Losinger Marazzi wins BIM D'Or
The new construction project Spital Limmattal in Schlieren near Zurich, which is being developed and realized by Losinger Marazzi AG together with BFB Architekten from Zurich and Brunet Saunier Architecture from Paris, has been awarded the BIM D'Or 2015 in Paris in the international projects category.
The awards ceremony will honor the best use of building information modeling (BIM) and digital modeling. The event was organized by "Le Moniteur", a weekly French reference journal in the field of construction, and the magazine "Cahiers techniques du bâtiment".
The Limmattal Hospital is one of the first large construction projects in Switzerland to be realized using BIM technology. It is a CHF 215 million project for 200 beds with a floor area of 48,500 sqm. It also includes eight operating rooms and procedure rooms, as well as twelve IPS/IMC and day hospital beds each. In total, treatment facilities will be created for around 10,000 inpatients and 60,000 outpatients per year. The symbolic groundbreaking ceremony took place in September 2014, and the hospital plans to move into the new premises by the end of 2018.
Losinger Marazzi AG is heavily involved in the development of BIM in Switzerland and since 2012 - as one of the first members - has participated in buildingSMART Switzerland, a joint platform of the construction industry.
With building data modeling BIM, all parties involved in planning and execution have access to the same, always up-to-date data without redundancies. BIM also enables the project to be represented in additional dimensions (thermal, seismological, sustainable project planning, etc.) and the planning of the construction site organization in terms of building materials, materials and personnel deployment. (ah)
