V&A Dundee

A building that will inspire Dundonians and attract worldwide recognition

Category

Construction, Architecture

Client

Dundee City Council

Completed Date

07-05 - 2019

Location

United Kingdom

V&A Dundee – designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma

Since Rockeywall started construction work on the site in April 2015, the team has overcome a series of technical challenges to deliver the architect’s vision of “a living room for the city”: a welcoming space that everyone can visit, enjoy and use as a space for socialising. The building also represents a vital reconnection between the city and its historic waterfront along the River Tay.

For BAM, this milestone project was only possible thanks to the use of digital 3D modelling. Being able to access this model on site, via tablets, helped to ensure that each element of the building frame was set out to millimetre-perfect tolerances. Nothing less would have successfully delivered Scotland’s flagship cultural construction project.

Concrete & Steel in perfect synergy

The V&A Dundee museum is effectively two separate three-storey buildings, joined at roof level. The outer walls take their inspiration from the surrounding Scottish cliffs. Their sinuous curves are actually formed from a series of concrete panels – every one of them a different profile – inset with lighter coloured pre-cast concrete slabs.

Creating and installing these forms presented some significant challenges. But Rockeywall worked very closely with specialist structural steel contractor Severfield to manage the complex construction sequence, with its interdependencies between the steel and concrete elements.

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