WSP Construction Design - WSP Group

WSP Construction Design

A characteristic feature of good construction design is that no unexpected disruptions occur.
Designing buildings is one thing – handling complete projects is entirely something else. You can
keep track of our work throughout the project period, from the initial idea to the property
management stage. The earlier you involve us, the greater the responsibility we can take.
Tighter deadlines and changing methods
Building design is becoming increasingly sophisticated. Projects
are carried out with ever tighter time limits and new
methods of construction are being developed. This makes
great demands on planning and design methodology.
Right team for each project
Expert personnel are WSP’s greatest and most important resource.
With the backing of skilled staff and a strong organisation,
we are always able to put together the team best suited
to each project. This applies both to large, extensive projects
and to smaller and quicker assignments. We adapt our efforts
to maximise customer benefit.
Competitions – a good way of gauging our own
capability
For a knowledge-based company, competitions are a good way
of gauging its own capability. Therefore we are proud to be
able to point out projects we have gained through challenging
and creative solutions, which have increased the added
value of the buildings through innovative technology and a
comprehensive perspective.
The compact building process
We live in a time of rapid change. This is one reason why
people today often want to be able to take step-by-step decisions
on parts of the project along the way. Present day reality
also means that it is almost always considered essential to
minimise the total project time, i.e. the time from investment
decision to completion. The aim is to increase certainty and
reduce risk-taking.
The compact building process is a reality today, and will
be even more so in the future. It makes it necessary for high
quality work to be done in both decision planning and project
management. It also entails a model of implementation
for the design and construction on site as well as monitoring
and controlling project cost development. WSP has the experience,
methodology, developed support documents and routines
to meet the requirements for short times, successive
decisionmaking and optimum project result.
On the front cover, some prize-winning projects:
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1. Kista Science Tower, White Arkitekter
(Photo: Mark Earthy/Pressens Bild)
2. Stockholm Globen Arena, Bergs Arkitekter
3. Malmö City Library, Henning Larsen Tegnestue
4. Stockholm, Southern Link ventilation system,
Tengbom Arkitekter, artist Leif Bolter
5. Frescati Aula Magna, Ralph Erskine
6. Stockholm, Ericsson, Main Entrance
Bjurström & Brodin Arkitekter
Kista Science Tower.
A 32-storey, 158 metre high and just over 41 000 sq.m. large offi ce building. The building has a triangular shape and double-glazed facades,
and is a new landmark for Kista.
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Working on assignment
The essential requirements of the project are the
point where our work begins
During our planning of the assignment, we identify the essential
requirements of the project and the client’s expectations.
These are transformed into optimal solutions on the
basis of given functional and technical requirements as well
as environmental demands within specified financial and time
constraints. During the course of the design work we make
sure that the demands are worked into the documents.
Assignment control at all stages
This approach forms the basis for how we conduct our assignments.
It means that you, as the client, obtain a solution
that has the necessary potential for ensuring that a finished
structure or building will meet stipulated demands and preferences.
With an established and jointly approved quality and
environmental plan, assignment and cost control are conducted
on the one hand with in-house developed software for
follow-up and assignment reporting, and on the other hand
with routines linked to WSP’s financial system. The reporting
of completed and remaining work is normally done on a
monthly basis in hours and costs, and can be adapted to suit
the client’s requirements.
WSP is quality certified in accordance with SS-EN ISO
9001:2000 and environmentally certified to SS-EN ISO
14001. Our work on assignments follows specially developed
environmental methods and a list of environmental aspects.
The same model for implementation – from start of assignment
to completion – makes it possible to achieve the right quality and
cost effectiveness.
The assignment process routines and aids are based on experience
within WSP and meets the requirements of the standards
SS-EN ISO 9001 and 14001.
Our routines, aids and templates for carrying out the assignment.
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Our project types and skills
Our experience of both new construction and conversion can be applied in all stages of the project -
experience we have acquired over a long period of time by working on a large range of projects,
all the way from the early stages, through participation in competitions and not least through high-qualifi ed
conversion projects, such as inner-city and industrial projects.
Our project types, skills and top-level expertise are summarised below.
Top-level expertise
• Structural and construction engineering design of steel,
concrete (incl. prestressed), timber, brick, stone, glass and
plastic structures.
• Building dynamics with regard to frame structures,
machine foundations and vibration-free foundations.
• Building engineering and building physics with regard to
load-bearing capacity, build ability, durability, effect of fire,
moisture and environmental issues.
• Risk analysis of larger building complexes and tunnels, e.g.
with respect to transport of hazardous goods and fire
analyses.
