Amann Architektur, founded in 2023 by Dipl. Ing. Andreas Amann, MSc. (Architect SIA & LIA), works out of Schaan in Liechtenstein on building projects that carry responsibility towards the site, the client and future generations. From the first concept to the handover, the firm guides its clients through all service phases, and Merlin Project is the tool that ties together schedules, sequences and dependencies.
For about three years now, Andreas Amann has been guiding the new build of a Swiss hospital. A project that is typical for the industry in its complexity, and at the same time special: hospital operations must continue while construction is under way.
„The project is a new hospital build in several stages, while the existing facility stays in operation."
In a project this size, the temptation is to split data across many partial files. Andreas Amann goes the opposite way, and benefits from it every day:
„I do everything in the same file and everything is somehow linked to everything else. The advantage of this way of working is that I see every impact straight away."
Scaling is part of the plan, too. What is already a heavily interlinked model today will become significantly denser by the commissioning phase:
„At the moment I'm at 1,500 tasks. In the long run there will be at least twice as many."
„I use Merlin almost daily, over a period of about 3 years. I value the program highly." Dipl. Ing. Andreas Amann, MSc., Amann Architektur, Schaan
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