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Engineering Global Structures Engineering Global Structures Contents Introduction 05 Innovation at WSP 09 Sectors Aviation 13 Commercial & Mixed Use 17 Cultural 21 Education 25 Government 29 Healthcare 33 Heritage Buildings 37 High Rise 41 Hospitality 45 Railway Stations 49 Residential 53 Retail 57 Science & Technology 61 Sports & Stadia 65 Services Blast Engineering 69 Building Enclosures & Façade Engineering 71 Building Information Modelling 73 Computational Design 75 Geotechnical & Ground Engineering 77 Peer Reviews 79 Performance Based Design 81 Site Specific Seismic Hazard & Risk Assessment 83 Steel Detailing 85 Structural Fire Design 87 Structural Vibration Analysis 89 Timber Engineering Design 91 Value Engineering 93 About Us 95 Get in touch 96 04 Engineering Global Structures / Introduction Introduction WSP’s structures practice is an award-winning, creative, and energetic team of 2,300 structural engineers, located in over 550 offices and 40 countries around the world. We work on projects of all sizes, types and levels of complexity, from some of the world’s most iconic buildings, to highly regarded regional projects. Our services span the structural engineering spectrum and are backed by global multidisciplinary capability. Our offices worldwide provide regional expertise. 05 International scale, regional reach We collaborate with architects, We marshal resources and We are locally dedicated with owners and builders on all types of communications for ownership and international scale. This means we projects, international and regional. design teams - or for multiple projects - provide our clients with regional insight Our practice is very diverse. Our that may be scattered across the globe. and timely, attentive service, combined projects range from renowned high- Our regional presence is key to this. with the resources, capabilities and rise buildings to state-of-the-art data Our global offices routinely collaborate strength of a global firm. As a result, centers, stadia, rail projects, hospitals with each other, to pool their specialist we have ongoing and repeat work with and heavy industrial plants, to name expertise and knowledge in pursuit of many of the world’s leading architectural but a few. excellence. firms and developers. Projects Fairscape Precinct One World Trade Center, Southern Cross Station, One Za’abeel, Dubai Gaborone, Botswana New York Melbourne The Montreal Tower, Cuarzo Reforma, Tele2 Arena, Stockholm The Shard, London Montreal Mexico City 06 Engineering Global Structures / Introduction Hearst Tower, New York, USA 07 We are at the forefront in using and developing new technologies and in advancing engineering research Collaborative edge Design efficiency We focus on adding value to projects through reviews, verifications, and Demanding projects - master plans, We pride ourselves on identifying coordination among all disciplines, and mixed-use complexes, and sometimes efficient ways to save material, improve we work to international standards – individual buildings - require creative the constructability of a project, we are an ISO accredited practice. multidisciplinary solutions. and reduce costs. As a result, we are Buildings Information Modelling (BIM) regularly asked by developers and We often practice, and prefer to has long been a staple of our work clients to review and improve designs practice, as part of a multidisciplinary and our expertise in digital design team with our talented building prepared by other engineers. technologies is deeply ingrained. services and transportation colleagues. We look at designs holistically to work We have collaborated with US We enjoy and participate actively out how structural creativity and software firm Autodesk to advance in the ‘give and take’ of the design efficiency can free up greater floor area the leading design package ‘Revit’ process to find the best solution to for sale or tenancy, to generate better since its inception and we use Revit, complex challenges. We believe that financial returns for our clients. Our together with other innovative digital holistic, comprehensive engineering service aim is to add value. technologies, to enhance our design solutions developed across the lines of We also create value by keeping work. conventional disciplines offer the best construction and material costs under in efficiency, cost and performance. In short, we understand that our control. We make difficult projects as designs are our product and strive Creative excellence easy as possible to build. This reduces to make them clear, comprehensive, time on site, and because using less coordinated and buildable. We bring fresh eyes to every project means designing more ingeniously, our we work on, to create options that approach improves project outcomes. make the most of each unique setting. We never lose sight of the bottom line. We develop alternatives early in the design process that inform, even help Technical excellence establish, the architect’s thinking. Hearst Tower in New York, The Index Our design philosophy is rooted in the in Dubai and Torre Cepsa in Madrid ‘hands-on’ approach of our technically- demonstrate how our structural oriented principals, senior managers engineering ideas can help create and project engineers. We are at the unique and iconic architecture. forefront in using and developing We bring the same energy and new technologies and in advancing passion to every project we work on, engineering research. underpinned by vast technical know- how and years of experience. 08 Engineering Global Structures / Innovation at WSP Innovation at WSP We are passionate about innovation and create a myriad of opportunities to do things differently, and to do things better - on every facet, of every project. Our goal is improved outcomes for our clients and all who benefit from our work. 09 Resilient design Future Ready Computational design Storm winds, heavy rains, destructive Future Ready is our programme to see Within our computational design earthquakes, and periods of intensely the future more clearly, and to work programme of applied research we focus hot weather are amongst the natural with clients to design for this future, as on developing geometrically complex events reported with increasing well as for today’s needs. structures. regularity in the world’s news We ask ourselves what we should do, We explore structural shapes once bulletins. To be future ready our built and could do, to make our designs as inconceivable, but now possible environment must stand up to the useful and attractive in the longer-term because they can be developed digitally, toughest tests. We design in resilience. as they will be when first built. and build models to test and verify Our pioneering projects set standards structural design that might once have Sometimes our response is counter- for future projects. For example, our defied definition in any reasonable intuitive. Do we need to design a patented seismic system implemented length of time. structure that will last for 200 years if in Torre Mayor, which at the time was the building is only going to be needed Our digital design workflow permits the tallest building in Mexico at 57 for 15 years, for example? Future ready extensive, continuous collaboration stories, is internationally recognized is not necessarily about longevity. between architects and engineers as the precursor to the current using a variety of design tools to solve performance-based design method now We believe flexibility and adaptability geometrical constraints. By working on used worldwide for this type of project. are important. Designing structures a shared canvas that can be altered and The system is used on many of the that can be used in different ways, or amended with much greater ease than newest buildings in earthquake even restructured in the future to meet ever previously possible, they can create zones, and also on some of the new or changed requirements, makes some truly astonishing structures. them future ready. oldest including our renovation of Structural design has always been the 140-year-old masonry and steel Increased automation – in healthcare, parametric because structural Canadian Parliament building in transport and manufacturing, to name parameters are variables, some with Ottawa. but a few sectors – means structures known limits, some not. But digital will need to change to accommodate parametric design tools take this new ways of living and working. New process into what can be - quite literally horizons beckon, and being prepared - other dimensions. What’s more, any means being future ready. parameter can be analysed, so it is possible within a model to examine options to reduce costs or make a structure more carbon efficient. This exciting arena is undoubtedly the future of construction design. Bench Office, Vancouver © Perkins + Will 10 Engineering Global Structures / Innovation at WSP Constrained Sites Rail Overbuild Offsite Manufacturing Complex foundations, difficult soil We are creating attractive With urban populations growing conditions, roads, railways, waterways accommodation over rail tracks and quickly around the world, there is a and adjacent buildings, are amongst the stations at an unprecedented rate, using pressing need to build many types reasons that potentially valuable sites new techniques and materials to reduce of structure economically, safely can be difficult to develop. noise, limit vibration, and enhance and quickly. More and more, we Many urban areas around the world ventilation. are designing offsite
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