UPSA: Vichy, France
Project description: In February 2010, BETMI, a Design Office specializing in reinforced concrete, won the 2009 French User Contest - Concrete CAD category - with their project ”Geriatric Psychiatric Pavilion” based in Vichy.
The project consists of the creation of 25 units including a basement and a first floor with patios and a partially vegetated flat roof that supports solar panels.
Project main challenges:
2 foundation levels: continuous footings + wall beams in the basement and isolated footings + stringers under the first floor
Many wall openings and basement slab
Cutting of the project into 3 zones
Many cuts required to understand the project
Advance Concrete solution:
Easier subdivision of the project using the Document mode
Usage of elevation and isometric cuts
Representation of openings on wall elevations
Impact of walls and columns of upper levels
Main benefits for the user:
Productivity gain: quick generation of cuts, elevations, isometric views and floor plans directly from the model.
Reliability: automatic display of the column and wall keys (status control) of the upper level and opening positions and dimensions in slabs and walls.
Mr. Patrice GUIOT – BETMI draftsman: “Advance Concrete generates drawings with integrated isometric views so that masons get a direct reading of volumes, which is refined using the cuts and plan views. For them, the isometric views are great. For example, they can get a lot of information on rolling shutters embedded with blind parts.
We could not return to 2D. Since we started working in 3D, generating openings, walls, beams, we feel that they are not just lines anymore.”
