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Category 3: Industrial Buildings and Plants
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Contact
Herman Meeuws
Address Industrieweg 4
2320 Hoogstraten, Belgium
Email
Bolckmans is an established player in its field, with experience across
various sectors and with different types of industrial buildings, such as
showrooms, offices, production halls and warehouses. As a modern
contractor we’re not merely a performer, but a one-stop-shop for our
customers. We have a great way of thinking in terms of solutions,
delivering projects within budget and on time, relying on a solid
construction team with 850 years of building experience and we are proud
to mention that 65% of our order income is generated by existing clients.
Owner
Alcom nv
Architect
Frank Joosen
General Contractor
Bolckmans nv
Engineering Office
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Construction Period 08/2014 - 07/2015
The project consists of a production hall measuring 246 x 78 m, an office
building and a building for technical equipment and a sprinkler tank.
The steel construction of the production hall consists of symmetrical portal
frames with 2 trusses supported by a row of trusses and columns in the
middle of the span and columns at the facades. All columns have hinged
connections with the foundations. The height under the trusses is 8 m and
the total height of the building is 10 m, so the trusses of portal frames are
slender. The maximal length of the trusses in the middle is 18 m.
Because of the large length of the building an expansion joint in the
middle of the length allows the structure to expand in case of thermal
working, so that stress is limited.
The structure has a fire resistance of 30 minutes. In order to obtain the
necessary and thus most economical thickness of protection paint (for
steel columns and trusses) the critical temperature per profile and per
item is calculated in SCIA Engineer. Therefore a non-linear calculation
is carried out (because of tension bars in bracing systems) and load
combinations for fire situation are used. The fire resistance is checked in
temperature domain and as result the critical temperature is given.
Bolckmans nv
Fire Resistance of a Production Hall - Beerse, Belgium
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