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Largest Steel Framed Building in
Denmark Completed on StruCad by CSK Stålindustri A/S
 CSK
is a multidiscipline Structural Steelwork Fabricator, with its head office in
Thisted, Denmark and with offices in Aarhus and Copenhagen in Denmark as well as
office and production facilities both in Denmark and Tukums, Latvia. CSK has just been
responsible for the fabrication and erection of a significant steel framed
building on a 60 acre site close to Hillerød, 25 miles north of Copenhagen. To
date this building is the largest structural steel project completed in Denmark
at approximately 2,500 tonnes and presented some particular challenges to the
project team at CSK. The project took almost one year and was notable for both
the scale of the construction and logistics associated with the fabrication and
erection process.
With the steel detailing required for the project completed in the CSK office in
Aarhus, Denmark, the fabrication carried out in Latvia at CSK’s new production
site, project management based in Thisted and erection in Hillerød, the project
could have posed some logistical issues. With only one man responsible for the
detailing of the project and then approximately 32 revisions and 37 issues
during construction, how was this project completed on time and to budget by the
steelwork fabricator? The answer at least in part was the software used to model
and detail the project, which enabled one draughtsman to take responsibility for
modelling the project, instead of the five man detailing team originally
calculated by the main contractor. StruCad, the 3D detailing system developed by
UK based AceCad Software Ltd enabled the complex modelling of the steelwork
required and provided automatically generated material lists and fabrication
data for the production of all steelwork. An automated revision system handled
the drawing and report updates and the powerful software supplied accurate CAM
(Computer Aided Manufacturing) output data and enabled electronic transfer of
fabrication drawings to the CSK fabrication site in Latvia. Collaboration across
both the CSK project team and third party contractors and engineers was aided
during the entire construction period by the free drawing and model viewing
software associated with StruCad (view
and download the software) enabling details and revisions to be
checked and communicated easily. This functionality is of particular interest to
engineers and enables full scale interaction across teams facilitating
interrogation and understanding of the model. With project phasing also handled
by the StruCad system the steelwork was batched, trucked and shipped from Latvia
to Denmark and erected in sequence in Hillerød.
 CSK
Senior Draughtsman Jacob Willumsen started using StruCad software in 1999 and finds it
the most productive solution to overcome many complex structural detailing
issues and a powerful means of management of the many steel construction
projects completed by the company. ‘StruCad facilitated
the scale of this large project – enabling us to detail the structure incredibly
quickly and produce accurate fabrication drawings and output electronically’.
‘By adding our own personalised section catalogue to the StruCad library we were
able to further speed the detailing process and improve our productivity'.
Jacob continues, ‘This means we can handle larger projects
in shorter times with less man hours’. ‘Our production team in Latvia are also
able to accept CAM output data from the system in association with accurate
material lists and fabrication drawings and thus a seamless fabrication process
can occur’.
CSK have been involved in many landmark projects in Denmark, including the
recent Copenhagen Airport Transfer Centre and attribute some of their success in
the recent completion of the largest steel framed building in Denmark to the
power of StruCad from AceCad Software Ltd.
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Reproduced with kind permission from
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