Case Studies

The centre piece of the 15th Asian Games was the Aspire Tower, shaped to represent a colossal torch, which for the duration of the Games held its symbolic flame within the lattice shell that forms the topmost section.

The Songdo Block D24 development, also known as Central Park III, is a group of residential towers.

At 3,560ft (1,085m) the café and visitor centre at the summit of Mount Snowdon in North Wales is the highest building in the UK south of the Scottish highlands.

Arup engineered this Jean-Francois Koenig designed office building using GSA to model the structure.

This new stadium will allow soccer and rugby fans to get close to the action like never before.

GSA was central to the analysis and design of this award winning building for both the innovative central roof and the surrounding conventional buildings.

This Arup Associates bridge was shortlisted from 109 entries in the RIBA competition for an iconic footbridge over the Sheffield Parkway.

How do you design a flexible bamboo bridge? With a flexible analysis program of course!

Building a bridge over a busy road is not easy, but when that road is carrying 747s at a major airport you need to plan the whole construction sequence very carefully.

With a main span of 120m, secondary span of 60m, and arch height of 40m, the award winning Infinity Bridge is one of the largest footbridges in the UK.

A 230 metre long pedestrian bridge designed to create an organic link between the landscape, bridge and user

A competition winning 55m foot and cycle bridge across the old docks at the Temple Quay 2 development in Bristol.

When Gifford have a reinforcement detailing problem, they turn to CADrebar for the answer.

The Stratford City project, of which Bridge 20 is a part, will create a major new mixed-use urban centre in East London on the site of a former railway goods yard at Stratford.

This case study presents the process of retaining wall and pile design adjacent to the Rayne Institute piles.

The following case study discusses a second rail border crossing between Hong Kong SAR and Mainland China that has been constructed.

An innovative method of using raked buttress piles to support a 3-storey basement excavation has been successfully used for a large multi-storey retail development.

This case study focuses on the design, construction and monitoring of contiguous pile retaining walls by Van Elle.

The widening and upgrade of 7.2km of the A470 Road, which runs along the Lledr Valley between North and South Wales.

Raison Foster Associates were asked by the contractor to investigate the stresses within the tunnel section base slab for a cut and cover tunnel.

The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008 was designed by Frank Gehry and Arup. It was erected in Hyde Park and was open to the public during the summer months of 2008.

The Copenhagen Metro Circle Line consists of a 15.5km metro line with 17 underground stations. The settlement analysis was undertaken using Xdisp.

This new terminal at JFK International Airport in New York is a model of passenger comfort and efficiency, thanks to use of MassMotion.

To increase the existing facilities of the well-known winter resort of Klingenthal, Vogtland District Council decided to build a modern ski jumping facility to meet the requirements of the International Ski Association (FIS).

The Maari oil fields are located some 100 kilometres off the west coast of New Zealand' North Island in the Taranaki basin. GSA was used to model the plated base, deck structures and model of the well head platform jacket structure

The Mamu Rainforest Canopy Walkway is a unique tourist facility set on the edge of the Wooroonooran National Park in Queensland, Australia

Optimizing the design of a 5000 element structure using the COM interface between GSA and Excel.

The 'Water Cube' is deservedly one of the centre pieces of the Beijing Olympics 2008. GSA was key to the form-finding and analysis of the ETFE cladding as well as involvement in the initial frame design.

Another award winning building designed using GSA.

Design and optimisation tool for freeform high-rise with truss façade structures

Dalton Park is an outlet shopping centre that features a variety of fabric membrane canopies analysed by GSA

Static analysis? I think not! With 10 sculptures weighing up to seven tonnes moving along a river bridge, GSA provided a state-of-the-art solution.

The design for a new Transbay Terminal in San Francisco needed to demonstrate effectiveness in key areas of pedestrian activity.

The use of MassMotion on the redevelopment of Union Station.

Overlooking the Pentagon and adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery in Washington DC, the Air Force Memorial evokes the spirit of flight as its three glimmering stainless steel spires appear to soar to the heavens.

See how Mail Manager saved 60% storage space for a small business.

Using Mail Manager the struggle to find project related email is now a thing of the past for Arup.

The use of Mail Manager in Arris Contracting Company Inc. (ACCI).

The use of Mail Manager in Axis.

275 hours of saved time per week for project printing, file coding and hard copy filing by the 180 participants in the intial trial of Mail Manager.

The use of Mail Manager in Morgan Carey Architects

The use of Mail Manager in Playle & Partners LLP.

The use of Mail Manager in Stace LLP

The use of Mail Manager in VHB

Mail Manager has allowed Musolino and Dessel to shed five hours per person per week associated with manually filing emails.

Terra Engineering Inc. and Merrill Creek Reservoir utilise Mail Manager for all email correspondence.

Mail Manager usage at John McCall Architects, Liverpool.

Angwin is located in the Napa Valley in California, USA. The vision behind the development of Angwin Eco Village is to create a community with strong commitment to sustainability, social equity and environmental preservation.

The site tested by ASPIRE is a ‘greenfield’ site, located north of Bristol, in the UK. The proposed development is predominantly an office scheme, which is surrounded by small, mature, semi-rural existing communities.

The proposed Gautrain Rapid Rail Link entails the construction of a modern, state-of-the-art rail network consisting of two spines.

Tsunami Reconstruction Housing Project, Sri Lanka

The Chyanyana irrigation project serves as a joint venture between a commercial farming enterprise and small-scale farmers in the Kafue district of Zambia.

Arup has worked in partnership with the Sabre Charitable Trust and Davis Langdon LLP to develop and build an exemplary prototype kindergarten building for the Dwabor community.