Shaping south asia 2011 issue 02

ISSUE 02 SOUTH ASIA

Special Edition

on our specialist capabilities: Lighting, Facade, ESD, Integrated Design Management Create@NUS gets the Meinhardt Facade treatment Eigen: Our BIM Specialist Profile: Abigail Evans, Executive Transport Planner

THE MET, BANGKOK

REGIONAL CEO

SPECIALIST CAPABILITIES

PROFILE

GLOBAL PROJECTS

ISSUE 02

SOUTH ASIA

Regional CEO Message

WELCOME TO THE SPECIAL EDITION OF SHAPING SOUTH ASIA John Pollard Regional CEO, South Asia j o h n p @ m e i n h a rd t . n e t

I’m pleased to present this latest edition as we bring focus to our specialist teams who have played a key role in our global expansion. As our technical gurus, they provide value-added expertise to our core capabilities and have constantly demonstrated high-quality work in every project and every location.

In the following pages, you will read more about our involvement as a specialist for building envelopes, lighting designs and ESD solutions. They represent Meinhardt’s creativity, integrative approach and dedication to technology and green initiatives.

Globally, the Group is progressing well as we aim to grow our expertise and value chain. In this aspect, we have recently expanded our specialist capabilities to include Integrated Design Management, Transportation and Traffic Engineering.

Earlier this year, the Group made a strategic investment to build up its long-term capabilities in integrated design management. We acquired Eigen Technical Services, a medium-sized engineering company in India, which could offer inimitable support through Building Information Modeling as well as other design consulting services.

Our focus on hiring the best has also led to significant hires across the Group, including Abigail Evans who has joined us from a leading transport planning consultancy firm.

I hope you will find this edition informative and I look forward to getting your feedback.

Content CREATE@NUS SINGAPORE

EIGEN

FOUR SEASONS CHAM ISLAND RESORT VIETNAM

CAPITAL MARKET CENTRE THAILAND

NEWS

GLOBAL PROJECTS

INTEGRATED DESIGN MANAGEMENT

Delivering higher value through BIM Meinhardt’s acquisition of India-based Eigen Technical Services, which provides cutting-edge design solutions including Building Information Modeling (BIM), will further strengthen its technical leadership, says Rajesh Srivastava, Managing Director of Meinhardt India.

BIM is playing an increasing role in the design process and it’s no longer a case where we can opt out when architects are working on 3D models. The whole industry needs to embrace it because clients are expecting BIM to be a standard scope of service.

With our newly acquired subsidiary, we now have a team of technical experts who are always at hand to assist Meinhardt’s clients with better design insight through in-process visualization and analysis.

Eigen Technical Services Pvt. Ltd. was first established in India seven years ago by Laing O'Rourke, a UK-based engineering and construction group.

At the time of acquisition, Eigen counted an extensive track record and had built up its software capabilities in AutoCAD, 3ds Max, Revit and Navisworks, with the latter allowing for 4D planning.

London Aquatics Centre London, UK

We are currently utilizing 4D BIM for Logix Group, a major local developer. The project comprises 17 high-rise residential towers spread across 25 acres of land. For such large-scale and complex projects, using 4D modeling which links construction schedules to the 3D drawings will greatly improve the project delivery and coordination between sub-contractors.

Few engineering consultancies can boast of such technological platform and we intend to further reinforce our technical leadership through Eigen. Clients can continue to look to Meinhardt to drive their projects more efficiently and get a better return on investment.

Muscat International Airport Oman

As Meinhardt’s design centre, Eigen will support the Group’s offices and external consultants through BIM, design consulting and quantity surveying services.

For more information on Eigen, visit the website here.

Rajesh Srivastava

rajesh@meinhardtindia.com Managing Director, India

Aldar Headquarters Abu Dhabi, UAE

Eigen’s Extensive Track Record In Providing BIM Includes

Turning Gold into Platinum India has now joined the growing number of Meinhardt offices to design projects that have achieved the elite LEED Platinum rating certification from United States Green Building Council.

In 2010, Meinhardt was engaged by an international banking organization to provide due diligence, detailed MEP engineering and site supervision services for their proposed corporate data centre at Pune in the State of Maharashtra, India.

This was a 10,000-square metre space within an existing building that was to be fitted out with resilient IT infrastructure capable of integrating information across worldwide locations and providing centralized data repository in a secure environment.

