Engineering & Design

Ircon Ltd. provides complex multidisciplinary engineering and design for projects requiring coordination between different technical disciplines. Its capabilities include industrial engineering and design, 3D design and Building Information Modelling (BIM), supporting the development and coordination of projects from the design stage through execution.

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One design team, every discipline

A building or an industrial plant is designed by many specialists at once: structural engineers and architects, process and mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, and the designers of water supply, drainage, roads, fire safety and health and safety. Each discipline produces its own drawings, but on site they must become one coherent whole. Multidisciplinary design is the work of making them agree before construction begins, so that the structure leaves room for the equipment, the services run where they are meant to, and every requirement is met in a single, consistent set of documents.

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Lead designer across all disciplines

On many of its projects Ircon Ltd. has carried responsibility for the design as a whole. For the Inter Expo Center in Sofia, an exhibition and congress complex developed in several stages, the company was lead designer across all engineering disciplines. For Arena Sofia, one of the largest sports venues in Bulgaria with 12,000 seats, it served as the engineering bureau and developed every engineering discipline the complex required. At the Baumit plant in Elin Pelin, the scope ran from process and mechanical engineering through civil and structural design, architecture and electrical systems to water supply, roads, fire safety and health and safety.

Projects

Inter Expo Center, Sofia

Arena Sofia

Dry Mortar Plant, Baumit Elin Pelin

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Solutions that change what is possible

Good design does more than meet a brief. For the administrative building of the Inter Expo Center, Ircon Ltd.'s design made it possible to build five floors where four had been planned, a solution the press summed up in the headline “How 4 might be equal to 5”. At Business Center Entra, a ten-storey office building, the foundations were designed to bridge the underground collector of the Perlovska River.

Projects

Allianz Penthouse in IEC Sofia

Business Center Entra

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From the design stage through execution

Design work does not end when the drawings are issued. Questions from the site, changes requested by the client and the details of suppliers' products all have to be resolved within the design, so that what is built matches what was approved. With 3D design and BIM, the disciplines are coordinated in one model, and conflicts are found on screen rather than on site.

The same approach serves projects abroad. For power plants in Benin and Mali, Ircon Ltd. designed its part of the works to the Eurocodes in a BIM and PDMS environment, within international design teams led by BWSC.

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