Project overview
The Emirates Pavilion was the airline’s pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai. Its signature is a row of tall steel fins that sweep up across the glazed front of the building, lit at night, which made it one of the most recognisable structures on the Expo site.
Wrenze Steel worked on the pavilion for Emirates Airline, with WME as consultant and Cimolai Rimond Middle East JV QA as the steel contractor.
Our scope
Our scope covered the steel structure take-off, quantity survey, cost estimation and review of the 3D model:
- Take-off and quantity survey: measuring the steel from the model and drawings, member by member, to give the tonnage and the quantities for every type of element.
- Cost estimation: turning those quantities into a cost for the steel package.
- Model review: checking the structural model for completeness and consistency before the numbers were relied on.
On a structure this complex, accurate quantities matter. Each fin is long, angled and different from its neighbour, so estimates based on simple rates per square metre would miss the real tonnage and the cost of the connections.
The structure
The fins are the pavilion’s main steel feature: tall, slender members leaning out at different angles, meeting the ground in a series of angled bases and tied back to the building behind. Elements like these are governed by wind and by their own weight acting at an angle, and their connections at the base and to the building carry most of the design effort.
This was part of our wider Expo 2020 work, which also covered the Slovakia, Brazil, Angola and USA pavilions and the Expo steel car parkings.
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