II Warehouse complexPO Box 8542 +97148855275F +97148855381

mdash POLAND

Waagner Biro Spoacutelka z oo

Al Armii Ludowej 26

00-609 Warsaw Poland +431288 44 0E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ABU DHABI

Waagner Biro Emirates Contracting L

Link Invesmen Building Plo 128 ndash Muroor (Office 102)PO Box 127687 Abu Dhabi ndash UAE +97124918818F +97124918819

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2425

VISITWAAGNER-BIRO

COM

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2525

WAAGNERBIROmdashmdashINSIGHT

STEEL GLASSSTRUCTURES

Page 13: Image Steel Glass11

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991252 Cliens planners and engineers spend in-numerable hours on he meiculous planningo a new building is various uncionaliies

is echnical deails and he selecion o ap-propriae consrucion maerials hese are alldecisions ha are essenial or he subsequensuccess o he building Bu lersquos be honesFor he independen observer i is he lookha couns Firs impressions dicae whehera building will be regarded as somehing specialor jus anoher everyday srucure he keyplayer here is he archiec His vision leadshe way

oday here are pracically no limis o ha vision Where p reviously a visionar y design w asshelved as ineasible odayrsquos cuting edge ech-

nology enables o achieve he seemingly impos-sible Tis gives archiecs immense individualreedom a he design sage Consequenlymodern archiecure excels a geomericallyexcepional srucures and designs ha go ar

beyond excep ed norms Sandard erms likeldquoroo rdquo and ldquowallrdquo are becoming increasingly am-

biguous ake he Waagner-Biro buil ldquoBlobrdquo inEindhoven or example o see i is o recognizei Te name says i all Te Blobrsquos design eludes

mdash WHEN

GEOMETRY

BREAKS DOWNBOUNDARIESmdash

all atemps a caegorizaion Where dend Where does he roo sar Te smore reminiscen o an amorphous dro

ing weighlessly in space

Archiecural visions ofen carry a mess A narraive culminaing i n impressive gorms Te archiec o he Zloe arasya uurisic seel and glass shopping cenin he middle o Warsaw was inspired bgraphs o Warsawrsquos desrucion in 1945In paricular by he reeops on he sloning down o he Weichsel River wher

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1425

rees were he only verical elemen in he ciyTe undulaing roo srucure represening

seven balls covered by a single cloh ress onseveral ree-like branched seel pillars Measuringapproximaely 10000 m983218 he geomericallycomplex gridshell orms a huge open space

Reconciling such a seel and glass srucure wihhe laws o physics requires cuting edge ech-nologies Te use o riangular grids has proveno be effecive as his shape gives he greaesflexibiliy or orming curves Waagner-Biro

based he seel nodesrsquo design on he echnolog yused previously or covering he Grea Cour a

he Briish Museum Te crucial skill however ishe specialised planning experise which employs3D-echnology Tis is where he engineerscome ino heir own Especially when suchexcepional geomeries are involved hey keepsigh o srucural analyses and ulimaely saeyI is only hrough his deailed work ha hearchiecural drafs someimes jus scribblings ona shee o paper are finalized or implemenaion

Saey is always he prime concern Tis shouldcome as welcome news o visiors o he Capial

Gae in Abu Dhabi According o he GuinnessBook o Records i is he ldquoWorldrsquos urhesleaning man-made owerrdquo I mocks graviy wihan awe-inspiring inclinaion o 18 degrees overis 160 meers Ta is 14 degrees more hanhe Leaning ower o Pisa Such an excepionalconsrucion projec naurally has is own arrayo challenges in erms o planning producionand consrucion Each o he owerrsquos glass panelsis shaped differenly jus as no wo corners orangles in he building are he same Te accediladeplanned and buil by Waagner-Biro consiss o

670 rhomboidal seel and glass elemens

We know ha excepional geomeries demandnohing bu he bes rom planners andengineers However he resul is well worhhe effor When a geomeric vision mees bril-lian engineers he resul has is own specificdynamic Te chances are high ha he building

wil l be nohing less han a symbol o humanachievemen991252

14 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1525

991252ZLOTE TArSY AtrCTED

OVER 500000 VISITORS IN

THE FIRST WEEK991252

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1625

mdash FLOATING VIRTUOSITYFROM THE

LIGHTNESSOF BEINGmdash

16 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1725

991252 Seel is heavy We all know ha romence Seel is hard Ta is no secre eihseel is also exremely pliable a less obvqualiy Is pliabiliy is one o he essenin enabling seel srucures o be inricapieces o modern archiecure

Formula 1 racing car drivers can ates Tey pass underneah he gridshell sruo he Yas Marina Hoel on he new rac

in Abu Dhabi which hosed is firs Grin November 2009 Te hoelrsquos appearais disincive hanks o is ree-orm sruspanning a secion o he rack Te visihe New York archiecural firm Asympinspired by conceps like speed movemelegance and specacle Inspiraion soudirecly rom he ldquoarrdquo and ldquopoeryrdquo o mspor Te resul Te Waagner-Biro sesrucure envelopes he muli-sory ho

Te Yas Marina Hoel in Abu Dhabi ndash A specacular backdrop o Formula 1

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1825

repilian skin Despie is 2800 onnes o seeland 5100 glass elemens i ress on only a ew

V-shaped suppors o achieve he buildingrsquosfiligree effec each o he 10700 differen rodshas o be as hin as possible No only is ap-pearance bu also he speed a which Waagner-Biro compleed his complex projec is rulyimpressive jus 18 monhs rom presening hearchiecural draf o compleion

Looking a he Yas Marina Hoel i is no sur-prising ha ree-orm srucures grew increasing-ly popular over he las decade Te possibiliiesoffered by conemporary seel-glass echnology

convince more and more cliens who wan heir building o sand ou rom he crowd

So while he Yas Marina Hoel is a highligh o Waagner-Birorsquos recen work i w as cerainly nohe only projec wih his level o complexiyTe ldquoMyZeilrdquo building ensemble in Frankur amMain shares a wow acor o similar magniude

Viewed rom he side he rumpe-shaped un-nel in he ouer accedilade elicis houghs o a blackhole in space warping ime Te buildingrsquos shellis a prime example o how flex ible a seel-glass

srucure can be

Te lighness o ree-orm srucures is par-icularly palpable in roo srucures appearingo floa hanks o heir spherical design Whileoffering proecion rom wind and weaher heuse o ransparen glass also engenders a eelingo reedom Shopping in such an amosphere ispure deligh Tis opinion was shared by hoseresponsible or Berlinrsquos Sony Cener Te impres-sive roo consrucion made o seel glass andsel-cleaning eflon covered maerial has a ligh

ransmission o 50 which creaes a riendlyshopping experience

I has been a long road rom he radiional rooorms like gable fla or pich roos o ree-ormsrucures which are only limied by archiecsrsquoimaginaions A key acor in his developmenhas been combining seel and glass We canrsquo waio see he impressive designs he uure has insore or us991252

18 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

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So

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2025

mdashEVO LUTIONNOT

REVOLUTIONmdash

Queen Elizabeth II Great Court

British Museum London

20 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2125

In developing seel and glass gridshell sruc-ures he connecing nodes presen a paricular

challenge he node design has o be developedand individually engineered according o

wheher he glass elemens have r iangula r orquadraic suraces he developmen processesand he soware used o program robos o cuhese nodes rom seel are coninually beingadaped and reined o boos eiciency a highdegree o auomaion is always involved in plan-ning and producion

he challenge in such demanding projecs isha oen no subcomponen resembles anoher

So mass producion is hen no longer an opionor eiher he nodes or he glass panels

Flexible soluions are also required when realis-ing ambiious geomeries Te glass panelsrsquoproven riangular orm guaranees precisely hisdegree o flexibiliy Neverheless a quadraic

991252 I was somehing new somehing unprece-dened in is field Te ree-orm canopy ha

has spanned he Queen Elizabeh II GreaCour a he Briish Museum since 2000 isregarded as he railblazer or his paricular ypeo consrucion Museum visiors are me byhe unamiliar specacle o a 6000 m983218 seel andglass domed roo consising o innumerableriangular elemens Tis marvel o modernarchiecure was only possible hanks o agradual echnological evoluion

A brie review Archiecure is enduring Some buildings appear o have been buil or eerniy

and lose none o heir ascinaion ndash archiecural jewels l ike he Egyp ian pyramid s he ColiseumGohic cahedrals or he Palace o VersaillesTese maserpieces sill make an impac on usoday Tey are enduring symbols o humancreaiviy Te wheels o ime used o urn moreslowly While Egypian emple archiecureevolved litle in 1000 years modern archiecureis subjec o a much greaer demand or develop-men Tis drives odayrsquos expecaions or origi-nal designs and proves ha echnical innovaionsare in greaer demand han ever beore Only

hey enable he realizaion o he cliensrsquo andarchiecsrsquo visions

So i is more abou evoluion han revoluionechnological leaps orward like hose incommunicaion echnology are o litle or noimporance Tere is a ar greaer emphasis onhe coninual developmen o exising soluions

As a long-sanding seel consrucion specialis wih many years o ex perience Waagner-Birohas accrued immense proprieary experise andknow-how enabling i o develop all manner

o ailor-made soluions Tis developmen isprojec driven I is he resul o each conracrsquosspecific challenges

Consrucion projecs ofen involve massive fig-ures Several hundred or even housands o onso seel or concree are se in place While suchfigures are ruly impressive hey only ell hal hesory I is only when our atenion is direced ohe deails ha he rue skill is exposed

Anchoring node s or he seel cable accedilhe DR Byen in Copenhagen

orm or even a combinaion o boh orsomeimes required or economic or ar

ural reasons I is in his very field ha WBiro is co-operaing wih he Vienna Uo echnology ogeher hey have beeing how such geomeries can be combiorm oher gridshell shapes Te accediladeing o he ldquoFesival Ciyrdquo in Dubai or eemployed no only riangular bu also glass elemens Te same soluion was uroo he ldquoCour Visconirdquo o he Louvre

Te DR Byen in Copenhagen a mediaplanned by Jean Nouvel was anoher e

venure Te bui lding is enveloped on aa rhomboidal gridshell Ataching he so he nodal srucure was jus one o hlenges Even more ingenious was he spdeveloped ensioning sysem o ensurehe end all he differen lenghs o seel

were subjec o he same ensi le orce991252

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2225

991252You will find ambiious Waagner-Biro archi-ecural seel consrucions in many regions ohe world Te core markes are in Europe andhe Arab world In over 150 years he companyhas developed an ousanding repuaion cul-minaing in join venures wih highly renownedarchiecs and planners Te success o hesecooperaions is based on he ousanding qualiyo services and he developmen o individualengineering soluions or each projec991252

mdash SERVICE PORTFOLIO

Waagner-Birorsquos real srengh lies in high per or-mance in areas where ohers are already reachingheir limis

991252 Seel and glass building shells991252 Free-orm srucures and complex geomeries991252 Cable suppored srucures

eg pre-ensioned walls991252 Special soluions or challenging

aluminium accedilades

991252 Inegraed soluions involving addiionalmaerials like exile membranes

991252 Innovaive use o maerialslike load-bearing glass

991252 Soluions or complicaedramps sairs and mass

Te company also offers relevan service andmainenance opions (eg accedilade mainenancerenovaion modificaion)One secre o he success o Waagner-BiroSahlbau is is parnerships wih archiecs and

planning firms including

Architects Foser and Parners Jean NouvelSOM Murphy Jahn Asympoe Mario BelliniMassimiliano Fuksas KPF Wilkinson EyreHenning Larsen HOK Jerde ParnershipHeneghan Peng 3D Reid RMJM Hollein ecPlanning firms Arup Buro HappoldSchlaich Bergermann Parner Werner SobekIngenieure Fron Leonhard Andrauml undParner ec

mdash REFERENCES

Numerous reerences ates o Waagner-Birocompeence in seel consrucion Here is a boverview

