SCIA user stories

The Nant de Drance pumped storage project is a hydroelectric power facility in Switzerland with a capacity of 900 MW.

The structure has an intricate geometry that consists of a series of stacked toroids which are offset, on plan from floor to floor resulting in set-backs and cantilevers to the external elevation and to the inside face of the forum.

At this time at the Zaventem airport in Belgium, where hall number 40 stood before, a new building is being built.

Along the A20 highway at Maassluis a new innovative international head office, R&D centre and production hall for the Lely group has been implemented.

Following an international contest initiated by the French Ministry of Culture, Rudy Ricciotti was assigned to design and realize the MuCEM.

Winner "Inspirations in Engineering" User Contest 2013. The design for the Vluchthaven footbridge provides for an object that stands out for its graciousness and oneness.

The Wuhan New Energy Institute including an Exhibition Center is a new-built project of 70.000 m2 gross in the Wuhan Future City development zone in Wuhan, China. 

The Ministry of Heritage and Culture (MoHC) of the sultanate of Oman had the ambition to construct a large cultural centre in Muscat and transform it into a meeting place and true urban centre of the city.

Service area – a reinforced – concrete structure featuring three funnel – shaped columns that support a melded trio of curvy horizontal discs.

The freeform architectural design made it a challenge to use traditional structural analysis software on that project. With SCIA Engineer, KPFF were able import and reuse the architectural model, derive an analysis model, and the automatic meshing capabilities provided a mesh that was clean.

This project is about one of the largest stages ever toured in any field of entertainment. The structure’s central grid is raised 28 metres high, with legs traversing the width of a soccer pitch.

The size and complexity of the museum made it a very special challenge to design the different sub-structures: the base, the cloud and the crystal. Load panels were used to apply the wind tunnel loads and the “absences” tool proved quite useful. The full model contains 27,000 nodes, 32,000 beams and 7,000 load panels.