The scope of work included: - Due diligence appraisal of the existing building and infrastructure; - Detailed design in accordance with the Client’s Global Engineering Guiding Principles; and - Site supervision of the construction and fit-out works.

“The client set out their aspirations to achieve a LEED Gold rating for the data centre in the project brief” said Meinhardt Project Director, Mandar Nadkarni. “Achieving this while meeting the client’s global engineering principles within an existing building was challenging, particularly for the HVAC and electrical systems.

Meinhardt was able to specify innovative technology and equipment for energy conservation measures that exceeded the Client’s guiding principles while remaining within the budget allocation for the fit-out.

The construction and commissioning of the project was completed in July 2011 and in late October, it was announced that the project had received USGBCs highest accolade, the LEED Platinum rating.

Coming just days before Diwali, the Hindu ‘festival of lights’ and one of the most important events for the year, this was an early gift to the project team in Meinhardt’s India office.

LIGHTING DESIGN

Luxury Perfected Charlie Tancharoen and his team take us behind the Four Seasons’ latest luxury resort in Vietnam, where Meinhardt undertook complete lighting design.

Conceptualized as a “One Island One Resort” retreat, the Four Seasons Cham Island will offer 96 exclusive villas and suites, each beholding magnificent views of the South China Sea. Nestled on a hilltop, the resort extends over 350,000 square metres and is architecturally designed to preserve the natural environment, including the use of local materials, in its construction.

In conjunction with the architect Pentago and interior designer RDM, Meinhardt conceived a total lighting design plan.

Charlie Tancharoen

From the arrival point, guests are greeted by a refined and sophisticated setting before they enter the privacy of the resort grounds. Throughout, comfortable levels of illumination and mood lights are added to enhance the guests’ journey.

Pilasinee Rattarangsi

To extend this intimacy, concealed lightings are used along the meandering pathways to create subtle silhouettes to the foliage and landscape.

charlie@meinhardt.net Executive Lighting Designer, Thailand

pilasinee@meinhardt.net Lighting Designer, Thailand

In line with the resort’s sustainability commitment, these lightings are eco-LED lights incorporated with controlled settings.

Nearby, gas torches and oil lamps are brought into play for a dramatic and primitive lighting effect along the beach and public areas.

Guests are finally welcomed to a meticulously appointed villa which comes complete with a day-bed pavilion and a plunge pool.

The rooms are delicately lit in soft warm glow.

Depending on what suits the mood, a master lighting control system allows the guests to choose from a selection of preset lighting scenes.

“As a brand, Four Seasons epitomizes luxury and exclusivity, and our idea is to have this strong identity shine through in the lighting concept” said Charlie, Executive Lighting Designer.

“By keeping the lights soft and intimate, we created a sensory experience for guests who are looking for that ultimate dream getaway,” he said.

In line with the resort’s sustainability commitment, these lightings are eco-LED lights incorporated with controlled settings.

LIGHTING DESIGN

Grande Centre Point Hotel And Residence Sukhumvit - Terminal 21 Bangkok, Thailand This brand new development has 498 hotel rooms and serviced apartments. Meinhardt was the interior lighting consultant for the lobby areas and amenities including the resident lounge and fitness centre.

An energy-efficient lighting plan was adopted through the use of narrow beams and low energy lights. Dominant details such as the motif walls and multi-angled corners are accentuated to create a vivid contrast and sparkle between light and material. Overall lighting concept serves to enrich the contemporary oriental theme that runs throughout the interiors.

Poungpak Chotmanee

poungpak@meinhardt.net Senior Lighting Designer, Thailand

Pilasinee Rattarangsi pilasinee@meinhardt.net Lighting Designer, Thailand

FAÇADE ENGINEERING

Singapore’s Latest Innovation Research Hub The S$300 million Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) is set to become a world-class research facility for biomedical and physical sciences.

The local research scene will soon be buzzing with big names. Top international universities like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) will be setting up their research centres at CREATE. As an innovation hub, CREATE is designed to lead in the green revolution. Meinhardt collaborated with the architects in the façade design that gets its distinctive look from the sunshades and blinds. To determine the optimal façade design, the team carried out extensive technical analysis including thermal modelling.

Carmen Ong, Façade Consultant, was part of the team. “The main façade is integrated with various shading systems,” she explained “we utilized sunshades coupled with light shelves and motorized internal blinds that are adjustable to maximise daylighting and reduce heat glare.”