991252 Reichsag dome BerlinGermany Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Sony Cener BerlinGermany Archiec Murphy Jahn

991252 Grea Cour Briish Museum LondonU Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Red Bull Hangar 7 SalzburgAusria Archiec Burgsaller

991252 Swiss Re ower (Dome) LondonUK Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Burj Khalia (Enrance pavilion) DubaiU Archiec Skidmore Owi ngs and Merri l

991252 Capial Gae Abu DhabiUAE Archiec RMJM Dubai

991252 Co-operaive Group (Corporaeheadquarers) MancheserUK

Archiec 3D Reid991252 Zloe arasy WarsawPoland

Archiec Te Jerde Parnership991252 Yas Island Marina Hoel Abu DhabiUA

Archiec Asympoe991252 Te Blob EindhovenNeherlands

Archiec Massimiliano Fuksas991252 Louvre ldquoCour Visconirdquo ParisFrance

Archiecs Mario Bell ini Rudy Riccioti991252 Baku Airpor erminal Azerbaijan

Archiec Arup991252 Bay Abdullah Kuwai

Archiec Marks Barfield Archiecs

mdash PORTRAIT mdash

22 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2325

E

mdash AUSTRIA

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Saurn ower Leonard-Bernsein-Sraszlige 10

1220 Vienna Ausria +431288 44 0F +431288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ASERBAIDSCHAN

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Azerbaijan Branch Office

AZ1025 Baku ciy Khaayi di sric25 Sabi Orujov sree Aparmen 52 +431288 44 0F +341288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

mdash UNITED KINGDOM

Waagner Biro Ltd

Valian House 2nd Floor 4ndash10 Heneage Lane

London EC3A 5DQ Unied Kingdom +44207337 2240F +44207929 1880E inowaagnerbirocouk

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash DUBAI

Waagner Biro Stahlbau AG

Dubai Branch Office

Dubai Invesmen Park II Warehouse complexPO Box 8542 +97148855275F +97148855381

mdash POLAND

Waagner Biro Spoacutelka z oo

Al Armii Ludowej 26

00-609 Warsaw Poland +431288 44 0E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ABU DHABI

Waagner Biro Emirates Contracting L

Link Invesmen Building Plo 128 ndash Muroor (Office 102)PO Box 127687 Abu Dhabi ndash UAE +97124918818F +97124918819

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2425

VISITWAAGNER-BIRO

COM

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

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WAAGNERBIROmdashmdashINSIGHT

STEEL GLASSSTRUCTURES

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rees were he only verical elemen in he ciyTe undulaing roo srucure represening

seven balls covered by a single cloh ress onseveral ree-like branched seel pillars Measuringapproximaely 10000 m983218 he geomericallycomplex gridshell orms a huge open space

Reconciling such a seel and glass srucure wihhe laws o physics requires cuting edge ech-nologies Te use o riangular grids has proveno be effecive as his shape gives he greaesflexibiliy or orming curves Waagner-Biro

based he seel nodesrsquo design on he echnolog yused previously or covering he Grea Cour a

he Briish Museum Te crucial skill however ishe specialised planning experise which employs3D-echnology Tis is where he engineerscome ino heir own Especially when suchexcepional geomeries are involved hey keepsigh o srucural analyses and ulimaely saeyI is only hrough his deailed work ha hearchiecural drafs someimes jus scribblings ona shee o paper are finalized or implemenaion

Saey is always he prime concern Tis shouldcome as welcome news o visiors o he Capial

Gae in Abu Dhabi According o he GuinnessBook o Records i is he ldquoWorldrsquos urhesleaning man-made owerrdquo I mocks graviy wihan awe-inspiring inclinaion o 18 degrees overis 160 meers Ta is 14 degrees more hanhe Leaning ower o Pisa Such an excepionalconsrucion projec naurally has is own arrayo challenges in erms o planning producionand consrucion Each o he owerrsquos glass panelsis shaped differenly jus as no wo corners orangles in he building are he same Te accediladeplanned and buil by Waagner-Biro consiss o

670 rhomboidal seel and glass elemens

We know ha excepional geomeries demandnohing bu he bes rom planners andengineers However he resul is well worhhe effor When a geomeric vision mees bril-lian engineers he resul has is own specificdynamic Te chances are high ha he building

wil l be nohing less han a symbol o humanachievemen991252

14 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1525

991252ZLOTE TArSY AtrCTED

OVER 500000 VISITORS IN

THE FIRST WEEK991252

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1625

mdash FLOATING VIRTUOSITYFROM THE

LIGHTNESSOF BEINGmdash

16 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1725

991252 Seel is heavy We all know ha romence Seel is hard Ta is no secre eihseel is also exremely pliable a less obvqualiy Is pliabiliy is one o he essenin enabling seel srucures o be inricapieces o modern archiecure

Formula 1 racing car drivers can ates Tey pass underneah he gridshell sruo he Yas Marina Hoel on he new rac

in Abu Dhabi which hosed is firs Grin November 2009 Te hoelrsquos appearais disincive hanks o is ree-orm sruspanning a secion o he rack Te visihe New York archiecural firm Asympinspired by conceps like speed movemelegance and specacle Inspiraion soudirecly rom he ldquoarrdquo and ldquopoeryrdquo o mspor Te resul Te Waagner-Biro sesrucure envelopes he muli-sory ho

Te Yas Marina Hoel in Abu Dhabi ndash A specacular backdrop o Formula 1

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1825

repilian skin Despie is 2800 onnes o seeland 5100 glass elemens i ress on only a ew

V-shaped suppors o achieve he buildingrsquosfiligree effec each o he 10700 differen rodshas o be as hin as possible No only is ap-pearance bu also he speed a which Waagner-Biro compleed his complex projec is rulyimpressive jus 18 monhs rom presening hearchiecural draf o compleion

Looking a he Yas Marina Hoel i is no sur-prising ha ree-orm srucures grew increasing-ly popular over he las decade Te possibiliiesoffered by conemporary seel-glass echnology

convince more and more cliens who wan heir building o sand ou rom he crowd

So while he Yas Marina Hoel is a highligh o Waagner-Birorsquos recen work i w as cerainly nohe only projec wih his level o complexiyTe ldquoMyZeilrdquo building ensemble in Frankur amMain shares a wow acor o similar magniude

Viewed rom he side he rumpe-shaped un-nel in he ouer accedilade elicis houghs o a blackhole in space warping ime Te buildingrsquos shellis a prime example o how flex ible a seel-glass

srucure can be

Te lighness o ree-orm srucures is par-icularly palpable in roo srucures appearingo floa hanks o heir spherical design Whileoffering proecion rom wind and weaher heuse o ransparen glass also engenders a eelingo reedom Shopping in such an amosphere ispure deligh Tis opinion was shared by hoseresponsible or Berlinrsquos Sony Cener Te impres-sive roo consrucion made o seel glass andsel-cleaning eflon covered maerial has a ligh

ransmission o 50 which creaes a riendlyshopping experience

I has been a long road rom he radiional rooorms like gable fla or pich roos o ree-ormsrucures which are only limied by archiecsrsquoimaginaions A key acor in his developmenhas been combining seel and glass We canrsquo waio see he impressive designs he uure has insore or us991252

18 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1925

So

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2025

mdashEVO LUTIONNOT

REVOLUTIONmdash

Queen Elizabeth II Great Court

British Museum London

20 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2125

In developing seel and glass gridshell sruc-ures he connecing nodes presen a paricular

challenge he node design has o be developedand individually engineered according o

wheher he glass elemens have r iangula r orquadraic suraces he developmen processesand he soware used o program robos o cuhese nodes rom seel are coninually beingadaped and reined o boos eiciency a highdegree o auomaion is always involved in plan-ning and producion

he challenge in such demanding projecs isha oen no subcomponen resembles anoher

So mass producion is hen no longer an opionor eiher he nodes or he glass panels

Flexible soluions are also required when realis-ing ambiious geomeries Te glass panelsrsquoproven riangular orm guaranees precisely hisdegree o flexibiliy Neverheless a quadraic

991252 I was somehing new somehing unprece-dened in is field Te ree-orm canopy ha

has spanned he Queen Elizabeh II GreaCour a he Briish Museum since 2000 isregarded as he railblazer or his paricular ypeo consrucion Museum visiors are me byhe unamiliar specacle o a 6000 m983218 seel andglass domed roo consising o innumerableriangular elemens Tis marvel o modernarchiecure was only possible hanks o agradual echnological evoluion

A brie review Archiecure is enduring Some buildings appear o have been buil or eerniy

and lose none o heir ascinaion ndash archiecural jewels l ike he Egyp ian pyramid s he ColiseumGohic cahedrals or he Palace o VersaillesTese maserpieces sill make an impac on usoday Tey are enduring symbols o humancreaiviy Te wheels o ime used o urn moreslowly While Egypian emple archiecureevolved litle in 1000 years modern archiecureis subjec o a much greaer demand or develop-men Tis drives odayrsquos expecaions or origi-nal designs and proves ha echnical innovaionsare in greaer demand han ever beore Only

hey enable he realizaion o he cliensrsquo andarchiecsrsquo visions

So i is more abou evoluion han revoluionechnological leaps orward like hose incommunicaion echnology are o litle or noimporance Tere is a ar greaer emphasis onhe coninual developmen o exising soluions

As a long-sanding seel consrucion specialis wih many years o ex perience Waagner-Birohas accrued immense proprieary experise andknow-how enabling i o develop all manner

o ailor-made soluions Tis developmen isprojec driven I is he resul o each conracrsquosspecific challenges

Consrucion projecs ofen involve massive fig-ures Several hundred or even housands o onso seel or concree are se in place While suchfigures are ruly impressive hey only ell hal hesory I is only when our atenion is direced ohe deails ha he rue skill is exposed

Anchoring node s or he seel cable accedilhe DR Byen in Copenhagen

orm or even a combinaion o boh orsomeimes required or economic or ar

ural reasons I is in his very field ha WBiro is co-operaing wih he Vienna Uo echnology ogeher hey have beeing how such geomeries can be combiorm oher gridshell shapes Te accediladeing o he ldquoFesival Ciyrdquo in Dubai or eemployed no only riangular bu also glass elemens Te same soluion was uroo he ldquoCour Visconirdquo o he Louvre

Te DR Byen in Copenhagen a mediaplanned by Jean Nouvel was anoher e

venure Te bui lding is enveloped on aa rhomboidal gridshell Ataching he so he nodal srucure was jus one o hlenges Even more ingenious was he spdeveloped ensioning sysem o ensurehe end all he differen lenghs o seel

were subjec o he same ensi le orce991252

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2225

991252You will find ambiious Waagner-Biro archi-ecural seel consrucions in many regions ohe world Te core markes are in Europe andhe Arab world In over 150 years he companyhas developed an ousanding repuaion cul-minaing in join venures wih highly renownedarchiecs and planners Te success o hesecooperaions is based on he ousanding qualiyo services and he developmen o individualengineering soluions or each projec991252

mdash SERVICE PORTFOLIO

Waagner-Birorsquos real srengh lies in high per or-mance in areas where ohers are already reachingheir limis

991252 Seel and glass building shells991252 Free-orm srucures and complex geomeries991252 Cable suppored srucures

eg pre-ensioned walls991252 Special soluions or challenging

aluminium accedilades

991252 Inegraed soluions involving addiionalmaerials like exile membranes

991252 Innovaive use o maerialslike load-bearing glass

991252 Soluions or complicaedramps sairs and mass

Te company also offers relevan service andmainenance opions (eg accedilade mainenancerenovaion modificaion)One secre o he success o Waagner-BiroSahlbau is is parnerships wih archiecs and

planning firms including

Architects Foser and Parners Jean NouvelSOM Murphy Jahn Asympoe Mario BelliniMassimiliano Fuksas KPF Wilkinson EyreHenning Larsen HOK Jerde ParnershipHeneghan Peng 3D Reid RMJM Hollein ecPlanning firms Arup Buro HappoldSchlaich Bergermann Parner Werner SobekIngenieure Fron Leonhard Andrauml undParner ec

mdash REFERENCES

Numerous reerences ates o Waagner-Birocompeence in seel consrucion Here is a boverview

