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Meet the Zahner Team at Facades+

Tuesday, April 19th, 2016

Respected engineering and fabrication company A. Zahner Company is participating in the 2016 Façades+ Conference this week to promote the team’s system for creating unique façades and for improving design throughout the construction process.

CEO/President L. William Zahner will speak about the company’s technologies, techniques, and successes around the world.

Zahner VDC Technical Specialist Kyle Watson (left) will deliver an all-day workshop alongside Jonathan Asher of Dassault Systèmes (right).

Zahner Technologist Jim Nordstrom will also be onsite to answer questions and listen to feedback on what Zahner can do to improve your AEC workflows.

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Offsite Construction and Prefabrication in Civil Engineering

Thursday, April 14th, 2016

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Prefabrication in #CivilEngineering | @3DSAEC

Prefabrication is the designing and manufacturing of assemblies under factory conditions, then transporting them to—and assembling them on—a construction site. The technique is most widely used for concrete and steel sections in structures where a particular part or form is repeated many times.

In civil engineering, prefabrication plays a key role in the construction of bridges, roads, tunnels, and more. Prefabrication can be used for:

cantilevered decks of elevated bridges in highway projects
parapets of expressways and road curbs
precast girder units and beams for elevated roadways, tracks, viaducts, and pedestrian footbridges
decks for long span bridges
tunnel linings, especially for tunnels formed by tunnel boring machine
sea walls
railway platforms
noise barrier panels
overhanging ducts and service channels for underground facilities
storm water discharge culverts
and many other elements of a civil design project

Contributing Factors to the Prefabrication Trend in Civil Engineering

The main reasons for prefabrication construction is to reduce the overall time period of construction time on a project. This time savings can yield significant budget savings.

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Spotlight on CadMakers Virtual Construction

Thursday, April 7th, 2016

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AEC Industry Solution Experiences on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform enables designers to view 18 floors of MEP elements at fabrication LOD 400 on what will be the world’s tallest wood building.

SMARTER BUILDING

CadMakers Virtual Construction understands that the cost to construct a building is a small percent of the total lifecycle cost the structure. The company thinks it’s just as important to efficiently plan for maintenance as it is to build a structure, which is why CadMakers takes a holistic view of the AEC process.

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just as important as building a structure

“People have thought that you can’t use manufacturing best practices in AEC because everything is different in our industry,” explained Javier Glatt, co-founder and CEO of CadMakers, a service company built to streamline the AEC industry and has executed 35 projects worth over US$3 billion in construction value since early 2014. “But new technologies, such as the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform, are enabling this industry to automate processes and create a lot of value.”

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