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10 Most Relevant Reasons Why You Need an MEP Design Company for Your Project Success

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No matter whether you are an architect, contractor, or a building owner, need for MEP consultants and engineers would be required. MEP stands for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing services. These are the basic services that need to be undertaken for the construction of new projects or for renovating projects. Having proper guidance and knowledge from the team the overall performance of the building will be optimized and the operating cost will be reduced to a certain extent. The MEP engineers and the entire team works closely with the architects and the owner of the project throughout the entire process. It is related to initiating the design, operation process, construction work, resource procurement, analyzing and evaluating the system that are required in this context of the entire project and service. The approach of MEP engineers gives assistance and allowance to implement the system that is integrated with the building architect and is considered to be a designed in perform...

Lloyd's building London, UK - SiliconInfo

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Futuristic, maximum usability and eye-catching are the features adorned by Lloyd’s Building of London. It is the centre of one of the oldest and reputed insurance company in world wide. Making its name from 17th Century, Lloyd’s of London has constructed its second expansion due to the overcrowding of their branch in Paris. It is located in the main financial district of London i.e. Lime Street. The architectural design has given by Richard Rogers. Its construction has started from 1978 and completed in 1986 . Lloyd’s building is the youngest building to receive the honor of Grad-I listing in 2011 . Lloyd’s building is 95.1 m high building contains 14 floors with 12 lifts/elevators. One of the innovative and unique features about Lloyd is the lifts, staircases, water pipes and electric power conduits. The 12 glass lift was the first of its kind taken place in United Kingdom. Due to the placement of services outside, the inside of building is very spacious and flexible w...

Heydar Aliyev Center Baku Azerbaijan - SiliconInfo

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Beautifully carved with graceful fluidity is how the architectural style of Heydar Aliyev Centre has followed. This centre has designed by Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid who is first woman to won the Design of the Year by London’s Design Museum in 2014 for Heydar Aliyev Center . She is the first woman in seventy-seven year’s history Design Museum to won the annual award. Heydar Aliyev Center is located in Baku, Azerbaijan. The construction of the Center has started from 2007 and completed in 10th May 2012 . It is named after the leader of soviet Soviet-era Azerbaijan from 1969- 1982 and president of Azerbaijan from October 1993 to October 2003 , Heydar Aliyev. Despite being the winner of Design Museum’s Design of the Year Award in 2014, it has nominated for both the World Architecture Festival and the biennial Inside Festival in 2013.  Heydar Aliyev Centre is a building complex especially made various cultural programs and exhibitions. The architectural style of centr...

JW Mariott Marquis Dubai UAE - SiliconInfo

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Marriott Internationals – a world renowned American hospitality company whose franchise is spread all over the world have its 59th major franchise in Dubai which is growing rapidly its name in hotel industries is JW Marriott Marquis. Adding to the luxury and style quotient of Dubai, JW Marriott Marquis is located in Sheikh Zayed Rd of Dubai. Holding the record of world’s tallest hotel, it is surrounded with some great mark of progresses which is leading Dubai towards some great urban growth. Those are Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai International Airport and the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre. The Construction of hotel has started from 2006 . One of its tower completed in January 2012 while another one in 2014 . It is owned by Emirates group and Architecture by Arch Group Consultants. The design of the hotel is inspired by postmodern Architectural design which is quite evident of the shape i.e. trunk of palm tree. JW Marriott is 72 storey towers whi...
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Flatiron Building is one of the iconic buildings in the history of New York city so much so that the entire neighbourhood started knowing as Flatiron District. It is located in 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, New York. Originally known as Fuller Building, the popular title i.e. Flatiron has derived from cloth iron due to its close resemblance to shape of the wedge. Designed by the leading American Designer Daniel Hudson Burnham , at initial stage, Burham’s architectural design for Flatiron has been questioned by critics in terms of stability. However, its eye-catching design and ability to stand against time has proved everyone wrong and went ahead being the landmark of New York city. Established in 1902 , the Flatiron Building has gained the status of National Historic Landmark in 1989 and added in the register of historic places in 1979. Flatiron Building is designed as steel framed triangular consist of 22 storey, measured up to 307 feet. In the clear skyli...

Guidelines of Building Information Modeling (BIM) for General Contractors & Sub-contractors

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In recent years, the function of general contractors are simplified to larger extent, goes all the credit to Building Information Modelling . Most of the tasks done by general contractors and Sub-contractors have its perfect solution/aids in BIM provided some leading service provider for instance, Autodesk Navisworks, Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD and Autodesk Building Design Suite (BDS) to name the few. 3D, 4D and 5D BIM are useful for general contractors. At 3D BIM, the clear and accurate visual 3 dimensional images simplified the work and avoid the reworking which happens due to clash detection. Contrary to that, 4D Building Information Modeling deals with on-site construction activities leads to keep the contractors updated about the day to day action of practical work while the 5D Building Information Modeling (probably the most beneficial) manages the financial aspect of construction project to avoid the unnecessary wastage of money. Due its worldwide adoption in the countries ...