MagiCAD at work Helsinki Music Centre sounds better with BIM The professional’s choice for Building Services Partners working in harmony Helsinki Music Centre – Musiikkitalo in Fin nish – is “The project is designed entirely in 3D. It gives the a large and prestigious project. The building will benefits of collision control between design disci - be home to the Sibelius Academy, the Helsinki Phil - plines, for example between HVAC and cable trays, harmonic Orchestra and the Radio Symphony even before installation. It also gives a visual pres - Orchestra. HVAC and electrical installations were entation which is very helpful. Working in 3D in designed in MagiCAD by the Finnish companies MagiCAD allows us to fit cable trays and switch - Granlund Oy and Lausamo Oy. boards in the building’s tight spaces. With 2D design, it would have been impossible or at least very hard Musiikkitalo will replace the current national con - to design and it would have needed more final cert hall built in 1971. Its grand opening is sched - checks at the worksite before installation,” says uled for 31 August 2011. For a building of this kind, Roni Leppänen, CAD manager at Lausamo. the acoustics are of course top priority. The world- renowned Japanese company Nagata Acoustics was brought in at an early stage, with planning begin - ning as far back as 1997. Acoustic requirements also affect the installations, with stringent demands placed on the ventilation system in particular. The main concert hall seats 1,700 people, and the building also has five smaller halls for 150-300 people. Air quality and temperature must provide maxi - mum comfort all year round, without generating disturbing noise – even when the music is played pianissimo . Responsible for designing all the ventilation sys - tems, Granlund Oy used MagiCAD’s integrated sound calculations to their full extent. Since Magi - CAD provides designers with real products contain - ing the manufacturer’s data for sound levels at dif - ferent flows, they can make reliable calculations for the entire system. “Because the acoustics are key to the project, it has been very important that we have had the chance to balance the ventilation system in advance and examine the acoustics of the ducts and systems with MagiCAD,” says Jukka Tyni, design manager MagiCAD applications in this project at Granlund. Ventilation Heating & Piping BIM and 3D all the way Sprinkler The entire Musiikkitalo building and all its parts are Comfort & Energy designed according to BIM. Working in 3D is neces - Electrical sary for the integration to be effective. Circuit Designer Planning and project management is of course Functions used important to reach the desired benefits of BIM. Building services design Timetables and information exchange must be Network balancing checked carefully. Pressure calculations Sound calculations In this project there were many structural and Collision control architectural changes during the design phase, Material lists for cost estimation by contractor resulting in many changes to the HVAC models. IFC export to structural designers Installations were coordinated in advance with the Visualisation via Navisworks and Solibri structural designers to find and correct any prob - Model used for installation support at work site lems before starting the installation work. Integrated design brings better result s Visualisation means understanding Requirements for sustainability The entire model – architecture, structure and Senate Properties, owner and developer of building services – has been used to present solu - Musiikkitalo, is Finland’s largest property asset tions and obtain feedback from the building’s own - manager. It has been actively promoting Building ers and users. MagiCAD models have been IFC- Information Modeling (BIM) for many years. exported to special visualisation software. Models of the installations have also been used on the con - The goal is to make the facility management, struction site for planning and carrying out the design and building processes more effective installation work. Being able to decide the order of through integration of processes and workflows the installations has been a great benefit since the across all partners and all phases of the project. building is complicated and space is restricted. Senate Properties also sees BIM as a way to reduce Simulations before decisions energy consumption and environmental impact. The exterior design for Musiikkitalo incorporates One requirement for project partners is to work glass curtain walls. They are becoming more and with models that meet the IFC standard - Open BIM. more popular, for both aesthetic and practical rea - sons. Granlund performed simulations in MagiCAD Project facts Comfort & Energy to evaluate heating and cooling Effective floor area Approx. 36,000 m 2 needs for different designs. Building volume Approx. 250,000 m 3 Helsinki has an average annual temperature of 5°C, HVAC and cooling Olof Granlund Oy so the simulation showed that heating needs out - Electrical Lausamo Oy weighed cooling needs. Even if large glass surfaces Construction Vahanen Oy/Senate Properties require more cooling during the warmest season, Architect LPR Arkkitehdit Oy the extra solar energy for heating gives a better Contractor SRV Yhtiöt Oy year-round performance. These simulations are a Developers Property OY Musiikkitalo great source of information when making decisions Senate Properties that will impact the building’s energy bills for many Building owners Senate Properties years to come. YLE City of Helsinki Olof Granlund Oy’s core business is building serv - Lausamo Consulting Ltd is a Finnish consulting ices, consulting services and software development company active in the Nordic region, the Baltic for building design and facility management. The countries and Russia, as well as in a number of Granlund Group is active in Scandinavia, central countries in Europe, the Far East and China. Europe and north-east Asia. 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