Bowled over! Many of the wonderfully creative designs for the Pavilions of the Shanghai World Expo were built with the help of Tekla software

摘要

World Expos are fabulous places to visit, as they usually contain some really exciting buildings, often unconstrained by day-to-day practicality but designed to show off the style, wit and character of the countries that they represent. For all their esotericism, though, they generally present the structural engineers with some enormous headaches, as they strive to put the architect's dreams into practice. But there are benefits to be had as well, as the solutions test, and then drive, the expertise of the structural engineers and the software they use.