991252 Reichsag dome BerlinGermany Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Sony Cener BerlinGermany Archiec Murphy Jahn

991252 Grea Cour Briish Museum LondonU Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Red Bull Hangar 7 SalzburgAusria Archiec Burgsaller

991252 Swiss Re ower (Dome) LondonUK Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Burj Khalia (Enrance pavilion) DubaiU Archiec Skidmore Owi ngs and Merri l

991252 Capial Gae Abu DhabiUAE Archiec RMJM Dubai

991252 Co-operaive Group (Corporaeheadquarers) MancheserUK

Archiec 3D Reid991252 Zloe arasy WarsawPoland

Archiec Te Jerde Parnership991252 Yas Island Marina Hoel Abu DhabiUA

Archiec Asympoe991252 Te Blob EindhovenNeherlands

Archiec Massimiliano Fuksas991252 Louvre ldquoCour Visconirdquo ParisFrance

Archiecs Mario Bell ini Rudy Riccioti991252 Baku Airpor erminal Azerbaijan

Archiec Arup991252 Bay Abdullah Kuwai

Archiec Marks Barfield Archiecs

mdash PORTRAIT mdash

22 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2325

E

mdash AUSTRIA

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Saurn ower Leonard-Bernsein-Sraszlige 10

1220 Vienna Ausria +431288 44 0F +431288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ASERBAIDSCHAN

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Azerbaijan Branch Office

AZ1025 Baku ciy Khaayi di sric25 Sabi Orujov sree Aparmen 52 +431288 44 0F +341288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

mdash UNITED KINGDOM

Waagner Biro Ltd

Valian House 2nd Floor 4ndash10 Heneage Lane

London EC3A 5DQ Unied Kingdom +44207337 2240F +44207929 1880E inowaagnerbirocouk

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash DUBAI

Waagner Biro Stahlbau AG

Dubai Branch Office

Dubai Invesmen Park II Warehouse complexPO Box 8542 +97148855275F +97148855381

mdash POLAND

Waagner Biro Spoacutelka z oo

Al Armii Ludowej 26

00-609 Warsaw Poland +431288 44 0E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ABU DHABI

Waagner Biro Emirates Contracting L

Link Invesmen Building Plo 128 ndash Muroor (Office 102)PO Box 127687 Abu Dhabi ndash UAE +97124918818F +97124918819

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2425

VISITWAAGNER-BIRO

COM

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2525

WAAGNERBIROmdashmdashINSIGHT

STEEL GLASSSTRUCTURES

Page 15: Image Steel Glass11

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httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1525

991252ZLOTE TArSY AtrCTED

OVER 500000 VISITORS IN

THE FIRST WEEK991252

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1625

mdash FLOATING VIRTUOSITYFROM THE

LIGHTNESSOF BEINGmdash

16 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1725

991252 Seel is heavy We all know ha romence Seel is hard Ta is no secre eihseel is also exremely pliable a less obvqualiy Is pliabiliy is one o he essenin enabling seel srucures o be inricapieces o modern archiecure

Formula 1 racing car drivers can ates Tey pass underneah he gridshell sruo he Yas Marina Hoel on he new rac

in Abu Dhabi which hosed is firs Grin November 2009 Te hoelrsquos appearais disincive hanks o is ree-orm sruspanning a secion o he rack Te visihe New York archiecural firm Asympinspired by conceps like speed movemelegance and specacle Inspiraion soudirecly rom he ldquoarrdquo and ldquopoeryrdquo o mspor Te resul Te Waagner-Biro sesrucure envelopes he muli-sory ho

Te Yas Marina Hoel in Abu Dhabi ndash A specacular backdrop o Formula 1

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1825

repilian skin Despie is 2800 onnes o seeland 5100 glass elemens i ress on only a ew

V-shaped suppors o achieve he buildingrsquosfiligree effec each o he 10700 differen rodshas o be as hin as possible No only is ap-pearance bu also he speed a which Waagner-Biro compleed his complex projec is rulyimpressive jus 18 monhs rom presening hearchiecural draf o compleion

Looking a he Yas Marina Hoel i is no sur-prising ha ree-orm srucures grew increasing-ly popular over he las decade Te possibiliiesoffered by conemporary seel-glass echnology

convince more and more cliens who wan heir building o sand ou rom he crowd

So while he Yas Marina Hoel is a highligh o Waagner-Birorsquos recen work i w as cerainly nohe only projec wih his level o complexiyTe ldquoMyZeilrdquo building ensemble in Frankur amMain shares a wow acor o similar magniude

Viewed rom he side he rumpe-shaped un-nel in he ouer accedilade elicis houghs o a blackhole in space warping ime Te buildingrsquos shellis a prime example o how flex ible a seel-glass

srucure can be

Te lighness o ree-orm srucures is par-icularly palpable in roo srucures appearingo floa hanks o heir spherical design Whileoffering proecion rom wind and weaher heuse o ransparen glass also engenders a eelingo reedom Shopping in such an amosphere ispure deligh Tis opinion was shared by hoseresponsible or Berlinrsquos Sony Cener Te impres-sive roo consrucion made o seel glass andsel-cleaning eflon covered maerial has a ligh

ransmission o 50 which creaes a riendlyshopping experience

I has been a long road rom he radiional rooorms like gable fla or pich roos o ree-ormsrucures which are only limied by archiecsrsquoimaginaions A key acor in his developmenhas been combining seel and glass We canrsquo waio see he impressive designs he uure has insore or us991252

18 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1925

So

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2025

mdashEVO LUTIONNOT

REVOLUTIONmdash

Queen Elizabeth II Great Court

British Museum London

20 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2125

In developing seel and glass gridshell sruc-ures he connecing nodes presen a paricular

challenge he node design has o be developedand individually engineered according o

wheher he glass elemens have r iangula r orquadraic suraces he developmen processesand he soware used o program robos o cuhese nodes rom seel are coninually beingadaped and reined o boos eiciency a highdegree o auomaion is always involved in plan-ning and producion

he challenge in such demanding projecs isha oen no subcomponen resembles anoher

So mass producion is hen no longer an opionor eiher he nodes or he glass panels

Flexible soluions are also required when realis-ing ambiious geomeries Te glass panelsrsquoproven riangular orm guaranees precisely hisdegree o flexibiliy Neverheless a quadraic

991252 I was somehing new somehing unprece-dened in is field Te ree-orm canopy ha

has spanned he Queen Elizabeh II GreaCour a he Briish Museum since 2000 isregarded as he railblazer or his paricular ypeo consrucion Museum visiors are me byhe unamiliar specacle o a 6000 m983218 seel andglass domed roo consising o innumerableriangular elemens Tis marvel o modernarchiecure was only possible hanks o agradual echnological evoluion

A brie review Archiecure is enduring Some buildings appear o have been buil or eerniy

and lose none o heir ascinaion ndash archiecural jewels l ike he Egyp ian pyramid s he ColiseumGohic cahedrals or he Palace o VersaillesTese maserpieces sill make an impac on usoday Tey are enduring symbols o humancreaiviy Te wheels o ime used o urn moreslowly While Egypian emple archiecureevolved litle in 1000 years modern archiecureis subjec o a much greaer demand or develop-men Tis drives odayrsquos expecaions or origi-nal designs and proves ha echnical innovaionsare in greaer demand han ever beore Only

hey enable he realizaion o he cliensrsquo andarchiecsrsquo visions

So i is more abou evoluion han revoluionechnological leaps orward like hose incommunicaion echnology are o litle or noimporance Tere is a ar greaer emphasis onhe coninual developmen o exising soluions

As a long-sanding seel consrucion specialis wih many years o ex perience Waagner-Birohas accrued immense proprieary experise andknow-how enabling i o develop all manner

o ailor-made soluions Tis developmen isprojec driven I is he resul o each conracrsquosspecific challenges

Consrucion projecs ofen involve massive fig-ures Several hundred or even housands o onso seel or concree are se in place While suchfigures are ruly impressive hey only ell hal hesory I is only when our atenion is direced ohe deails ha he rue skill is exposed

Anchoring node s or he seel cable accedilhe DR Byen in Copenhagen

orm or even a combinaion o boh orsomeimes required or economic or ar

ural reasons I is in his very field ha WBiro is co-operaing wih he Vienna Uo echnology ogeher hey have beeing how such geomeries can be combiorm oher gridshell shapes Te accediladeing o he ldquoFesival Ciyrdquo in Dubai or eemployed no only riangular bu also glass elemens Te same soluion was uroo he ldquoCour Visconirdquo o he Louvre

Te DR Byen in Copenhagen a mediaplanned by Jean Nouvel was anoher e

venure Te bui lding is enveloped on aa rhomboidal gridshell Ataching he so he nodal srucure was jus one o hlenges Even more ingenious was he spdeveloped ensioning sysem o ensurehe end all he differen lenghs o seel

were subjec o he same ensi le orce991252

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2225

991252You will find ambiious Waagner-Biro archi-ecural seel consrucions in many regions ohe world Te core markes are in Europe andhe Arab world In over 150 years he companyhas developed an ousanding repuaion cul-minaing in join venures wih highly renownedarchiecs and planners Te success o hesecooperaions is based on he ousanding qualiyo services and he developmen o individualengineering soluions or each projec991252

mdash SERVICE PORTFOLIO

Waagner-Birorsquos real srengh lies in high per or-mance in areas where ohers are already reachingheir limis

991252 Seel and glass building shells991252 Free-orm srucures and complex geomeries991252 Cable suppored srucures

eg pre-ensioned walls991252 Special soluions or challenging

aluminium accedilades

991252 Inegraed soluions involving addiionalmaerials like exile membranes

991252 Innovaive use o maerialslike load-bearing glass

991252 Soluions or complicaedramps sairs and mass

Te company also offers relevan service andmainenance opions (eg accedilade mainenancerenovaion modificaion)One secre o he success o Waagner-BiroSahlbau is is parnerships wih archiecs and

planning firms including

Architects Foser and Parners Jean NouvelSOM Murphy Jahn Asympoe Mario BelliniMassimiliano Fuksas KPF Wilkinson EyreHenning Larsen HOK Jerde ParnershipHeneghan Peng 3D Reid RMJM Hollein ecPlanning firms Arup Buro HappoldSchlaich Bergermann Parner Werner SobekIngenieure Fron Leonhard Andrauml undParner ec

mdash REFERENCES

Numerous reerences ates o Waagner-Birocompeence in seel consrucion Here is a boverview

991252 Reichsag dome BerlinGermany Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Sony Cener BerlinGermany Archiec Murphy Jahn

991252 Grea Cour Briish Museum LondonU Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Red Bull Hangar 7 SalzburgAusria Archiec Burgsaller

991252 Swiss Re ower (Dome) LondonUK Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Burj Khalia (Enrance pavilion) DubaiU Archiec Skidmore Owi ngs and Merri l

991252 Capial Gae Abu DhabiUAE Archiec RMJM Dubai

991252 Co-operaive Group (Corporaeheadquarers) MancheserUK

Archiec 3D Reid991252 Zloe arasy WarsawPoland

Archiec Te Jerde Parnership991252 Yas Island Marina Hoel Abu DhabiUA

Archiec Asympoe991252 Te Blob EindhovenNeherlands

Archiec Massimiliano Fuksas991252 Louvre ldquoCour Visconirdquo ParisFrance

Archiecs Mario Bell ini Rudy Riccioti991252 Baku Airpor erminal Azerbaijan

Archiec Arup991252 Bay Abdullah Kuwai

Archiec Marks Barfield Archiecs

mdash PORTRAIT mdash

22 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2325

E

mdash AUSTRIA

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Saurn ower Leonard-Bernsein-Sraszlige 10

