London Foster + Partners 2017

Bloomberg Building

Overview

The world’s most sustainable office building at completion, awarded BREEAM Outstanding with a record final-stage score of 99.1%. Foster + Partners’ design covers 3.2 acres of the City of London and delivers 102,200 m² of office and retail space, cutting water use by 73% and energy by 35% versus a typical office. Bronze fin façades filter light and noise, while a first-of-its-kind natural-ventilation system breathes the building through a petal-clad ceiling and a central atrium.

Scope

Automation of the entire production chain for the atrium steel structure — from 3D geometry generation through blueprint creation to CNC-ready files.

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Outcome

Thousands of complex workshop drawings, with auto-generated dimensions and descriptions, were produced at the click of a button and exported as PDF and DWG.

Capabilities Applied

  • End-to-end production automation
  • Auto-dimensioned workshop drawing generation
  • PDF / DWG export pipelines
  • CNC-ready file output