{"id":54339,"date":"2019-03-21T10:07:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T10:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=54339"},"modified":"2019-05-03T10:14:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T09:14:29","slug":"cocoon-lightweight-steel-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/bim-news\/cocoon-lightweight-steel-building\/54339\/","title":{"rendered":"Case study: Cocoon\u2019s lightweight steel building system"},"content":{"rendered":"

With over 20 years\u2019 experience with lightweight steel construction, The\u00a0Cocoon<\/a>\u00a0team, based in Switzerland, provide a high standard of LGS design into modern commercial and residential buildings<\/h2>\n

The Cocoon lightweight steel building system is a great option for new constructions, adding floors or building extensions. Besides the packaging of the buildings sets and semi-finished products, Cocoon\u2019s planners and engineers also create feasibility studies, statistics\u00a0for projects as well as execution and assembly plans \u2013 supporting projects from inception to realisation.<\/p>\n

Cocoon\u2019s steel frame<\/a> engineering provides the capability to insert their style of design into a variety of different building projects.<\/p>\n

\"steel<\/p>\n

For example, the \u00d6AMTC Headquarters in Austria\u00a0demonstrates Cocoon\u2019s lightweight steel\u00a0profiles being implemented to the building\u2019s structural core of the wall in order to withstand the building\u2019s widespread spherical shape.<\/p>\n

Implementation of the software<\/h3>\n

Specialising\u00a0in several different styles of construction ranging from large one-off manufacturing to modular-designed units, the Cocoon team has just begun to implement\u00a0MWF<\/a>\u00a0Pro Metal\u00a0to help achieve challenging detail work and a more fluent style of architectural design.<\/p>\n

One of the major reasons Cocoon started using MWF was because of the quick manner framing elements are applied to a Revit model. When speaking to one Cocoon’s engineers, David Marity,\u00a0MWF was described as \u201cfast, efficient and of a high standard\u201d shifting focus from tedious framing tasks that other software provided.\u00a0Eager to test the functionality of the software and\u00a0to see what extent MWF can be utilised, our team jumped in and began training.<\/p>\n

MWF training\u00a0highlights:\"steel<\/p>\n