1220 Vienna Ausria +431288 44 0F +431288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ASERBAIDSCHAN

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Azerbaijan Branch Office

AZ1025 Baku ciy Khaayi di sric25 Sabi Orujov sree Aparmen 52 +431288 44 0F +341288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

mdash UNITED KINGDOM

Waagner Biro Ltd

Valian House 2nd Floor 4ndash10 Heneage Lane

London EC3A 5DQ Unied Kingdom +44207337 2240F +44207929 1880E inowaagnerbirocouk

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash DUBAI

Waagner Biro Stahlbau AG

Dubai Branch Office

Dubai Invesmen Park II Warehouse complexPO Box 8542 +97148855275F +97148855381

mdash POLAND

Waagner Biro Spoacutelka z oo

Al Armii Ludowej 26

00-609 Warsaw Poland +431288 44 0E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ABU DHABI

Waagner Biro Emirates Contracting L

Link Invesmen Building Plo 128 ndash Muroor (Office 102)PO Box 127687 Abu Dhabi ndash UAE +97124918818F +97124918819

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2425

VISITWAAGNER-BIRO

COM

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2525

WAAGNERBIROmdashmdashINSIGHT

STEEL GLASSSTRUCTURES

Page 16: Image Steel Glass11

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mdash FLOATING VIRTUOSITYFROM THE

LIGHTNESSOF BEINGmdash

16 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1725

991252 Seel is heavy We all know ha romence Seel is hard Ta is no secre eihseel is also exremely pliable a less obvqualiy Is pliabiliy is one o he essenin enabling seel srucures o be inricapieces o modern archiecure

Formula 1 racing car drivers can ates Tey pass underneah he gridshell sruo he Yas Marina Hoel on he new rac

in Abu Dhabi which hosed is firs Grin November 2009 Te hoelrsquos appearais disincive hanks o is ree-orm sruspanning a secion o he rack Te visihe New York archiecural firm Asympinspired by conceps like speed movemelegance and specacle Inspiraion soudirecly rom he ldquoarrdquo and ldquopoeryrdquo o mspor Te resul Te Waagner-Biro sesrucure envelopes he muli-sory ho

Te Yas Marina Hoel in Abu Dhabi ndash A specacular backdrop o Formula 1

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1825

repilian skin Despie is 2800 onnes o seeland 5100 glass elemens i ress on only a ew

V-shaped suppors o achieve he buildingrsquosfiligree effec each o he 10700 differen rodshas o be as hin as possible No only is ap-pearance bu also he speed a which Waagner-Biro compleed his complex projec is rulyimpressive jus 18 monhs rom presening hearchiecural draf o compleion

Looking a he Yas Marina Hoel i is no sur-prising ha ree-orm srucures grew increasing-ly popular over he las decade Te possibiliiesoffered by conemporary seel-glass echnology

convince more and more cliens who wan heir building o sand ou rom he crowd

So while he Yas Marina Hoel is a highligh o Waagner-Birorsquos recen work i w as cerainly nohe only projec wih his level o complexiyTe ldquoMyZeilrdquo building ensemble in Frankur amMain shares a wow acor o similar magniude

Viewed rom he side he rumpe-shaped un-nel in he ouer accedilade elicis houghs o a blackhole in space warping ime Te buildingrsquos shellis a prime example o how flex ible a seel-glass

srucure can be

Te lighness o ree-orm srucures is par-icularly palpable in roo srucures appearingo floa hanks o heir spherical design Whileoffering proecion rom wind and weaher heuse o ransparen glass also engenders a eelingo reedom Shopping in such an amosphere ispure deligh Tis opinion was shared by hoseresponsible or Berlinrsquos Sony Cener Te impres-sive roo consrucion made o seel glass andsel-cleaning eflon covered maerial has a ligh

ransmission o 50 which creaes a riendlyshopping experience

I has been a long road rom he radiional rooorms like gable fla or pich roos o ree-ormsrucures which are only limied by archiecsrsquoimaginaions A key acor in his developmenhas been combining seel and glass We canrsquo waio see he impressive designs he uure has insore or us991252

18 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1925

So

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2025

mdashEVO LUTIONNOT

REVOLUTIONmdash

Queen Elizabeth II Great Court

British Museum London

20 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2125

In developing seel and glass gridshell sruc-ures he connecing nodes presen a paricular

challenge he node design has o be developedand individually engineered according o

wheher he glass elemens have r iangula r orquadraic suraces he developmen processesand he soware used o program robos o cuhese nodes rom seel are coninually beingadaped and reined o boos eiciency a highdegree o auomaion is always involved in plan-ning and producion

he challenge in such demanding projecs isha oen no subcomponen resembles anoher

So mass producion is hen no longer an opionor eiher he nodes or he glass panels

Flexible soluions are also required when realis-ing ambiious geomeries Te glass panelsrsquoproven riangular orm guaranees precisely hisdegree o flexibiliy Neverheless a quadraic

991252 I was somehing new somehing unprece-dened in is field Te ree-orm canopy ha

has spanned he Queen Elizabeh II GreaCour a he Briish Museum since 2000 isregarded as he railblazer or his paricular ypeo consrucion Museum visiors are me byhe unamiliar specacle o a 6000 m983218 seel andglass domed roo consising o innumerableriangular elemens Tis marvel o modernarchiecure was only possible hanks o agradual echnological evoluion

A brie review Archiecure is enduring Some buildings appear o have been buil or eerniy

and lose none o heir ascinaion ndash archiecural jewels l ike he Egyp ian pyramid s he ColiseumGohic cahedrals or he Palace o VersaillesTese maserpieces sill make an impac on usoday Tey are enduring symbols o humancreaiviy Te wheels o ime used o urn moreslowly While Egypian emple archiecureevolved litle in 1000 years modern archiecureis subjec o a much greaer demand or develop-men Tis drives odayrsquos expecaions or origi-nal designs and proves ha echnical innovaionsare in greaer demand han ever beore Only

hey enable he realizaion o he cliensrsquo andarchiecsrsquo visions

So i is more abou evoluion han revoluionechnological leaps orward like hose incommunicaion echnology are o litle or noimporance Tere is a ar greaer emphasis onhe coninual developmen o exising soluions

As a long-sanding seel consrucion specialis wih many years o ex perience Waagner-Birohas accrued immense proprieary experise andknow-how enabling i o develop all manner

o ailor-made soluions Tis developmen isprojec driven I is he resul o each conracrsquosspecific challenges

Consrucion projecs ofen involve massive fig-ures Several hundred or even housands o onso seel or concree are se in place While suchfigures are ruly impressive hey only ell hal hesory I is only when our atenion is direced ohe deails ha he rue skill is exposed

Anchoring node s or he seel cable accedilhe DR Byen in Copenhagen

orm or even a combinaion o boh orsomeimes required or economic or ar

ural reasons I is in his very field ha WBiro is co-operaing wih he Vienna Uo echnology ogeher hey have beeing how such geomeries can be combiorm oher gridshell shapes Te accediladeing o he ldquoFesival Ciyrdquo in Dubai or eemployed no only riangular bu also glass elemens Te same soluion was uroo he ldquoCour Visconirdquo o he Louvre

Te DR Byen in Copenhagen a mediaplanned by Jean Nouvel was anoher e

venure Te bui lding is enveloped on aa rhomboidal gridshell Ataching he so he nodal srucure was jus one o hlenges Even more ingenious was he spdeveloped ensioning sysem o ensurehe end all he differen lenghs o seel

were subjec o he same ensi le orce991252

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2225

991252You will find ambiious Waagner-Biro archi-ecural seel consrucions in many regions ohe world Te core markes are in Europe andhe Arab world In over 150 years he companyhas developed an ousanding repuaion cul-minaing in join venures wih highly renownedarchiecs and planners Te success o hesecooperaions is based on he ousanding qualiyo services and he developmen o individualengineering soluions or each projec991252

mdash SERVICE PORTFOLIO

Waagner-Birorsquos real srengh lies in high per or-mance in areas where ohers are already reachingheir limis

991252 Seel and glass building shells991252 Free-orm srucures and complex geomeries991252 Cable suppored srucures

eg pre-ensioned walls991252 Special soluions or challenging

aluminium accedilades

991252 Inegraed soluions involving addiionalmaerials like exile membranes

991252 Innovaive use o maerialslike load-bearing glass

991252 Soluions or complicaedramps sairs and mass

Te company also offers relevan service andmainenance opions (eg accedilade mainenancerenovaion modificaion)One secre o he success o Waagner-BiroSahlbau is is parnerships wih archiecs and

planning firms including

Architects Foser and Parners Jean NouvelSOM Murphy Jahn Asympoe Mario BelliniMassimiliano Fuksas KPF Wilkinson EyreHenning Larsen HOK Jerde ParnershipHeneghan Peng 3D Reid RMJM Hollein ecPlanning firms Arup Buro HappoldSchlaich Bergermann Parner Werner SobekIngenieure Fron Leonhard Andrauml undParner ec

mdash REFERENCES

Numerous reerences ates o Waagner-Birocompeence in seel consrucion Here is a boverview

991252 Reichsag dome BerlinGermany Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Sony Cener BerlinGermany Archiec Murphy Jahn

991252 Grea Cour Briish Museum LondonU Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Red Bull Hangar 7 SalzburgAusria Archiec Burgsaller

991252 Swiss Re ower (Dome) LondonUK Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Burj Khalia (Enrance pavilion) DubaiU Archiec Skidmore Owi ngs and Merri l

991252 Capial Gae Abu DhabiUAE Archiec RMJM Dubai

991252 Co-operaive Group (Corporaeheadquarers) MancheserUK

Archiec 3D Reid991252 Zloe arasy WarsawPoland

Archiec Te Jerde Parnership991252 Yas Island Marina Hoel Abu DhabiUA

Archiec Asympoe991252 Te Blob EindhovenNeherlands

Archiec Massimiliano Fuksas991252 Louvre ldquoCour Visconirdquo ParisFrance

Archiecs Mario Bell ini Rudy Riccioti991252 Baku Airpor erminal Azerbaijan

Archiec Arup991252 Bay Abdullah Kuwai

Archiec Marks Barfield Archiecs

mdash PORTRAIT mdash

22 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2325

E

mdash AUSTRIA

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Saurn ower Leonard-Bernsein-Sraszlige 10

1220 Vienna Ausria +431288 44 0F +431288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ASERBAIDSCHAN

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Azerbaijan Branch Office

AZ1025 Baku ciy Khaayi di sric25 Sabi Orujov sree Aparmen 52 +431288 44 0F +341288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

mdash UNITED KINGDOM

Waagner Biro Ltd

Valian House 2nd Floor 4ndash10 Heneage Lane

London EC3A 5DQ Unied Kingdom +44207337 2240F +44207929 1880E inowaagnerbirocouk

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash DUBAI

Waagner Biro Stahlbau AG

Dubai Branch Office

Dubai Invesmen Park II Warehouse complexPO Box 8542 +97148855275F +97148855381

mdash POLAND

Waagner Biro Spoacutelka z oo

Al Armii Ludowej 26

00-609 Warsaw Poland +431288 44 0E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ABU DHABI

Waagner Biro Emirates Contracting L

Link Invesmen Building Plo 128 ndash Muroor (Office 102)PO Box 127687 Abu Dhabi ndash UAE +97124918818F +97124918819

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2425

VISITWAAGNER-BIRO

COM

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2525

WAAGNERBIROmdashmdashINSIGHT

STEEL GLASSSTRUCTURES

Page 17: Image Steel Glass11

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1725

991252 Seel is heavy We all know ha romence Seel is hard Ta is no secre eihseel is also exremely pliable a less obvqualiy Is pliabiliy is one o he essenin enabling seel srucures o be inricapieces o modern archiecure