Carmen Ong

cohh@meinhardt.com.sg Façade Consultant, Singapore

Read about designing sustainable façades here

“For the glass canopy across the podium, we selected laminated glass with ceramic frit pattern to reduce solar transmission and improve aesthetic appearance. The team also designed a 15-metre tall support structure for the verdant wall which provided further ambient cooling and green appeal to the campus” she added.

The result of these measures is an extremely efficient building façade with an Envelope Thermal Transfer Value (ETTV) of 37.6 W/m2, contributing an energy savings of 9 million kWh per year.

Solar panels embedded on the façade and the rooftop will harness 300kWp of solar power.

This exemplary green campus is scheduled to open by the end of 2011 and will house 1,000 researchers as part of the new University Town development.

CREATE@NUS Singapore

Client: National Research Foundation Architect: Perkins & Will and DP Architects Project Manager: JURONG International Contractor: Obayashi Faรงade and Lighting Consultants: Meinhardt

The result of these measures is an extremely efficient building faรงade with an Envelope Thermal Transfer Value (ETTV) of 37.6 W/m2, contributing an energy savings of 9 million kWh per year.

Thermal Modelling for CREATE@NUS DAYLIGHT ANALYSIS

OPTION 4 (with suspended ceiling) 0.4m senshade, 0.6m light shelf, suspended ceiling

Daylight levels measured at desk height- 800mm above finished floor level.

Blinds are considered to be fully open

THERMAL MODELLING

EFFECT OF THE SUNSHADE DEPTH Solar gain (long wave radiation) measurements Solar Gain Comparison Summer

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FAÇADE ENGINEERING

The MET

Bangkok, Thailand Meinhardt provided façade design review and independent checking for this award-winning residential / hotel tower designed by WOHA. At 228 metres, The MET stands out from the city’s dense layout with its unique paneling design.

Its bio-responsive building envelope circles round the staggered block arrangement which created ‘open spaces’ throughout the building. These apertures allow better light penetration and breezes to flow freely, keeping the apartments naturally ventilated all the time.

Lush greenery are also featured prominently on the vertical facades to insulate the apartments from the tropical heat and improve the air quality around the building.

Peter Bouras

peter@meinhardt.net Associate Director, Thailand Photographs courtesy of WOHA

FAร ADE ENGINEERING

Indira Gandhi International Airport Terminal 3 New Delhi, India The new terminal uses over 20 faรงade systems, measuring 150,000 square metres and 5.2 kilometres long. Meinhardt designed the massive airport terminal faรงade in under three months.

The faรงade has been engineered to minimize the environmental impact with glazing systems oriented northwards to maximize illumination and to improve the thermal performance of the building envelope.

The double-glazed, laminated glass and sunshades help to reduce radiated heat, allow maximum visible light to penetrate and offer a better acoustic environment.

Mahesh Arumugam mahesh@mfacade.in Director, India

Read more about designing effective airport faรงades here

ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

The Economics of Green Design Meinhardt’s work on the Capital Market Centre serves as a model for sustainable office projects. The 35-storey building will be unveiled in 2013.

Located in what is destined to become Bangkok’s new financial hub, the 154-metre tall Capital Market Centre will stand alongside the new Stock Exchange of Thailand headquarters, offering LEED Gold Certified Grade A office space.

A cross functional team from Meinhardt was commissioned to explore the possibilities for low carbon solutions. Commenting on the project, Matthew Silvester, Executive Engineering Coordinator said: “Two major challenges arose during the design phase: how can we achieve the target 20% energy improvement and how to minimize the radiated heat from the 3-metre full height windows.”

To resolve these challenges, the team adopted a whole building design approach.

Ms Sompatsorn Punyaratabandhu, Project Director at The Beaumont Partnership said: "The Capital Market Centre project exemplifies how an integrated collaborative approach that the LEED system encourages can deliver a building which is both sustainable and is of premium quality.”

Key sustainability features of the Capital Market Centre which offer tangible operational benefits for the client include: A heat recovery ventilation system that recovers energy from exhaust air Carbon dioxide sensors to regulate the intake of outside air A highly thermal-efficient façade A waste water treatment and recycling system, recycling all waste water for reuse in irrigation and toilet flushing systems.

Matthew Silvester

matthew@meinhardt.net Executive Engineering Coordinator, Thailand

Client: American International Assurance (AIA) Architect: American International Assurance (AIA) Project Manager: Cornerstone Management Company Quantity Surveyor: Davis Langdon & Seah Civil & Structural, MEP, Faรงade, Specialist Lighting and ESD Consultants: Meinhardt

LEED (CS 2009) WE:Water EA: Energy MR: Materials EQ: Indoors ID: Innovation PR: Regional

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The Capital Market Centre project exemplifies how an integrated collaborative approach that the LEED system encourages can deliver a building which is both sustainable and is of premium quality.