• Structural engineering and design calculations, of tall
buildings, including wind-tunnel studies (CFD analysis),
dynamic analysis (wind, human comfort, passive and active
mass damping and optimisation of the stability of frame
structures).
• Roof and terrace damage investigations.
Our services
• Design of buildings and civil engineering structures.
• Building design, building technology and building physics.
• Conversion and renovation engineering.
• Building statics and dynamics.
• Technical surveys and damage investigations.
• Technical development in projects for the construction
industry.
• R&D.
• Fire protection documentation and fire protection
engineering.
• Risk/impact assessment.
• Quality responsibility in accordance with the Planning
and Building Act, PBL.
• Air-raid shelter expertise.
• 3D design and 3D analysis.
• Foundation preservation techniques, WSP Terrasond.
In close co-operation with WSP Management, we also offer:
• Design management.
• Construction management.
• Technical inspection.
• Performance specifications.
• Costings.
General building construction
• Offices
• Institutes of higher education and
universities
• Business and conference centres
• Hotels and apartment blocks
• Retail
• Research facilities
• Hospitals and health centres
• Museums, libraries and churches
• Cinema complexes
• Banks and police stations
• Public swimming baths
• Refurbishment/conversion of arts centres
and listed buildings
Industrial buildings
Heavy industry
• Forest industry
• Mining and minerals industry
• Steel industry
• Energy installations
• Water and sewage treatment
plants
• Petrochemical industry
• Chemical industry
Light industry
• Pharmaceutical industry
• Food industry
• Electronic industry
Other types of industry
• Manufacturing industry
• Automotive industry
• Distribution centres
Infrastructure
• Stadia and Arenas
• Airports
• Train and bus terminals
• Travel centres
• Metro/underground stations
• Rescue centres
• Command centres
• Rock cavern facilities
• Hangars
• Decking over structures, bridges
and tunnels
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Rational implementation, building methods and effective
design work are based on continuous R&D
We are constantly developing within our assignments and in the R&D projects that we conduct either inhouse
or in co-operation with institutes of higher education and universities. Our concentration on development
is important to be able to create final solutions with a focus on totality in terms of implementation
period, quality, function and cost.
Development takes place continuously in the
following areas:
• Implementation models
• Procurement and payment models
• Short implementation periods
• Project management
• Efficient design
• Technical solutions
• Environmental issues
• Dynamic analyses
• Material issues, steel and concrete
• 3D design
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Dynamic FEM analysis of a machinery foundation.
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Technical reports, directions, thesis and notices
form part of the quality assurance work.
Flat slab constructions with patented
shear reinforcement, which results in
smaller quantities of reinforcement and
endows the structure with great ductility.
Efficient execution as the reinforcement is
separated into different layers.
Radical conversions require special building
methods, a developed implementation
plan and follow-up procedure with
active design during the period of construction.
Analysis of wind pressures and wind loads
occurring in the wind tunnel (CFD analysis)
for Kista Science Tower.
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We also have capacity and ample experience in
extremely large and complex projects.
Musi Pulp Mill, Sumatra
A new complete pulp mill producing
500,000 tonnes a year. The construction design
was accomplished in 12 months in Indonesia
with local sub-consultants under the
direction of WSP.
Swedish Match
New snuff factory in Kungälv, 23,000 sq.m.
An EPCM (engineering, procurement, construction,
management) assignment for WSP
including technical design of construction,
ground, environment, electricity, control and
automation.
Käppala waste water treatment
plant
An extensive infrastructure project in which
large resources and specialist skills were
required for the design of both building related
and process-related parts of the construction.
SSAB, Oxelösund
The rolling plate mill was converted into
one of the most efficient in the world while
operation continued. The structural design
required considerable adaptation to the
building work with respect to timetable,
temporary structures and loads.
Physics centre
WSP assisted with the winning competition
entry. The extreme requirements for the
cleanliness and freedom from vibrations of
the premises made great demands on the
building and structural design of the facility.
Architect, Henning Larsens Tegningstue, Copenhagen.
City Cronan
Offices 48,000 sq.m. 50 apartments. A conversion
and extension project where the
frame structure and erection in stages has
been adapted to the locations and the loadbearing
capacity of traffic and service tunnels
underneath. The inner courtyard has a
glazed roof with a steel structure of minimalist
design. Reflex Arkitekter, Stockholm
Arlanda Nord 2002
Pier F, the Passage building and the new Terminal
North building, a new expansion of
Arlanda Airport for increased capacity and
adaptation to the Schengen Agreement.
Steel frame structure and bracing-free filigran
steel-concrete composite floor structures.
