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Crown HousePROJECT: Mechanical and electrical services for eight of the exhibition zones within the Millennium Dome. PROBLEM: The complexity of the Body Exhibition structure (i.e., the hoops, skin supports, primary and secondary steel work, and pedestals supporting the raised floor) ensured that the co-ordination would be a very difficult process. SOLUTION: Crown House used JetStream to identify clashes, and communicate the design between the site operatives and the co-ordination team. RESULTS: JetStream allowed the Millennium Dome project team to realise their own design constraints and achievements and to ensure that their design systems will also work. |
The benefits for building services - Crown House and the Millenium Dome
Crown House Engineering, a division of Carillion PLC, carried out the mechanical and electrical services for eight of the exhibition zones within the Millennium Dome, the largest building of its type in the world and home of the United Kingdom's official celebrations of the new millennium. Crown House Engineering was responsible for the co-ordination of all mechanical and electrical services within these exhibition zones, including the Body Zone. The Body Zone sculpture weighed 600 tons, measures 90 feet high and 210 feet long, and contained nearly three miles of electrical cable. Crown House Engineering relies on JetStream from NavisWorks to help ensure that all their project is completed to the highest standard and on schedule.
Crown House Engineering Says:
Had it not been for JetStream, we would have had a major problem in the visualisation and realisation of the co-ordination of all mechanical and electrical services contained within the Body Zone.
The complexity of the Body Exhibition structure (i.e., the hoops, skin supports, primary and secondary steel work, and pedestals supporting the raised floor) ensured that the co-ordination would be a very difficult process.
Crown House Engineering found JetStream software enabled identification of clashes much easier. We were able to see exactly what services had to be re-coordinated by means of zooming in on potential clashes, cutting sections through the model as and where required, and rotating the model with comparable ease to cover all perspectives. Our co-ordination clashes have been reduced.
JetStream has, for Crown House Engineering, ensured that communication between the site operatives and the co-ordination team is a lot more fluid. Foremen can now become actively involved in a real-time situation, by taking themselves through the installation in 3D model form, prior to ordering materials. This has the added advantage of the foremen appreciating the extent of the installation without having to read six or seven hard copy drawings.
Our co-ordinators are also receiving feedback from the foremen, in terms of constructive criticism, which is in turn ensuring a far more efficient and economical installation than could have been achieved from standard 2D drawings.
The Millennium Dome management team, architects, consulting engineers, etc., have utilised the Body model that Crown House has created to realise their own design constraints and achievements and to ensure that their design systems will also work. This has created a very amicable working relationship between the management team and ourselves, which has benefited all parties involved.
Simon Gibbins, Crown House Engineering
Models courtesy of Crown House Engineering, a division of Carillon PLC. Original design by Branson Coates Architecture.