Fighting the flab in buildings
In the early 90’s Paul Cross, one of Arup’s clever men, built a spread-sheet tool for our Commerzbank Tower project in Frankfurt…..an “Optimiser”. He made sure that the 18,000 tonnes of steel in the tower were all working at more than 90% of capacity. In the modern idiom, he ensured there was less than 10% wastage. The financially savvy client immediately tried to buy the Optimiser for 1.5 million Deutschmarks. Today, Clement Thirion, one of our own bright young things, […]
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