Large roof truss cantilevers, doubleglazed
facades, suspended floor structure in
roof truss. KHR Arkitekter Copenhagen.
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Boliden has carried out an upgrading of the
entire melting plant and an increase in capacity
to make it one of the most modern
plants in the world, with regard also to
environmental issues. The upgrade has been
completed in stages while operation continues,
with frame structure solutions adapted
accordingly. WSP has been responsible
for building design, geo-engineering and fire
protection dimensioning.
Högdalen BIO6 CHP plant
New biofuel-fired boiler 95 MW and refuse
incineration boiler 75 MW, as well as reception
hall, flue-gas scrubbing turbine and ash
silo building. The expansion has been carried
out in stages within an energy facility already
in heavy use. WSP has been responsible for
building design and geo-engineering.
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3D design – the natural choice in our projects
3D design is today an obvious and necessary choice for designers, contractors and clients/users. Obvious
because the co-ordination advantages for all the disciplines involved are significant and necessary because
today’s strained time schedules, with design and construction running in parallel, demand zero faults and the
capacity to be able to rapidly localise the consequences of, for example, a change.
3D in practice
The concept of 3D design includes, as a
natural component, 3D scanning which
is a fantastic aid in representing reality
in three dimensions. The generated 3D
model of reality is integrated into the
design model in order to be able to localize
collision points directly or quite
simply to adapt the design to suit existing
conditions.
A terrain model in 3D with levels for
ground surface, rock and different types
of soil is inserted into a 3D model in
order later to analyse necessary excavation
requirements and volumes.
Complicated structures and dynamically
loaded structures require analysis
and dimensioning in 3D. Within WSP,
we use ANSYS, STAAD, Robot Millennium
and Strusoft. The advantage
of these programs is that you can export
data from and import data to the 3D
model.
In large complex projects within the
process industry, co-operation between
building consultants, process consultants
and other players is an important part
of the design work, and the principal
model is built in PDMS. Our 3D
model in Tekla Structures is exported to
PDMS with a conversion program that
retains intelligence in the 3D model.
WSP is Sweden’s largest user of the
3D program Tekla Structures, which is
a multi-material CAD tool with large
built-in intelligence. The above activities
are compiled in the Tekla model and
therefore provide excellent input at all
stages of the design work.
Kungsbron, Stockholm
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Advantages and potential
• Bills of quantities can be generated for all materials. This includes the content
of reinforcement and the area of formwork for concrete, the weight of prefabricated
elements and the volumes of rock and soil excavation.
Vällingby, Stockholm
Load-bearing structure for glazed roof
• Production planning for the erection of structural frames, which is important
for crane positioning, scaffolding and stockpiles.
• Overview of time schedules. By means of so-called 4D technology the progress
of construction can be followed on a day-by-day or week-by-week basis.
Critical points can be illustrated directly.
• Help with reinforcement. Complicated concrete reinforcement areas can be
illustrated to clarify complicated cross-sections.
• CNC control of machinery for steel structures. Basic input is mailed directly
to the steel supplier workshop, which then can start entering the information
into its machine.
• A faster descision-making process. Operational staff concerned can use the
model on the web to give their views on the position of service points, stockpiles,
lifting areas, etc.
PDMS, Jiang Lin, China
Pulp mill, Pipe bridge
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WSP is a global company that offers qualified consultancy services for the public sector and
the environment. With more than 100 offices around the world, and 6 000 employees, WSP is
one of the largest consulting companies in Europe, and amongst the ten largest in the world.
Operations are concentrated primarily in England and Sweden, but also extend to the rest of
Europe, the United States, Africa and Asia.
For our customers, this means being able to enjoy the benefits of our unique specialist expertise
and our wide range of services. We maintain a strong local presence on each market,
while, at the same time, our network of specialists contributes the skills, expertise and resources
needed to achieve the best solutions. In Sweden, WSP is a nationwide consultancy company
employing 1 900 people.
Operations are conducted through the business areas:
WSP Architecture
WSP Construction Design
WSP Environmental
WSP International
WSP Management
WSP Civils
WSP Systems
We operate in the following locations:
Borlänge • Falköping • Gothenburg • Helsingborg • Kalmar • Karlstad • Kiruna • Kristianstad
Linköping • Luleå • Lund • Malmberget • Malmö • Norrköping • Piteå
Skellefteå • Stockholm • Sundsvall • Torsby • Umeå • Varberg • Ystad • Örebro
• Örnsköldsvik • Östersund
WSP Construction Design
Arenavägen 7
SE- 121 88 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel: +46 (0)8 688 60 00
Fax: +46 (0)8 688 69 99
www.wspgroup.se