Formula 1 racing car drivers can ates Tey pass underneah he gridshell sruo he Yas Marina Hoel on he new rac

in Abu Dhabi which hosed is firs Grin November 2009 Te hoelrsquos appearais disincive hanks o is ree-orm sruspanning a secion o he rack Te visihe New York archiecural firm Asympinspired by conceps like speed movemelegance and specacle Inspiraion soudirecly rom he ldquoarrdquo and ldquopoeryrdquo o mspor Te resul Te Waagner-Biro sesrucure envelopes he muli-sory ho

Te Yas Marina Hoel in Abu Dhabi ndash A specacular backdrop o Formula 1

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1825

repilian skin Despie is 2800 onnes o seeland 5100 glass elemens i ress on only a ew

V-shaped suppors o achieve he buildingrsquosfiligree effec each o he 10700 differen rodshas o be as hin as possible No only is ap-pearance bu also he speed a which Waagner-Biro compleed his complex projec is rulyimpressive jus 18 monhs rom presening hearchiecural draf o compleion

Looking a he Yas Marina Hoel i is no sur-prising ha ree-orm srucures grew increasing-ly popular over he las decade Te possibiliiesoffered by conemporary seel-glass echnology

convince more and more cliens who wan heir building o sand ou rom he crowd

So while he Yas Marina Hoel is a highligh o Waagner-Birorsquos recen work i w as cerainly nohe only projec wih his level o complexiyTe ldquoMyZeilrdquo building ensemble in Frankur amMain shares a wow acor o similar magniude

Viewed rom he side he rumpe-shaped un-nel in he ouer accedilade elicis houghs o a blackhole in space warping ime Te buildingrsquos shellis a prime example o how flex ible a seel-glass

srucure can be

Te lighness o ree-orm srucures is par-icularly palpable in roo srucures appearingo floa hanks o heir spherical design Whileoffering proecion rom wind and weaher heuse o ransparen glass also engenders a eelingo reedom Shopping in such an amosphere ispure deligh Tis opinion was shared by hoseresponsible or Berlinrsquos Sony Cener Te impres-sive roo consrucion made o seel glass andsel-cleaning eflon covered maerial has a ligh

ransmission o 50 which creaes a riendlyshopping experience

I has been a long road rom he radiional rooorms like gable fla or pich roos o ree-ormsrucures which are only limied by archiecsrsquoimaginaions A key acor in his developmenhas been combining seel and glass We canrsquo waio see he impressive designs he uure has insore or us991252

18 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1925

So

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2025

mdashEVO LUTIONNOT

REVOLUTIONmdash

Queen Elizabeth II Great Court

British Museum London

20 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2125

In developing seel and glass gridshell sruc-ures he connecing nodes presen a paricular

challenge he node design has o be developedand individually engineered according o

wheher he glass elemens have r iangula r orquadraic suraces he developmen processesand he soware used o program robos o cuhese nodes rom seel are coninually beingadaped and reined o boos eiciency a highdegree o auomaion is always involved in plan-ning and producion

he challenge in such demanding projecs isha oen no subcomponen resembles anoher

So mass producion is hen no longer an opionor eiher he nodes or he glass panels

Flexible soluions are also required when realis-ing ambiious geomeries Te glass panelsrsquoproven riangular orm guaranees precisely hisdegree o flexibiliy Neverheless a quadraic

991252 I was somehing new somehing unprece-dened in is field Te ree-orm canopy ha

has spanned he Queen Elizabeh II GreaCour a he Briish Museum since 2000 isregarded as he railblazer or his paricular ypeo consrucion Museum visiors are me byhe unamiliar specacle o a 6000 m983218 seel andglass domed roo consising o innumerableriangular elemens Tis marvel o modernarchiecure was only possible hanks o agradual echnological evoluion

A brie review Archiecure is enduring Some buildings appear o have been buil or eerniy

and lose none o heir ascinaion ndash archiecural jewels l ike he Egyp ian pyramid s he ColiseumGohic cahedrals or he Palace o VersaillesTese maserpieces sill make an impac on usoday Tey are enduring symbols o humancreaiviy Te wheels o ime used o urn moreslowly While Egypian emple archiecureevolved litle in 1000 years modern archiecureis subjec o a much greaer demand or develop-men Tis drives odayrsquos expecaions or origi-nal designs and proves ha echnical innovaionsare in greaer demand han ever beore Only

hey enable he realizaion o he cliensrsquo andarchiecsrsquo visions

So i is more abou evoluion han revoluionechnological leaps orward like hose incommunicaion echnology are o litle or noimporance Tere is a ar greaer emphasis onhe coninual developmen o exising soluions

As a long-sanding seel consrucion specialis wih many years o ex perience Waagner-Birohas accrued immense proprieary experise andknow-how enabling i o develop all manner

o ailor-made soluions Tis developmen isprojec driven I is he resul o each conracrsquosspecific challenges

Consrucion projecs ofen involve massive fig-ures Several hundred or even housands o onso seel or concree are se in place While suchfigures are ruly impressive hey only ell hal hesory I is only when our atenion is direced ohe deails ha he rue skill is exposed

Anchoring node s or he seel cable accedilhe DR Byen in Copenhagen

orm or even a combinaion o boh orsomeimes required or economic or ar

ural reasons I is in his very field ha WBiro is co-operaing wih he Vienna Uo echnology ogeher hey have beeing how such geomeries can be combiorm oher gridshell shapes Te accediladeing o he ldquoFesival Ciyrdquo in Dubai or eemployed no only riangular bu also glass elemens Te same soluion was uroo he ldquoCour Visconirdquo o he Louvre

Te DR Byen in Copenhagen a mediaplanned by Jean Nouvel was anoher e

venure Te bui lding is enveloped on aa rhomboidal gridshell Ataching he so he nodal srucure was jus one o hlenges Even more ingenious was he spdeveloped ensioning sysem o ensurehe end all he differen lenghs o seel

were subjec o he same ensi le orce991252

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2225

991252You will find ambiious Waagner-Biro archi-ecural seel consrucions in many regions ohe world Te core markes are in Europe andhe Arab world In over 150 years he companyhas developed an ousanding repuaion cul-minaing in join venures wih highly renownedarchiecs and planners Te success o hesecooperaions is based on he ousanding qualiyo services and he developmen o individualengineering soluions or each projec991252

mdash SERVICE PORTFOLIO

Waagner-Birorsquos real srengh lies in high per or-mance in areas where ohers are already reachingheir limis

991252 Seel and glass building shells991252 Free-orm srucures and complex geomeries991252 Cable suppored srucures

eg pre-ensioned walls991252 Special soluions or challenging

aluminium accedilades

991252 Inegraed soluions involving addiionalmaerials like exile membranes

991252 Innovaive use o maerialslike load-bearing glass

991252 Soluions or complicaedramps sairs and mass

Te company also offers relevan service andmainenance opions (eg accedilade mainenancerenovaion modificaion)One secre o he success o Waagner-BiroSahlbau is is parnerships wih archiecs and

planning firms including

Architects Foser and Parners Jean NouvelSOM Murphy Jahn Asympoe Mario BelliniMassimiliano Fuksas KPF Wilkinson EyreHenning Larsen HOK Jerde ParnershipHeneghan Peng 3D Reid RMJM Hollein ecPlanning firms Arup Buro HappoldSchlaich Bergermann Parner Werner SobekIngenieure Fron Leonhard Andrauml undParner ec

mdash REFERENCES

Numerous reerences ates o Waagner-Birocompeence in seel consrucion Here is a boverview

991252 Reichsag dome BerlinGermany Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Sony Cener BerlinGermany Archiec Murphy Jahn

991252 Grea Cour Briish Museum LondonU Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Red Bull Hangar 7 SalzburgAusria Archiec Burgsaller

991252 Swiss Re ower (Dome) LondonUK Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Burj Khalia (Enrance pavilion) DubaiU Archiec Skidmore Owi ngs and Merri l

991252 Capial Gae Abu DhabiUAE Archiec RMJM Dubai

991252 Co-operaive Group (Corporaeheadquarers) MancheserUK

Archiec 3D Reid991252 Zloe arasy WarsawPoland

Archiec Te Jerde Parnership991252 Yas Island Marina Hoel Abu DhabiUA

Archiec Asympoe991252 Te Blob EindhovenNeherlands

Archiec Massimiliano Fuksas991252 Louvre ldquoCour Visconirdquo ParisFrance

Archiecs Mario Bell ini Rudy Riccioti991252 Baku Airpor erminal Azerbaijan

Archiec Arup991252 Bay Abdullah Kuwai

Archiec Marks Barfield Archiecs

mdash PORTRAIT mdash

22 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

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E

mdash AUSTRIA

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Saurn ower Leonard-Bernsein-Sraszlige 10

1220 Vienna Ausria +431288 44 0F +431288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ASERBAIDSCHAN

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Azerbaijan Branch Office

AZ1025 Baku ciy Khaayi di sric25 Sabi Orujov sree Aparmen 52 +431288 44 0F +341288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

mdash UNITED KINGDOM

Waagner Biro Ltd

Valian House 2nd Floor 4ndash10 Heneage Lane

London EC3A 5DQ Unied Kingdom +44207337 2240F +44207929 1880E inowaagnerbirocouk

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash DUBAI

Waagner Biro Stahlbau AG

Dubai Branch Office

Dubai Invesmen Park II Warehouse complexPO Box 8542 +97148855275F +97148855381

mdash POLAND

Waagner Biro Spoacutelka z oo

Al Armii Ludowej 26

00-609 Warsaw Poland +431288 44 0E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ABU DHABI

Waagner Biro Emirates Contracting L

Link Invesmen Building Plo 128 ndash Muroor (Office 102)PO Box 127687 Abu Dhabi ndash UAE +97124918818F +97124918819

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2425

VISITWAAGNER-BIRO

COM

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2525

WAAGNERBIROmdashmdashINSIGHT

STEEL GLASSSTRUCTURES

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repilian skin Despie is 2800 onnes o seeland 5100 glass elemens i ress on only a ew

V-shaped suppors o achieve he buildingrsquosfiligree effec each o he 10700 differen rodshas o be as hin as possible No only is ap-pearance bu also he speed a which Waagner-Biro compleed his complex projec is rulyimpressive jus 18 monhs rom presening hearchiecural draf o compleion

Looking a he Yas Marina Hoel i is no sur-prising ha ree-orm srucures grew increasing-ly popular over he las decade Te possibiliiesoffered by conemporary seel-glass echnology

convince more and more cliens who wan heir building o sand ou rom he crowd

So while he Yas Marina Hoel is a highligh o Waagner-Birorsquos recen work i w as cerainly nohe only projec wih his level o complexiyTe ldquoMyZeilrdquo building ensemble in Frankur amMain shares a wow acor o similar magniude

Viewed rom he side he rumpe-shaped un-nel in he ouer accedilade elicis houghs o a blackhole in space warping ime Te buildingrsquos shellis a prime example o how flex ible a seel-glass

srucure can be

Te lighness o ree-orm srucures is par-icularly palpable in roo srucures appearingo floa hanks o heir spherical design Whileoffering proecion rom wind and weaher heuse o ransparen glass also engenders a eelingo reedom Shopping in such an amosphere ispure deligh Tis opinion was shared by hoseresponsible or Berlinrsquos Sony Cener Te impres-sive roo consrucion made o seel glass andsel-cleaning eflon covered maerial has a ligh

ransmission o 50 which creaes a riendlyshopping experience

I has been a long road rom he radiional rooorms like gable fla or pich roos o ree-ormsrucures which are only limied by archiecsrsquoimaginaions A key acor in his developmenhas been combining seel and glass We canrsquo waio see he impressive designs he uure has insore or us991252

