Recently, the US Engineering News Record (ENR) magazine announced the 2022 Global Best Project award and outstanding project award results, the main pavilion construction project of China Tianfu Agricultural Expo Park, which was built by the Ministry of Architecture, won the best project award in sports and entertainment category. This is the first time that the Group's timber structure project has won the ENR annual Engineering award.

The main pavilion of Tianfu Agricultural Expo Park is a milestone in the development of timber structure architecture in China. The project was designed by Cui Kai, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. North American StructureCraft Company provided the structural engineering scheme, and Beijing Urban Construction Group served as the general contractor to lead the construction of the project. The three teams worked together across national boundaries for one year to bring a world-class innovative design and engineering case to Chengdu, Sichuan Province.

The main exhibition hall of Tianfu Agricultural Expo Park has a total construction area of 130,000 square meters. In a field, there are five huge arch buildings, which are magnificent in momentum and primitive rough and plain. They are in harmony with the surrounding fields, meaning "Tankan harmony and rice waves rolling".

The five huge arched building vaults feature unique Vierendeel style trusses, the world's first steel-wood mixed fasting truss arch, the upper and lower chord bars are glulam wood, and the belly bars are triangular shaped steel structures. The whole roof is CNC machined wood purlin + ETFE membrane structure system, the maximum span is 118 meters, the highest point is 43 meters. The combination of the arch frame and the colorful ETFE membrane roof is stunning, becoming a milestone in wood and membrane architecture in the world.

In addition to the overall use of wood components, the project also incorporates the use of steel components. This combination ensures that the main structure is based on the wood structure, to maximize the performance advantages of steel and wood, forming a set of beautiful, reasonable, economic, environmental protection in one of the large span steel and wood combination structure. The 5 building volumes are all irregular shaped structures, which require high precision in material processing and on-site installation. The project team of Beijing Urban Construction Group successfully completed this world masterpiece by using digital and intelligent construction technology, and the related construction technology was recognized as reaching the international leading level. Since its completion one year ago, the main exhibition hall project of Tianfu Agricultural Expo Park has achieved excellent performance indicators, comprehensively enhancing the potential of Tianfu Agricultural Expo Park to contribute to the sustainable and healthy development of agriculture and cultural tourism in Sichuan Province. A "never-ending rural agriculture and tourism feast" has been staged in Chengdu.

ENR is the most authoritative academic journal in the field of global engineering construction, known as the "barometer" of the engineering field. The ENR Global Best and Outstanding Engineering Awards are designed to select projects with the most international elements and global influence from around the world. The selection criteria are extremely strict. In 2022, 34 projects from 18 countries and regions on 6 continents won the World's Best Project Award or Outstanding Project Award in airports, ports, roads, Bridges and tunnels. In addition to the main exhibition hall construction project of China Tianfu Agricultural Expo Park, the seaplane facility development project of Maldives Vilana International Airport implemented by the Group was also awarded the Excellent Project of airport and port. Editor/He Yuting