In the UAE nobody has heart about a credit crisis for properties. Thousands of high-rise buildings are being finished and put on the market for sale. There is a variety of prices going from 500 EUR/m² up to 2000 EUR/m² and up, depending on the location in this desert city.
It is understandable that upscale apartments are found in the neighborhood of the thirst-quenching waterfront and on the future palm islands (Jebel Ali or Jumeirah). With min. 400.000 EUR in hands you will be able to join the many buyers from all over the world and enjoy the traffic jams of today. However a new metroline will be opened in september 2009 and a water canal is under study to turn Dubai into the future middle east touristic centre. Happily the neighbouring cities and states (Abu Dhabi, Qatar) are taking over the lead with more impressive architectural projects. Will an exodus from Europe start towards this region?
In the meantime Dubai and UAE are a MUST for students in architecture & engineering. Nowhere in the world one can testify the incredible speed of construction on so many sites at the same time. Be it concrete in situ, precast, posttensioning, steel, composite, it is all there and one can see it getting shape.
Scia is convinced of the importance of UAE and is setting up its office …. (to be continued)
Offering software to engineers is a tough profession. Engineers are eager to understand all functionalities of a comprehensive software product adapted to their needs. Engineers to engineers, it is the most direct way for succesfull business operations. It is true that a complete software product needs competent explanation. And who is more competent in engineering software than engineers themselves ? And it is very true that innovative concepts deserve attention of the future users.
The shortage of engineers in Europe may not lead to a regression for adopting innovative software by engineers. As a software supplier we strive to understand the issues to which our future users are confronted. Interoperability between programs? Complex engineering tasks? Productivity increases through new design & fabrication processes? Fully integrated company specific engineering work? New building codes? Automated drawings? Optimisation in design? Etc. etc.
E2E is our way to market. It differentiates us from other software suppliers. Our competent centres take care of sales, of training, of after-sales support, of consultancy. The success of the Nemetschek Engineering Group is precisely its deployment of E2E, in many countries of this world.
Have a look at this lagest swimming pool in the world in San Alfonso del Mar in Chile.
Really impressive!
It’s eight hectares in size and contains an incredible 250,000 cubic meters of water. Acknowledged by Guinness World Records as being the world’s largest swimming pool, the lagoon trounces all other record holders in the category. The San Alfonso pool is 1 km in length.
The revolutionary clear water artificial lagoons, transparent to a depth of 35 meters and unprecedented in design and construction methods, are the brainchild of Crystal Lagoons founder, biochemist and Chilean businessman Fernando Fischmann. Equivalent in size to an incredible 6,000 standard domestic pools, details of its technology are to be unveiled for the first time at Cityscape Dubai later this month.
During a business trip to Sao Paulo our eyes were opened on the many positive aspects of this big country: with a population of 180 million and a proven solid economical growth Brasil is an important member of BRICS.
Brasil is oriented towards Europe as one can see from the shops, the restaurants, the culture; its strong multiracial character shows the openess to the world. The climate is tropical and yet quite nice. The food is creative and of excellent quality. Although the traffic in a big city as Sao Paulo (3th largest city in the world) is stressing, the people are very efficient and move ahead.
There is much more to discover than the beaches of Copacabana or the carnaval of Rio. It may not yet be a popular tourist location, it will certainly become a place to be for business.
With strong support of FGK (Düsseldorf) SCIA worked out is corporate and product branding. Nemetschek Scia is strengthening the engineering spirit of the Nemetschek Group. Our identity is the focus on international and multicultural expansion, through strategic forward thinking & acting. Our clients also extend the boundaries of their projects: more international, more important. Our claim is “Inspiring people to move limits”; it is valid for our clients to whom we want to give more power for engineering design, and valid for our own organisation through continuous learning.
Scia Engineer is the name of our core product in CAE; it is the future software for structural B.I.M.. Modelling, design and detailing go hand in hand. In B.I.M. interoperability is the cornerstone, and there we want to be leading. Scia just received its IFC 2×3 certification, the first CAE supplier worldwide. Being well aware of the obstacles engineers are confronted with, if data are to be exchanged with other design partners (architects, engineers, fabricators), Scia is further working on its BIM workbench. Let us know your main issues when you apply digital exchanges of project data. We want to learn from you.
The Belgian prince Filip has presented the « Princess Elisabeth » polar station in Brussels. It is the first scientific structure with "zero emission". The goal of this polar base, which will be moved to the South Pole, is to study the effects of the climate change.
It is a unique enterprise… The polar base, Princess Elisabeth, which has been on exhibition and accessible to the general public in the port station ‘Tour & Taxis’ in Brussels, is a unique construction with regard to durable development.
Indeed, it will be the first station located on the South Pole that works only by renewable energy. The base will be equipped with 8 windmills and solar panels that cover the roof and the exterior walls of the structure; also a water recycling installation is provided. The station will be warmed using a system that combines passive solar heating and cogeneration that is recycling the heat rays that have been emitted by the energetic core, computers, light and even the human presence of the base. Concerning the isolation of the walls, the base avoids any heat loss and maintains the ambient temperature between 18 and 20°C. Moreover, the energetic efficiency of the concept, the energetic control system and the use of energy-saving equipment turns the station into a real "bio"construction prototype.
Next October, the German car manufacturer BMW will inaugurate its new, original and futuristic centre ‘BMW Welt (BMW World) in Munich. Entirely realized out of steel and glass, the building will contain a business space, shops and restaurants as well as rooms for business meetings.This impressive project was carried out using the software think project!¹, distributed to the Benelux countries by the company Online Projects (member of the SCIA Group).
The building, with a very futuristic architecture, arises as a spiral of glass and steel. It is a very avant-garde construction, composed of two cones, with a height of 28 meters and a diameter of 45 meter, which are placed ‘point against point’. The slope has the shape of a volute. The roof is also curved and supported by a cone.”A landscape of clouds” The architects’ firm Coop Himmelblau imagined the building; it offers a vision of “a landscape of clouds”. It will accommodate a commercial section, an interactive campus around the topic of mobility for children, shops and restaurants, a delivery point of cars and a centre for car accessories. “The idea is to create a BMW centre so as to make it possible for the customer to discover a real BMW world”.
In the UAE nobody has heart about a credit crisis for properties. Thousands of high-rise buildings are being finished and put on the market for sale. There is a variety of prices going from 500 EUR/m² up to 2000 EUR/m² and up, depending on the location in this desert city.
With strong support of FGK (Düsseldorf) SCIA worked out is corporate and product branding. Nemetschek Scia is strengthening the engineering spirit of the Nemetschek Group. Our identity is the focus on international and multicultural expansion, through strategic forward thinking & acting. Our clients also extend the boundaries of their projects: more international, more important. Our claim is “Inspiring people to move limits”; it is valid for our clients to whom we want to give more power for engineering design, and valid for our own organisation through continuous learning.
Scia Engineer is the name of our core product in CAE; it is the future software for structural B.I.M.. Modelling, design and detailing go hand in hand. In B.I.M. interoperability is the cornerstone, and there we want to be leading. Scia just received its IFC 2×3 certification, the first CAE supplier worldwide. Being well aware of the obstacles engineers are confronted with, if data are to be exchanged with other design partners (architects, engineers, fabricators), Scia is further working on its BIM workbench. Let us know your main issues when you apply digital exchanges of project data. We want to learn from you. 
