BuroHappold Archives

16/11/2017

Fabricating Complexity in Concrete with #iceformwork

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ESR9- SIMULATING CONCRETE FORMWORK

AUTHOR: VASILY SITNIKOV

In order to minimize the amount of cement involved in concrete constructions, the concrete industry today chooses to reduce the share of cement in the total mass of concrete. This approach leads to lower mechanical properties of...

11/03/2017

#iceformwork – A New Type of Formwork for Ultra-High Performance Concrete

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ESR9- SIMULATING CONCRETE FORMWORK

AUTHOR: VASILY SITNIKOV

To increase performance of concrete constructions, concrete industry chooses to reduce the amount of cement in concrete they use. This approach leads to lower mechanical properties of concrete, resulting in thicker floor slabs and...

06/05/2016

Trial Procedure

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ESR9- SIMULATING CONCRETE FORMWORK

AUTHOR: VASILY SITNIKOV

Concrete is the most used material in the world. This simple fact preconditions a countless variety of technologies that branch in all thinkable ways from the very basic concept of casting. Besides an ever extending catalog of mixture...

03/03/2016

Concrete Technology Advancement

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ESR9- SIMULATING CONCRETE FORMWORK

AUTHOR: VASILY SITNIKOV

The research aspires to establish a greater role for simulation in concrete design and building technology, to make it an intrinsic and deeply integrated tool that mediates the design between technological stages. The impetus for...

02/03/2016

Al Fisher

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Dr Al Fisher is an associate at BuroHappold Engineering, based in London where he leads Computational Engineering for the practice. A structural engineer with a background in computational design, he has particular interest in the geometry of freeform architecture, where engineering efficiency and form are so inextricably linked.

29/02/2016