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Engen Laudium
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- Published: 19 October 2020
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This project has a long history in the office. The Mobil Garage was originally built in the early 1970's and was then purchased by the Kharbai Brothers (Solly & Ahmed).
In 1997, with the structures some 27 years old, showing signs of ageing, we looked at options for an upgrade. The option settled for was an upgrade to the convenience store. This was only meant to extend the life by a few years.
1997 Interim interior alteration to enlarge convenience store.
In the meantime, plans were underway to look at a long term upgrade as maintenance of the ageing building was high, with very little to show for. With the structures quickly approaching a 50 year milestone, and the petrol station industry having transformed radical from the motor showroom to the slick convenience stores, the only option was to do a complete re-build.
In 2019, after a long on-off period the project to rebuild finally commenced
2019 - Prior to commencing full rebuild
2020 - Rebuild completed
The redesign creates a spacious 8 car fueling bays with a convenience store located at the same level as the petrol forecourt. The structures is a simple clean lined face brick building set back against the site boundary, clearly indicating the convenience to the customer.
CAD-BIM-Legacy: Ensuring Continuity in Drawings
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With the long term relationship we like to develop with our clients, most of our projects go through various phases over the years.
It's therefore important to ensure that we are able to take all the CAD drawings from the past into the latest CAD/BIM software of today.
The following image is a brief summary of being able to call up a a drawing done more than 18 years ago and with a couple of tweaks bring it into the latest software and all the benefits that come with it.
For this project, in 2002 the site mesh and textures were limited due to software and hardware limitations. In 2020, the software and hardware has evolved such that in less than 3 hours, we were able to insert an accurate terrain map as well as better looking material textures. Both of the above image are still the raw unrendered image.
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