Tomasz Stęplowski of the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland is the winner of the Global BIM Award in the student category for his design of a funicular-shaped structure of a reinforced concrete hall with the arched girder of the main nave. Tomasz's thesis aimed to find an effective shape for the main part of the structure based on the methods of graphic statics. To test scientist and architect Robert Hooke's observation from 1675: 'as hangs the flexible line, so but inverted will stand the rigid arch,' he designed not only the arch girder but also other elements of the hall, such as columns, beams, slabs and footings in Tekla Structures.

API Development Projects Category: Component Code Generator, U.S.A.

In the API Development Projects category, Keyack Technology Solutions won the award for their Component Code Generator, a Tekla Open API-based tool that shortens the time required for programming for coding, building system configurators and setting key variables by over 20% to 30%. Typically, developers spend a lot of time manually finding and mapping variables as well as understanding how to properly set the component input on existing components to put them in the model. The Component Code Generator can read selected existing custom, system, or API-plugin components from the Tekla Structures model to automatically generate a C# method to insert that component.

Public Choice Winner: Preservation Plaza Canopy, U.S.A.

Of all the 155 entries, the most votes from the general public went to the Preservation Plaza Canopy by Structures Online.

Tekla Global BIM Awards
Overall, 155 projects from 35 countries (which included winners of the 2023 and 2024 regional Tekla BIM Awards competitions) were entered into the global competition. The winners of the Tekla Global BIM Awards were decided by an international expert jury consisting of Andrew Livingstone, research associate at the Center for Offsite Construction and Innovative Structures at Edinburgh Napier University, Rob Roef, senior business developer digital built environment at the Dutch organization for applied scientific research, TNO, co-chair Building Room, BuildingSMART International and chair of buildingSMART Benelux, Aviad Almagor, vice president of technology and innovation Trimble, and Artur Tomczak, bSDD Product Manager for buildingSMART International and PHD Researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU.

"Since its inception in 1999, the Tekla Global BIM Awards have shown us the best of the best in BIM and structural engineering," said Jari Heino, vice president and general manager, BIM & engineering division at Trimble. "Moreover, the entered projects have shown how broad the field of application is for our Tekla Structures software and other Trimble technologies. The projects share richness in quality, detail, functionality and sustainability. The Student category proves again that a new generation is talented in applying BIM technology and driving future success in the structural engineering trade."

More information about the Tekla Global BIM Awards, submissions, jury and winners is available at: www.tekla.com/bim-awards

High resolution images of winners are available here.
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