Sunlight on the second basement level
What is supposedly a rare occurrence is the current reality on the construction site of our project, the new Clinic 2 building at the University Hospital of Basel. Civil engineering students from Trier University of Applied Sciences saw this for themselves last week. They toured the impressive large-scale site, expertly guided by the responsible structural engineers from LÜCHINGER MEYER PARTNER.
In an introductory presentation, Bruno Wicki and Melvin Quirling first set out the key project information and construction concepts. An extensive site tour followed. It began in the aforementioned sunny second basement level, where the students could inspect the fair-faced concrete core with its rounded corners and the load transfers made of high-strength reinforcement. Watching the lower layers of a slab section in real time was another highlight.
Passing by formwork and the shrinkage passage, the tour finally reached the two-storey technical rooms in the cooler basements, which offered many structural engineering details. Particular interest was shown in the built-in components and the installation opening. However, the location of the high-rise construction site amidst dense development and the purely digital workflow of the construction project managed using BIM-to-Field also fascinated the students and prompted many questions.
We would like to extend our sincere thanks to these up-and-coming engineers and their lecturers, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Yannick Broschart, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. M.Sc. Thomas Kreiter and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thorsten Hoos, for their interest! We hope the excursion has lastingly strengthened their aspiration to become civil engineers.