18 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

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So

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2025

mdashEVO LUTIONNOT

REVOLUTIONmdash

Queen Elizabeth II Great Court

British Museum London

20 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2125

In developing seel and glass gridshell sruc-ures he connecing nodes presen a paricular

challenge he node design has o be developedand individually engineered according o

wheher he glass elemens have r iangula r orquadraic suraces he developmen processesand he soware used o program robos o cuhese nodes rom seel are coninually beingadaped and reined o boos eiciency a highdegree o auomaion is always involved in plan-ning and producion

he challenge in such demanding projecs isha oen no subcomponen resembles anoher

So mass producion is hen no longer an opionor eiher he nodes or he glass panels

Flexible soluions are also required when realis-ing ambiious geomeries Te glass panelsrsquoproven riangular orm guaranees precisely hisdegree o flexibiliy Neverheless a quadraic

991252 I was somehing new somehing unprece-dened in is field Te ree-orm canopy ha

has spanned he Queen Elizabeh II GreaCour a he Briish Museum since 2000 isregarded as he railblazer or his paricular ypeo consrucion Museum visiors are me byhe unamiliar specacle o a 6000 m983218 seel andglass domed roo consising o innumerableriangular elemens Tis marvel o modernarchiecure was only possible hanks o agradual echnological evoluion

A brie review Archiecure is enduring Some buildings appear o have been buil or eerniy

and lose none o heir ascinaion ndash archiecural jewels l ike he Egyp ian pyramid s he ColiseumGohic cahedrals or he Palace o VersaillesTese maserpieces sill make an impac on usoday Tey are enduring symbols o humancreaiviy Te wheels o ime used o urn moreslowly While Egypian emple archiecureevolved litle in 1000 years modern archiecureis subjec o a much greaer demand or develop-men Tis drives odayrsquos expecaions or origi-nal designs and proves ha echnical innovaionsare in greaer demand han ever beore Only

hey enable he realizaion o he cliensrsquo andarchiecsrsquo visions

So i is more abou evoluion han revoluionechnological leaps orward like hose incommunicaion echnology are o litle or noimporance Tere is a ar greaer emphasis onhe coninual developmen o exising soluions

As a long-sanding seel consrucion specialis wih many years o ex perience Waagner-Birohas accrued immense proprieary experise andknow-how enabling i o develop all manner

o ailor-made soluions Tis developmen isprojec driven I is he resul o each conracrsquosspecific challenges

Consrucion projecs ofen involve massive fig-ures Several hundred or even housands o onso seel or concree are se in place While suchfigures are ruly impressive hey only ell hal hesory I is only when our atenion is direced ohe deails ha he rue skill is exposed

Anchoring node s or he seel cable accedilhe DR Byen in Copenhagen

orm or even a combinaion o boh orsomeimes required or economic or ar

ural reasons I is in his very field ha WBiro is co-operaing wih he Vienna Uo echnology ogeher hey have beeing how such geomeries can be combiorm oher gridshell shapes Te accediladeing o he ldquoFesival Ciyrdquo in Dubai or eemployed no only riangular bu also glass elemens Te same soluion was uroo he ldquoCour Visconirdquo o he Louvre

Te DR Byen in Copenhagen a mediaplanned by Jean Nouvel was anoher e

venure Te bui lding is enveloped on aa rhomboidal gridshell Ataching he so he nodal srucure was jus one o hlenges Even more ingenious was he spdeveloped ensioning sysem o ensurehe end all he differen lenghs o seel

were subjec o he same ensi le orce991252

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2225

991252You will find ambiious Waagner-Biro archi-ecural seel consrucions in many regions ohe world Te core markes are in Europe andhe Arab world In over 150 years he companyhas developed an ousanding repuaion cul-minaing in join venures wih highly renownedarchiecs and planners Te success o hesecooperaions is based on he ousanding qualiyo services and he developmen o individualengineering soluions or each projec991252

mdash SERVICE PORTFOLIO

Waagner-Birorsquos real srengh lies in high per or-mance in areas where ohers are already reachingheir limis

991252 Seel and glass building shells991252 Free-orm srucures and complex geomeries991252 Cable suppored srucures

eg pre-ensioned walls991252 Special soluions or challenging

aluminium accedilades

991252 Inegraed soluions involving addiionalmaerials like exile membranes

991252 Innovaive use o maerialslike load-bearing glass

991252 Soluions or complicaedramps sairs and mass

Te company also offers relevan service andmainenance opions (eg accedilade mainenancerenovaion modificaion)One secre o he success o Waagner-BiroSahlbau is is parnerships wih archiecs and

planning firms including

Architects Foser and Parners Jean NouvelSOM Murphy Jahn Asympoe Mario BelliniMassimiliano Fuksas KPF Wilkinson EyreHenning Larsen HOK Jerde ParnershipHeneghan Peng 3D Reid RMJM Hollein ecPlanning firms Arup Buro HappoldSchlaich Bergermann Parner Werner SobekIngenieure Fron Leonhard Andrauml undParner ec

mdash REFERENCES

Numerous reerences ates o Waagner-Birocompeence in seel consrucion Here is a boverview

991252 Reichsag dome BerlinGermany Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Sony Cener BerlinGermany Archiec Murphy Jahn

991252 Grea Cour Briish Museum LondonU Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Red Bull Hangar 7 SalzburgAusria Archiec Burgsaller

991252 Swiss Re ower (Dome) LondonUK Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Burj Khalia (Enrance pavilion) DubaiU Archiec Skidmore Owi ngs and Merri l

991252 Capial Gae Abu DhabiUAE Archiec RMJM Dubai

991252 Co-operaive Group (Corporaeheadquarers) MancheserUK

Archiec 3D Reid991252 Zloe arasy WarsawPoland

Archiec Te Jerde Parnership991252 Yas Island Marina Hoel Abu DhabiUA

Archiec Asympoe991252 Te Blob EindhovenNeherlands

Archiec Massimiliano Fuksas991252 Louvre ldquoCour Visconirdquo ParisFrance

Archiecs Mario Bell ini Rudy Riccioti991252 Baku Airpor erminal Azerbaijan

Archiec Arup991252 Bay Abdullah Kuwai

Archiec Marks Barfield Archiecs

mdash PORTRAIT mdash

22 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2325

E

mdash AUSTRIA

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Saurn ower Leonard-Bernsein-Sraszlige 10

1220 Vienna Ausria +431288 44 0F +431288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ASERBAIDSCHAN

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Azerbaijan Branch Office

AZ1025 Baku ciy Khaayi di sric25 Sabi Orujov sree Aparmen 52 +431288 44 0F +341288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

mdash UNITED KINGDOM

Waagner Biro Ltd

Valian House 2nd Floor 4ndash10 Heneage Lane

London EC3A 5DQ Unied Kingdom +44207337 2240F +44207929 1880E inowaagnerbirocouk

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash DUBAI

Waagner Biro Stahlbau AG

Dubai Branch Office

Dubai Invesmen Park II Warehouse complexPO Box 8542 +97148855275F +97148855381

mdash POLAND

Waagner Biro Spoacutelka z oo

Al Armii Ludowej 26

00-609 Warsaw Poland +431288 44 0E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ABU DHABI

Waagner Biro Emirates Contracting L

Link Invesmen Building Plo 128 ndash Muroor (Office 102)PO Box 127687 Abu Dhabi ndash UAE +97124918818F +97124918819

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2425

VISITWAAGNER-BIRO

COM

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2525

WAAGNERBIROmdashmdashINSIGHT

STEEL GLASSSTRUCTURES

Page 19: Image Steel Glass11

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httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 1925

So

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2025

mdashEVO LUTIONNOT

REVOLUTIONmdash

Queen Elizabeth II Great Court

British Museum London

20 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2125

In developing seel and glass gridshell sruc-ures he connecing nodes presen a paricular

challenge he node design has o be developedand individually engineered according o

wheher he glass elemens have r iangula r orquadraic suraces he developmen processesand he soware used o program robos o cuhese nodes rom seel are coninually beingadaped and reined o boos eiciency a highdegree o auomaion is always involved in plan-ning and producion

he challenge in such demanding projecs isha oen no subcomponen resembles anoher

So mass producion is hen no longer an opionor eiher he nodes or he glass panels

Flexible soluions are also required when realis-ing ambiious geomeries Te glass panelsrsquoproven riangular orm guaranees precisely hisdegree o flexibiliy Neverheless a quadraic

991252 I was somehing new somehing unprece-dened in is field Te ree-orm canopy ha

has spanned he Queen Elizabeh II GreaCour a he Briish Museum since 2000 isregarded as he railblazer or his paricular ypeo consrucion Museum visiors are me byhe unamiliar specacle o a 6000 m983218 seel andglass domed roo consising o innumerableriangular elemens Tis marvel o modernarchiecure was only possible hanks o agradual echnological evoluion

A brie review Archiecure is enduring Some buildings appear o have been buil or eerniy

and lose none o heir ascinaion ndash archiecural jewels l ike he Egyp ian pyramid s he ColiseumGohic cahedrals or he Palace o VersaillesTese maserpieces sill make an impac on usoday Tey are enduring symbols o humancreaiviy Te wheels o ime used o urn moreslowly While Egypian emple archiecureevolved litle in 1000 years modern archiecureis subjec o a much greaer demand or develop-men Tis drives odayrsquos expecaions or origi-nal designs and proves ha echnical innovaionsare in greaer demand han ever beore Only

hey enable he realizaion o he cliensrsquo andarchiecsrsquo visions

So i is more abou evoluion han revoluionechnological leaps orward like hose incommunicaion echnology are o litle or noimporance Tere is a ar greaer emphasis onhe coninual developmen o exising soluions

As a long-sanding seel consrucion specialis wih many years o ex perience Waagner-Birohas accrued immense proprieary experise andknow-how enabling i o develop all manner

o ailor-made soluions Tis developmen isprojec driven I is he resul o each conracrsquosspecific challenges

Consrucion projecs ofen involve massive fig-ures Several hundred or even housands o onso seel or concree are se in place While suchfigures are ruly impressive hey only ell hal hesory I is only when our atenion is direced ohe deails ha he rue skill is exposed

Anchoring node s or he seel cable accedilhe DR Byen in Copenhagen

orm or even a combinaion o boh orsomeimes required or economic or ar

ural reasons I is in his very field ha WBiro is co-operaing wih he Vienna Uo echnology ogeher hey have beeing how such geomeries can be combiorm oher gridshell shapes Te accediladeing o he ldquoFesival Ciyrdquo in Dubai or eemployed no only riangular bu also glass elemens Te same soluion was uroo he ldquoCour Visconirdquo o he Louvre

Te DR Byen in Copenhagen a mediaplanned by Jean Nouvel was anoher e

venure Te bui lding is enveloped on aa rhomboidal gridshell Ataching he so he nodal srucure was jus one o hlenges Even more ingenious was he spdeveloped ensioning sysem o ensurehe end all he differen lenghs o seel

were subjec o he same ensi le orce991252

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2225

991252You will find ambiious Waagner-Biro archi-ecural seel consrucions in many regions ohe world Te core markes are in Europe andhe Arab world In over 150 years he companyhas developed an ousanding repuaion cul-minaing in join venures wih highly renownedarchiecs and planners Te success o hesecooperaions is based on he ousanding qualiyo services and he developmen o individualengineering soluions or each projec991252

mdash SERVICE PORTFOLIO

Waagner-Birorsquos real srengh lies in high per or-mance in areas where ohers are already reachingheir limis

