AECOM led a multi-disciplinary engineering team for Diageo, to create one the largest malt whiskey distilleries in Elgin, Scotland, U.K.<\/p>\n
The award-winning US$60-million Roseisle distillery has been recognized across numerous industries and sets a new standard in building design and sustainable credentials.<\/p>\n
For the design, AECOM used structure-, architecture- and production-combined BIM to assist with the design of the facility.\u00a0 AECOM provided all non-process consultancy services for the award-winning distillery, which was recently recognized by the Institution of Civil Engineers and is certified as \u201cExcellent\u201d under the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM).<\/p>\n
\u201cThe challenge at Roseisle was to design a building that wrapped around the complex process equipment required to distill malt whisky while maintaining the high level of flexibility required for future maintenance and advancement of technology, ” said Steve Ferguson, associate director, building engineering, Europe. \u201cBy using BIM and integrating the 3D architectural, structural and complex-process equipment models, the team was able to coordinate and manage the build solution in a virtual environment prior to constructing onsite, and the result was a fully coordinated, efficient and collaborative process.\u201d<\/p>\n
As lead consultant, AECOM created a unique, flexible structure that allows the roof and walls to be removed when equipment needs replacing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ceiling has structural redundancy, for when the fermentation units need to be replaced,\u201d said Nathaniel Buckingham, a senior engineer for AECOM in Europe. \u201cThe client was concerned about the environmental impact of the replacement process, so we constructed a building that was able to reuse co-products from the distilling process to provide energy where, in the past, these residues would be removed and used as animal feed.\u201d<\/p>\n
AECOM\u2019s technical leadership continues to drive the Building Information Modeling solution across all of its businesses.\u00a0 The company\u2019s professionals have also utilized BIM in major projects around the world, including the design of England\u2019s Chester Zoo; the BBC Pacific Quay Headquarters in Glasgow, Scotland; and the MHMC Hospital in Sharja, United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n
The distillery is currently operational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3633,"template":"","tags":[],"city":[359],"class_list":["post-2915","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","city-elgin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/2915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/2915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2915"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}