Strabag completes model-based construction site
Schlieren ZH/Zürich - Strabag hat die Spezial- und Tiefbauarbeiten für ein Mehrfamilienhaus in Zürich Oerlikon modellbasiert und papierlos ausgeführt. Dabei hat ein Polier seine Baustelle mit Tablet und digitalen Plänen geführt.
Schlieren-based construction company Strabag has successfully completed its first paperless construction site, according to a press release. The special and civil engineering work for an apartment block in Zurich Oerlikon was carried out on a model-based basis, it added. The first BIM construction site for Strabag Spezialtiefbau has thus been completed. BIM stands for Building Information Modelling.
According to Strabag, in Zurich Oerlikon a total of six employees from the small and large drilling teams installed 100 tonnes of steel beams and tensioned 1,600 metres of strand anchors in around five months. Rühlwand girders are driven into the ground, vibrated into place or placed in boreholes. For the first time, a foreman from Strabag’s Specialised Civil Engineering department managed the construction site using a tablet and digital plans.
Near Zurich Oerlikon railway station, Strabag worked with Kuster Rückbau AG from Rümlang ZH to create the excavation pit for 52 rental flats that will be built here in the coming months. One challenge was the varying terrain heights when drilling the holes for the vault wall beams. The 80 beams were installed between 10 and 16 metres deep, according to Strabag’s report on the project.
“Thanks to the good cooperation within the teams and the efficient construction method, civil engineering and specialised civil engineering handed over the construction site on time, so that building construction was able to start work on schedule. Specialised civil engineering will continue to rely on BIM in the future,” reads the Strabag press release. “The collaboration between the contractors, the site management and the engineers was very cooperative and good,” construction manager Heshuan Kanskane is quoted as saying.