991252 Seel and glass building shells991252 Free-orm srucures and complex geomeries991252 Cable suppored srucures

eg pre-ensioned walls991252 Special soluions or challenging

aluminium accedilades

991252 Inegraed soluions involving addiionalmaerials like exile membranes

991252 Innovaive use o maerialslike load-bearing glass

991252 Soluions or complicaedramps sairs and mass

Te company also offers relevan service andmainenance opions (eg accedilade mainenancerenovaion modificaion)One secre o he success o Waagner-BiroSahlbau is is parnerships wih archiecs and

planning firms including

Architects Foser and Parners Jean NouvelSOM Murphy Jahn Asympoe Mario BelliniMassimiliano Fuksas KPF Wilkinson EyreHenning Larsen HOK Jerde ParnershipHeneghan Peng 3D Reid RMJM Hollein ecPlanning firms Arup Buro HappoldSchlaich Bergermann Parner Werner SobekIngenieure Fron Leonhard Andrauml undParner ec

mdash REFERENCES

Numerous reerences ates o Waagner-Birocompeence in seel consrucion Here is a boverview

991252 Reichsag dome BerlinGermany Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Sony Cener BerlinGermany Archiec Murphy Jahn

991252 Grea Cour Briish Museum LondonU Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Red Bull Hangar 7 SalzburgAusria Archiec Burgsaller

991252 Swiss Re ower (Dome) LondonUK Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Burj Khalia (Enrance pavilion) DubaiU Archiec Skidmore Owi ngs and Merri l

991252 Capial Gae Abu DhabiUAE Archiec RMJM Dubai

991252 Co-operaive Group (Corporaeheadquarers) MancheserUK

Archiec 3D Reid991252 Zloe arasy WarsawPoland

Archiec Te Jerde Parnership991252 Yas Island Marina Hoel Abu DhabiUA

Archiec Asympoe991252 Te Blob EindhovenNeherlands

Archiec Massimiliano Fuksas991252 Louvre ldquoCour Visconirdquo ParisFrance

Archiecs Mario Bell ini Rudy Riccioti991252 Baku Airpor erminal Azerbaijan

Archiec Arup991252 Bay Abdullah Kuwai

Archiec Marks Barfield Archiecs

mdash PORTRAIT mdash

22 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2325

E

mdash AUSTRIA

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Saurn ower Leonard-Bernsein-Sraszlige 10

1220 Vienna Ausria +431288 44 0F +431288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ASERBAIDSCHAN

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Azerbaijan Branch Office

AZ1025 Baku ciy Khaayi di sric25 Sabi Orujov sree Aparmen 52 +431288 44 0F +341288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

mdash UNITED KINGDOM

Waagner Biro Ltd

Valian House 2nd Floor 4ndash10 Heneage Lane

London EC3A 5DQ Unied Kingdom +44207337 2240F +44207929 1880E inowaagnerbirocouk

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash DUBAI

Waagner Biro Stahlbau AG

Dubai Branch Office

Dubai Invesmen Park II Warehouse complexPO Box 8542 +97148855275F +97148855381

mdash POLAND

Waagner Biro Spoacutelka z oo

Al Armii Ludowej 26

00-609 Warsaw Poland +431288 44 0E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ABU DHABI

Waagner Biro Emirates Contracting L

Link Invesmen Building Plo 128 ndash Muroor (Office 102)PO Box 127687 Abu Dhabi ndash UAE +97124918818F +97124918819

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2425

VISITWAAGNER-BIRO

COM

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2525

WAAGNERBIROmdashmdashINSIGHT

STEEL GLASSSTRUCTURES

Page 20: Image Steel Glass11

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2025

mdashEVO LUTIONNOT

REVOLUTIONmdash

Queen Elizabeth II Great Court

British Museum London

20 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2125

In developing seel and glass gridshell sruc-ures he connecing nodes presen a paricular

challenge he node design has o be developedand individually engineered according o

wheher he glass elemens have r iangula r orquadraic suraces he developmen processesand he soware used o program robos o cuhese nodes rom seel are coninually beingadaped and reined o boos eiciency a highdegree o auomaion is always involved in plan-ning and producion

he challenge in such demanding projecs isha oen no subcomponen resembles anoher

So mass producion is hen no longer an opionor eiher he nodes or he glass panels

Flexible soluions are also required when realis-ing ambiious geomeries Te glass panelsrsquoproven riangular orm guaranees precisely hisdegree o flexibiliy Neverheless a quadraic

991252 I was somehing new somehing unprece-dened in is field Te ree-orm canopy ha

has spanned he Queen Elizabeh II GreaCour a he Briish Museum since 2000 isregarded as he railblazer or his paricular ypeo consrucion Museum visiors are me byhe unamiliar specacle o a 6000 m983218 seel andglass domed roo consising o innumerableriangular elemens Tis marvel o modernarchiecure was only possible hanks o agradual echnological evoluion

A brie review Archiecure is enduring Some buildings appear o have been buil or eerniy

and lose none o heir ascinaion ndash archiecural jewels l ike he Egyp ian pyramid s he ColiseumGohic cahedrals or he Palace o VersaillesTese maserpieces sill make an impac on usoday Tey are enduring symbols o humancreaiviy Te wheels o ime used o urn moreslowly While Egypian emple archiecureevolved litle in 1000 years modern archiecureis subjec o a much greaer demand or develop-men Tis drives odayrsquos expecaions or origi-nal designs and proves ha echnical innovaionsare in greaer demand han ever beore Only

hey enable he realizaion o he cliensrsquo andarchiecsrsquo visions

So i is more abou evoluion han revoluionechnological leaps orward like hose incommunicaion echnology are o litle or noimporance Tere is a ar greaer emphasis onhe coninual developmen o exising soluions

As a long-sanding seel consrucion specialis wih many years o ex perience Waagner-Birohas accrued immense proprieary experise andknow-how enabling i o develop all manner

o ailor-made soluions Tis developmen isprojec driven I is he resul o each conracrsquosspecific challenges

Consrucion projecs ofen involve massive fig-ures Several hundred or even housands o onso seel or concree are se in place While suchfigures are ruly impressive hey only ell hal hesory I is only when our atenion is direced ohe deails ha he rue skill is exposed

Anchoring node s or he seel cable accedilhe DR Byen in Copenhagen

orm or even a combinaion o boh orsomeimes required or economic or ar

ural reasons I is in his very field ha WBiro is co-operaing wih he Vienna Uo echnology ogeher hey have beeing how such geomeries can be combiorm oher gridshell shapes Te accediladeing o he ldquoFesival Ciyrdquo in Dubai or eemployed no only riangular bu also glass elemens Te same soluion was uroo he ldquoCour Visconirdquo o he Louvre

Te DR Byen in Copenhagen a mediaplanned by Jean Nouvel was anoher e

venure Te bui lding is enveloped on aa rhomboidal gridshell Ataching he so he nodal srucure was jus one o hlenges Even more ingenious was he spdeveloped ensioning sysem o ensurehe end all he differen lenghs o seel

were subjec o he same ensi le orce991252

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2225

991252You will find ambiious Waagner-Biro archi-ecural seel consrucions in many regions ohe world Te core markes are in Europe andhe Arab world In over 150 years he companyhas developed an ousanding repuaion cul-minaing in join venures wih highly renownedarchiecs and planners Te success o hesecooperaions is based on he ousanding qualiyo services and he developmen o individualengineering soluions or each projec991252

mdash SERVICE PORTFOLIO

Waagner-Birorsquos real srengh lies in high per or-mance in areas where ohers are already reachingheir limis

991252 Seel and glass building shells991252 Free-orm srucures and complex geomeries991252 Cable suppored srucures

eg pre-ensioned walls991252 Special soluions or challenging

aluminium accedilades

991252 Inegraed soluions involving addiionalmaerials like exile membranes

991252 Innovaive use o maerialslike load-bearing glass

991252 Soluions or complicaedramps sairs and mass

Te company also offers relevan service andmainenance opions (eg accedilade mainenancerenovaion modificaion)One secre o he success o Waagner-BiroSahlbau is is parnerships wih archiecs and

planning firms including

Architects Foser and Parners Jean NouvelSOM Murphy Jahn Asympoe Mario BelliniMassimiliano Fuksas KPF Wilkinson EyreHenning Larsen HOK Jerde ParnershipHeneghan Peng 3D Reid RMJM Hollein ecPlanning firms Arup Buro HappoldSchlaich Bergermann Parner Werner SobekIngenieure Fron Leonhard Andrauml undParner ec

mdash REFERENCES

Numerous reerences ates o Waagner-Birocompeence in seel consrucion Here is a boverview

991252 Reichsag dome BerlinGermany Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Sony Cener BerlinGermany Archiec Murphy Jahn

991252 Grea Cour Briish Museum LondonU Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Red Bull Hangar 7 SalzburgAusria Archiec Burgsaller

991252 Swiss Re ower (Dome) LondonUK Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Burj Khalia (Enrance pavilion) DubaiU Archiec Skidmore Owi ngs and Merri l

991252 Capial Gae Abu DhabiUAE Archiec RMJM Dubai

991252 Co-operaive Group (Corporaeheadquarers) MancheserUK

Archiec 3D Reid991252 Zloe arasy WarsawPoland

Archiec Te Jerde Parnership991252 Yas Island Marina Hoel Abu DhabiUA

Archiec Asympoe991252 Te Blob EindhovenNeherlands

Archiec Massimiliano Fuksas991252 Louvre ldquoCour Visconirdquo ParisFrance

Archiecs Mario Bell ini Rudy Riccioti991252 Baku Airpor erminal Azerbaijan

Archiec Arup991252 Bay Abdullah Kuwai

Archiec Marks Barfield Archiecs

mdash PORTRAIT mdash

22 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

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mdash AUSTRIA

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Saurn ower Leonard-Bernsein-Sraszlige 10

1220 Vienna Ausria +431288 44 0F +431288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ASERBAIDSCHAN

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Azerbaijan Branch Office

AZ1025 Baku ciy Khaayi di sric25 Sabi Orujov sree Aparmen 52 +431288 44 0F +341288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

mdash UNITED KINGDOM

Waagner Biro Ltd

Valian House 2nd Floor 4ndash10 Heneage Lane

London EC3A 5DQ Unied Kingdom +44207337 2240F +44207929 1880E inowaagnerbirocouk

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash DUBAI

Waagner Biro Stahlbau AG

Dubai Branch Office

Dubai Invesmen Park II Warehouse complexPO Box 8542 +97148855275F +97148855381

mdash POLAND

Waagner Biro Spoacutelka z oo

Al Armii Ludowej 26

00-609 Warsaw Poland +431288 44 0E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ABU DHABI

Waagner Biro Emirates Contracting L

Link Invesmen Building Plo 128 ndash Muroor (Office 102)PO Box 127687 Abu Dhabi ndash UAE +97124918818F +97124918819

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

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STEEL GLASSSTRUCTURES

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In developing seel and glass gridshell sruc-ures he connecing nodes presen a paricular

challenge he node design has o be developedand individually engineered according o

wheher he glass elemens have r iangula r orquadraic suraces he developmen processesand he soware used o program robos o cuhese nodes rom seel are coninually beingadaped and reined o boos eiciency a highdegree o auomaion is always involved in plan-ning and producion

he challenge in such demanding projecs isha oen no subcomponen resembles anoher

So mass producion is hen no longer an opionor eiher he nodes or he glass panels

Flexible soluions are also required when realis-ing ambiious geomeries Te glass panelsrsquoproven riangular orm guaranees precisely hisdegree o flexibiliy Neverheless a quadraic

991252 I was somehing new somehing unprece-dened in is field Te ree-orm canopy ha

has spanned he Queen Elizabeh II GreaCour a he Briish Museum since 2000 isregarded as he railblazer or his paricular ypeo consrucion Museum visiors are me byhe unamiliar specacle o a 6000 m983218 seel andglass domed roo consising o innumerableriangular elemens Tis marvel o modernarchiecure was only possible hanks o agradual echnological evoluion

