NAME: Giants Causeway Visitors Centre
LOCATION: Co Antrim, Northern Ireland
COST: £18.5 million
CLIENT: Gilbert Ash
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ACS was responsible for the provision of a 3D Building Information Model (BIM) for the Giants Causeway Visitors Centre. Prior to construction and during the design phase, the services of ACS were engaged directly by the main contractor Gilbert Ash, to create a 3D BIM model from the Architects and Engineers 2D drawings. ACS used Autodesk’s Revit Architecture and Tekla Structures to create the 3D model.
The building shape itself was extremely complex incorporating non-orthogonal design lines and shapes. The geometry of the cast-in-situ RC roof structure contained a large q...