Ms Sompatsorn Punyaratabandhu Project Director at The Beaumont Partnership

ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

Bandar Seri Begawan Development Masterplan Brunei Darussalam Meinhardt provided infrastructure planning and engineering advice for the Bandar Seri Begawan (BSB) Masterplan. The area encompasses the Central Business District to 100 square kilometres beyond, covering 12 Mukims (wards).

As a sub-consultant to HOK International, Meinhardt undertook a comprehensive review of the existing infrastructure systems in the city and the review of data and proposals supplied by the Brunei Government.

The team submitted recommendations for the city’s future infrastructure planning which included sustainable urban drainage solutions, water and waste management processes, renewable energy sources for power generation, integration of public transport schemes and improvements to transportation linkages. The proposal provided a concise and sustainable roadmap that is to be aligned with BSB’s 25-year Masterplan.

Riddhi Karmacharya rk@meinhardt.com.sg Director, Singapore

Jan Kamer

jk@meinhardt.com.sg Technical Director, Environmental Engineering

GLOBAL NEWS

Profile: Abigail Evans

Executive Transport Planner “Effective transport solutions can influence people’s travel behaviour and patterns, maximize a development’s potential and even revitalize a city.”

Abigail Evans is an Executive Transport Planner and has recently joined Meinhardt’s team in Bangkok. She has over 10 years of international experience, having worked at leading transportation consultancies based in Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, India and the United Kingdom. Originally from the UK, Abigail has spent the last four years in Asia.

Abigail has particular expertise in traffic impact studies, design of transport facilities, multi-modal public transport schemes, as well as sustainable transport planning. She has been involved in the transport planning for regeneration projects for Bhendi Bazaar (South Mumbai, India), new town development in Ben Luc (Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam) and in Duqm (Oman).

As a team member of the Asian Development Bank and World Bank mission project in 2009, she has helped develop the recommendations for sustainable and low carbon transport initiatives for the Government of Vietnam.

Abigail shares how these project experiences have been invaluable, “It’s important we engage and educate clients in bringing change to a positive built environment. Effective transport solutions can influence people’s travel behaviour and patterns, and maximize a development’s potential or even revitalize a city.”

Her role at Meinhardt will also include providing strategic advice to the infrastructure and urban design teams on integrated development planning.

Abigail Evans

abigail@meinhardt.net Executive Transport Planner

Q. How does transport planning fit into Meinhardt's capabilities?

Previously, many of Meinhardt’s development related projects include the requirement for a traffic impact study or transport planning input and until now, Meinhardt has appointed sub-consultants to carry out this work. We now have the benefit of providing a more integrated and efficient service by offering transport planning to our clients. At the same time, we are also growing transport-led projects, such as planning for road and metro, which can indirectly provide our Civil, Structural, Infrastructure and Environment teams with more exposure.

Q. What type of clients should be looking into this service?

Private developers, architects, government authorities, the World Bank and other funding agencies.

Q. Where do you see transport planning taking off or heading?

There is a growing need for expert transport planning advice, particularly in Asia where travel demand and investment in infrastructure is rapidly increasing. I envisage that in the next couple of years there will be greater emphasis from Governments and local authorities to plan developments with more consideration for transport facilities and access by sustainable modes.

For Meinhardt, I feel there is huge potential to grow this aspect of the business in Asia, particularly Thailand, Vietnam and India. In the near-term, we intend to establish transport planning and engineering hubs in Bangkok and Singapore that will support projects in the region. This will be followed by our other key locations such as China, India and Vietnam where we will have local transport experts.

Our Transport Planning and Engineering Capabilities: Feasibility of transport projects Traffic management plans Traffic impact assessment Due diligence of development projects Traffic and transport review of development masterplans Traffic engineering design Sustainable travel planning

GLOBAL NEWS

Meinhardt presents enhanced digital architecture solutions at CTBUH World Conference 2011

Kermin Chok

kc@meinhardt.com.sg Technical Director, Group Design, Singapore

Kermin Chok, Technical Director from Meinhardt’s Civil and

William Howell, a Meinhardt Technical Director, spoke on the

Structural Group Design Division, spoke at the Council of Tall

same topic at the Complex-shaped Tall Building Integrated

Buildings and Urban Habitat’s World Conference held in Seoul

Design System (CTBID) Conference on October 13, illustrating

on 10 October 2011. He presented a paper titled “Leveraging

recent case studies in Meinhardt leveraging such tools to deliver

Digital Tools for Holistic Collaboration”.

accelerated workflows and collaborative engineering solutions.