A brie review Archiecure is enduring Some buildings appear o have been buil or eerniy

and lose none o heir ascinaion ndash archiecural jewels l ike he Egyp ian pyramid s he ColiseumGohic cahedrals or he Palace o VersaillesTese maserpieces sill make an impac on usoday Tey are enduring symbols o humancreaiviy Te wheels o ime used o urn moreslowly While Egypian emple archiecureevolved litle in 1000 years modern archiecureis subjec o a much greaer demand or develop-men Tis drives odayrsquos expecaions or origi-nal designs and proves ha echnical innovaionsare in greaer demand han ever beore Only

hey enable he realizaion o he cliensrsquo andarchiecsrsquo visions

So i is more abou evoluion han revoluionechnological leaps orward like hose incommunicaion echnology are o litle or noimporance Tere is a ar greaer emphasis onhe coninual developmen o exising soluions

As a long-sanding seel consrucion specialis wih many years o ex perience Waagner-Birohas accrued immense proprieary experise andknow-how enabling i o develop all manner

o ailor-made soluions Tis developmen isprojec driven I is he resul o each conracrsquosspecific challenges

Consrucion projecs ofen involve massive fig-ures Several hundred or even housands o onso seel or concree are se in place While suchfigures are ruly impressive hey only ell hal hesory I is only when our atenion is direced ohe deails ha he rue skill is exposed

Anchoring node s or he seel cable accedilhe DR Byen in Copenhagen

orm or even a combinaion o boh orsomeimes required or economic or ar

ural reasons I is in his very field ha WBiro is co-operaing wih he Vienna Uo echnology ogeher hey have beeing how such geomeries can be combiorm oher gridshell shapes Te accediladeing o he ldquoFesival Ciyrdquo in Dubai or eemployed no only riangular bu also glass elemens Te same soluion was uroo he ldquoCour Visconirdquo o he Louvre

Te DR Byen in Copenhagen a mediaplanned by Jean Nouvel was anoher e

venure Te bui lding is enveloped on aa rhomboidal gridshell Ataching he so he nodal srucure was jus one o hlenges Even more ingenious was he spdeveloped ensioning sysem o ensurehe end all he differen lenghs o seel

were subjec o he same ensi le orce991252

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

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991252You will find ambiious Waagner-Biro archi-ecural seel consrucions in many regions ohe world Te core markes are in Europe andhe Arab world In over 150 years he companyhas developed an ousanding repuaion cul-minaing in join venures wih highly renownedarchiecs and planners Te success o hesecooperaions is based on he ousanding qualiyo services and he developmen o individualengineering soluions or each projec991252

mdash SERVICE PORTFOLIO

Waagner-Birorsquos real srengh lies in high per or-mance in areas where ohers are already reachingheir limis

991252 Seel and glass building shells991252 Free-orm srucures and complex geomeries991252 Cable suppored srucures

eg pre-ensioned walls991252 Special soluions or challenging

aluminium accedilades

991252 Inegraed soluions involving addiionalmaerials like exile membranes

991252 Innovaive use o maerialslike load-bearing glass

991252 Soluions or complicaedramps sairs and mass

Te company also offers relevan service andmainenance opions (eg accedilade mainenancerenovaion modificaion)One secre o he success o Waagner-BiroSahlbau is is parnerships wih archiecs and

planning firms including

Architects Foser and Parners Jean NouvelSOM Murphy Jahn Asympoe Mario BelliniMassimiliano Fuksas KPF Wilkinson EyreHenning Larsen HOK Jerde ParnershipHeneghan Peng 3D Reid RMJM Hollein ecPlanning firms Arup Buro HappoldSchlaich Bergermann Parner Werner SobekIngenieure Fron Leonhard Andrauml undParner ec

mdash REFERENCES

Numerous reerences ates o Waagner-Birocompeence in seel consrucion Here is a boverview

991252 Reichsag dome BerlinGermany Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Sony Cener BerlinGermany Archiec Murphy Jahn

991252 Grea Cour Briish Museum LondonU Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Red Bull Hangar 7 SalzburgAusria Archiec Burgsaller

991252 Swiss Re ower (Dome) LondonUK Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Burj Khalia (Enrance pavilion) DubaiU Archiec Skidmore Owi ngs and Merri l

991252 Capial Gae Abu DhabiUAE Archiec RMJM Dubai

991252 Co-operaive Group (Corporaeheadquarers) MancheserUK

Archiec 3D Reid991252 Zloe arasy WarsawPoland

Archiec Te Jerde Parnership991252 Yas Island Marina Hoel Abu DhabiUA

Archiec Asympoe991252 Te Blob EindhovenNeherlands

Archiec Massimiliano Fuksas991252 Louvre ldquoCour Visconirdquo ParisFrance

Archiecs Mario Bell ini Rudy Riccioti991252 Baku Airpor erminal Azerbaijan

Archiec Arup991252 Bay Abdullah Kuwai

Archiec Marks Barfield Archiecs

mdash PORTRAIT mdash

22 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2325

E

mdash AUSTRIA

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Saurn ower Leonard-Bernsein-Sraszlige 10

1220 Vienna Ausria +431288 44 0F +431288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ASERBAIDSCHAN

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Azerbaijan Branch Office

AZ1025 Baku ciy Khaayi di sric25 Sabi Orujov sree Aparmen 52 +431288 44 0F +341288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

mdash UNITED KINGDOM

Waagner Biro Ltd

Valian House 2nd Floor 4ndash10 Heneage Lane

London EC3A 5DQ Unied Kingdom +44207337 2240F +44207929 1880E inowaagnerbirocouk

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash DUBAI

Waagner Biro Stahlbau AG

Dubai Branch Office

Dubai Invesmen Park II Warehouse complexPO Box 8542 +97148855275F +97148855381

mdash POLAND

Waagner Biro Spoacutelka z oo

Al Armii Ludowej 26

00-609 Warsaw Poland +431288 44 0E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ABU DHABI

Waagner Biro Emirates Contracting L

Link Invesmen Building Plo 128 ndash Muroor (Office 102)PO Box 127687 Abu Dhabi ndash UAE +97124918818F +97124918819

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2425

VISITWAAGNER-BIRO

COM

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

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WAAGNERBIROmdashmdashINSIGHT

STEEL GLASSSTRUCTURES

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991252You will find ambiious Waagner-Biro archi-ecural seel consrucions in many regions ohe world Te core markes are in Europe andhe Arab world In over 150 years he companyhas developed an ousanding repuaion cul-minaing in join venures wih highly renownedarchiecs and planners Te success o hesecooperaions is based on he ousanding qualiyo services and he developmen o individualengineering soluions or each projec991252

mdash SERVICE PORTFOLIO

Waagner-Birorsquos real srengh lies in high per or-mance in areas where ohers are already reachingheir limis

991252 Seel and glass building shells991252 Free-orm srucures and complex geomeries991252 Cable suppored srucures

eg pre-ensioned walls991252 Special soluions or challenging

aluminium accedilades

991252 Inegraed soluions involving addiionalmaerials like exile membranes

991252 Innovaive use o maerialslike load-bearing glass

991252 Soluions or complicaedramps sairs and mass

Te company also offers relevan service andmainenance opions (eg accedilade mainenancerenovaion modificaion)One secre o he success o Waagner-BiroSahlbau is is parnerships wih archiecs and

planning firms including

Architects Foser and Parners Jean NouvelSOM Murphy Jahn Asympoe Mario BelliniMassimiliano Fuksas KPF Wilkinson EyreHenning Larsen HOK Jerde ParnershipHeneghan Peng 3D Reid RMJM Hollein ecPlanning firms Arup Buro HappoldSchlaich Bergermann Parner Werner SobekIngenieure Fron Leonhard Andrauml undParner ec

mdash REFERENCES

Numerous reerences ates o Waagner-Birocompeence in seel consrucion Here is a boverview

991252 Reichsag dome BerlinGermany Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Sony Cener BerlinGermany Archiec Murphy Jahn

991252 Grea Cour Briish Museum LondonU Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Red Bull Hangar 7 SalzburgAusria Archiec Burgsaller

991252 Swiss Re ower (Dome) LondonUK Archiec Norman Foser

991252 Burj Khalia (Enrance pavilion) DubaiU Archiec Skidmore Owi ngs and Merri l

991252 Capial Gae Abu DhabiUAE Archiec RMJM Dubai

991252 Co-operaive Group (Corporaeheadquarers) MancheserUK

Archiec 3D Reid991252 Zloe arasy WarsawPoland

Archiec Te Jerde Parnership991252 Yas Island Marina Hoel Abu DhabiUA

Archiec Asympoe991252 Te Blob EindhovenNeherlands

Archiec Massimiliano Fuksas991252 Louvre ldquoCour Visconirdquo ParisFrance

Archiecs Mario Bell ini Rudy Riccioti991252 Baku Airpor erminal Azerbaijan

Archiec Arup991252 Bay Abdullah Kuwai

Archiec Marks Barfield Archiecs

mdash PORTRAIT mdash

22 mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURES

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2325

E

mdash AUSTRIA

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Saurn ower Leonard-Bernsein-Sraszlige 10

1220 Vienna Ausria +431288 44 0F +431288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ASERBAIDSCHAN

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Azerbaijan Branch Office

AZ1025 Baku ciy Khaayi di sric25 Sabi Orujov sree Aparmen 52 +431288 44 0F +341288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

mdash UNITED KINGDOM

Waagner Biro Ltd

Valian House 2nd Floor 4ndash10 Heneage Lane

London EC3A 5DQ Unied Kingdom +44207337 2240F +44207929 1880E inowaagnerbirocouk

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash DUBAI

Waagner Biro Stahlbau AG

Dubai Branch Office

Dubai Invesmen Park II Warehouse complexPO Box 8542 +97148855275F +97148855381

mdash POLAND

Waagner Biro Spoacutelka z oo

Al Armii Ludowej 26

00-609 Warsaw Poland +431288 44 0E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ABU DHABI

Waagner Biro Emirates Contracting L

Link Invesmen Building Plo 128 ndash Muroor (Office 102)PO Box 127687 Abu Dhabi ndash UAE +97124918818F +97124918819

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2425

VISITWAAGNER-BIRO

COM

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2525

WAAGNERBIROmdashmdashINSIGHT

STEEL GLASSSTRUCTURES

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E

mdash AUSTRIA

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Saurn ower Leonard-Bernsein-Sraszlige 10

1220 Vienna Ausria +431288 44 0F +431288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ASERBAIDSCHAN

Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG

Azerbaijan Branch Office

AZ1025 Baku ciy Khaayi di sric25 Sabi Orujov sree Aparmen 52 +431288 44 0F +341288 44 333E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

mdash UNITED KINGDOM

Waagner Biro Ltd

Valian House 2nd Floor 4ndash10 Heneage Lane

London EC3A 5DQ Unied Kingdom +44207337 2240F +44207929 1880E inowaagnerbirocouk

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash DUBAI

Waagner Biro Stahlbau AG

Dubai Branch Office

Dubai Invesmen Park II Warehouse complexPO Box 8542 +97148855275F +97148855381

mdash POLAND

Waagner Biro Spoacutelka z oo

Al Armii Ludowej 26

00-609 Warsaw Poland +431288 44 0E sahlbauwaagner-biroa

wwwwaagner-birocom

mdash ABU DHABI

Waagner Biro Emirates Contracting L

Link Invesmen Building Plo 128 ndash Muroor (Office 102)PO Box 127687 Abu Dhabi ndash UAE +97124918818F +97124918819

mdash STEEL GLASS STRUCTURE

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2425

VISITWAAGNER-BIRO

COM

8102019 Image Steel Glass11

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullimage-steel-glass11 2525

WAAGNERBIROmdashmdashINSIGHT

STEEL GLASSSTRUCTURES

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VISITWAAGNER-BIRO

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WAAGNERBIROmdashmdashINSIGHT

STEEL GLASSSTRUCTURES

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WAAGNERBIROmdashmdashINSIGHT

STEEL GLASSSTRUCTURES


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