Four months ago, the Luis Guillermo Aycardi building, postgraduate headquarters of the Colombian School of Engineering. Now, the building is the winner of the Construction Excellence Award given by the American Concrete Institute.
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The recognition is given for the innovation, complexity and achievements in the use of concrete as a construction material. The building is designed for a population of 1,290 people.
The work was co-financed by Findeter and bears the name of Dr. Luis Guillermo Aycardi, who put his heart into the structural design of this building, whose architecture was conceived by Stefano Anzellini Fajardowith the direction of the Rector of the School, engineer Alfonso Rodríguez Díaz.
One of the biggest challenges of the building was having been built in the first two years of the covid-19 pandemic.
The result was this construction of three floors, basement, terrace and outdoor areas that provide various services. The semi-basement has three auditoriums, an enclosure of silence and 56 parking spaces. The first two floors are intended for interactive classrooms that use the latest computer technology. On the third floor are the computer rooms and other classrooms.
In addition, its walkable terrace communicates with the postgraduate and research administrative offices and includes a modern meeting room.
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Supporting the degree of difficulty of the construction, the directors of the School assured: “It was necessary to innovate in the redesign of very careful sequential processes and to adapt construction techniques, given that the work was carried out during the covid-19 pandemic, coordinating small groups of workers in synchronized shifts.”. Likewise, they stressed that the building is “the hinge that articulates the heart of the campus: its curved geometry orients the visual and circulation axes.”
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