In the paper, Kermin outlined an array of custom programs

“With these customized add-ons, Meinhardt looks forward to

and add-ons to digital tools that he has developed to support

improving design collaboration between architects and

accelerated architectural and free form design. These tools,

engineers,” said Kermin. “These tools can be applied to all

build upon off-the-shelf solutions to improve internal

sectors and we expect clients to ultimately benefit from a

efficiency, provide new means for design communication and

well-considered design and yield better returns from an

allow for more collaborative design solutions. As a result, the

accelerated workflow.”

design team benefits through accelerated design studies and

a lowering of communication hurdles. Downstream,

“CTBUH World Conference is a highly prestigious event, and we

developers benefit from cost-savings that result from an

are very honoured to have the opportunity to share our innovation

integrated design approach and custom structural

and technological advances with key industry players gathered

optimization strategies.

here,” he said.

William Howell

wh@meinhardt.com.sg Technical Director, Group Design, Singapore

EFFICIENCY

Leveraging Architectural Geometry

Rhino Structural Geometry

Custom Linkages to Structural Analysis

Structural Analysis Deflections

COMMUNICATION

Common Geometry Platform

Custom Analysis to Rhino Bi-Directional Link

COLLABORATION

Trajectory Explorations

The full paper is available here

Core Geometrics

Deflected Cores

GLOBAL PROJECTS

TaiKoo Hui Guangzhou China The construction of this world-class project features Meinhardt’s ability to provide the full range of MEP services on a massive scale. Its environmentally-friendly and sustainable design has achieved a LEED Gold rating (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) from the US Green Building Council.

TaiKoo Hui, a mixed use development by Swire Properties Limited, is located at the thriving heart of the Tianhe Central Business District of Guangzhou with total construction area of over 450,000 square metres.

The development, designed by Arquitectonica, consists of two Grade A office towers, the first Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Guangzhou and a 100,000 square metres retail mall. The mall was officially opened on 23 September 2011.

Chi-Kwong Wong

mceckw@meinhardt.com.hk Director - M&E, Hong Kong

GLOBAL PROJECTS

Tamar Development Hong Kong Meinhardt was appointed as the civil and structural consultant for the largest central government complex in Hong Kong. The Tamar Development project by Gammon-Hip Hing JV was completed in 2011.

Located near the Admiralty MTRC station, the 42,000-square metre development, designed by Rocco Design Ltd, houses the Legislative Council and the iconic 27-storey Central Government Complex.

Tamar Development is the first building project in Hong Kong to incorporate simultaneously seismic motion design as stipulated in PRC code and local current code of practice for the Structural integrity analysis and construction. A steel truss structure spanning over 60 metres, links up the east and the west wing tower of the Central Government Complex. The truss serves as the core element in enhancing the structural integrity between two towers, bringing the irregular architectural theme into reality. This mega-truss currently holds the record as the longest-span roof in Hong Kong.

Reuben Pui-kwan Chu

reubenchu@meinhardt.com.hk Executive Director - Hong Kong Managing Director - C&S, I&E

GLOBAL PROJECTS

Myer Melbourne has been recognised as the world’s best new department store During the 2011 Oracle World Retail Awards, the Myer’s flagship building on Bourke Street in Melbourne’s CBD was awarded the Store Design of the Year Award, a prestigious honour highly contested by retailers from around the world.

Previous winners have included Topshop New York, Niketown London and American Girl Place, Los Angeles.

By using a custom-designed unitised façade system, with steel-framed panels measuring three metres by 15 metres, large areas of the façade could be closed and sealed quickly to meet the challenging deadlines.

Read about this award-winning project here

Meinhardt was façade consultant to NH Architecture and provided façade engineering for both the external façade and the complex design and geometry of the internal voids balustrade glazing and support structure of the A$500 million redevelopment.

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Danang Doha Dubai Gurgaon Hanoi Ho Chi Minh City

Hong Kong Jakarta Karachi Kuala Lumpur Kuwait Lahore

London Manila Melbourne Muscat Noida Riyadh

Seoul Shanghai Shenzhen Singapore Sydney

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