It’s always exciting to find new approaches and broaden our engineering expertise – this time for the Pedagogen Park with combined glulam and steel load-bearing structures.
One of the most challenging tasks was to create connections for the steel load-bearing beams and wooden columns. For example, we used special screws and avoided welding as much as possible, which is quite unusual in heavy engineering. Also, the specific characteristics of wood had to be considered to minimize the risk of corrosion for the steel elements.
For the Pedagogen Park project, UPB provided the design and manufacturing of steel and concrete structures and the assembly of the structural elements, including wooden columns and other wooden parts. Some of the glulam columns have a height of more than 14 m – making the building look really amazing!
