Steel Construction Award 2019: Zeman Group receives special prize for engineering skills

Large spans had to be overcome during the conversion of the Schierker Feuerstein Arena in the German town of Wernigerode.

The jury justified the special prize for engineering performance as follows: “The project demonstrates the art of steel construction engineering at an international level. Only a few companies can calculate such a solution of a three-dimensionally twisted steel box girder on two supports with a cable-tensioned net structure as the actual roof, and even fewer steel construction companies can manufacture and assemble it. The choice of the form-defining double-curved construction enables a low material input with high static efficiency at the same time.” The prize was accepted by Dipl.-Ing. Markus Zebinger.

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