Ferrari Experience - Abu Dhabi, UAE

Period: 2008-2009

Architect: Benoy – London (UK)

Client: Aldar-Besix and Sixco (UAE)

Used materials: 45.000 meter of bended/profiled powdercoated purlins, 160.000 m² of steeldeck (partially perforated, supplied Europerfil - Spain), 160.000 m² of insulation, 235.000m² aluminium standing seam (Interfalz, Oranienburg – Germany) coated in a 4-layer PVDF (Euramax, Roermond – Netherlands).

The Ferrari Experience is the first indoor entertainment-park in the world, situated next to the new F1-track of Abu Dhabi. This building is part of a big development-project on Yas-Island (www.yasisland.ae ). ME Construct was rewarded with three contracts :

• Design & Engineering: together with client and architect, ME Construct designed, engineered and prepared the workshop drawings for the roof-composition.
• Fabrication and delivery: because of the fact that the local market was saturated and could not deliver in time, ME Construct fabricated and shipped approx. 1.200 tons of bended and coated steel purlins. Due to the local aggressive conditions (sea, salt and sand) the purlins needed a special treatment (hot-dip galvanization and two layers of powder-coating to obtain 170µ). This special treatment was developed with Scicon.
• Site-supervision and co-ordination: the management of this roof covering project was done by a ME-team on site, supported by the technical people of the head-office in Bree. The installation of the materials was executed by +/- 350 local people, provided by the general contractor. To ensure a good and safe execution, our team made a detailed method-statement.

Turnover: € 11.500.000

Methode statement roof (Download PDF)

Article Yas Island, Concierge 2010 (Download PDF)

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