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Category 3: Industrial Buildings and Plants
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New Mixing Installation - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Contact
Michel Garssen, René van Renswoude
Address Galileilaan 36
6716 BP Ede, The Netherlands
Website
Konstruktieburo Snetselaar BV is an international, independently-
operating consultancy for construction. Our activities include the
designing, engineering and drawing of architectural and civil constructions
of reinforced (prestressed) concrete, steel and wood. With our team of
over 20 engineers and draftsman, (registered) engineers and engineering
draftsman, we offer a complete engineering and drafting service for
building construction (full 3D BIM). Our agency is characterized by the
direct link it offers between the client and the engineer.
Owner
Struyk Verwo Infra
Architect
UBO Engineering BV
General Contractor
Nelissen van Gerwen BV
Engineering Office
Konstruktieburo Snetselaar BV
Construction Period 05/2014 - 12/2014
The structure we engineered is a concrete mixing installation inside a
building. The structure is designed to withstand the vertical load of the
bunkers on top of it. The bunkers weigh approximately 40 t each. This
weight puts an extra horizontal load on the structure.
For the design of the structure I used an
IFC model
drawn by one of our
draftsman. This simplified the modelling of the structure in SCIA Engineer.
When I had connected all the elements, I could start engineering the
structure, placing hinges and changing materials. The diagonal beams are
non-linear so they can’t take compression forces.
The challenge of this project was the complexity of the
lattice
frameworks
underneath the storage units. There are frameworks in
both directions with a lot of force on top of them. Another problem we
needed to tackle was the stability of the structure. Because of its relatively
small base the structure is sensitive to displacements. We solved this by
strengthening the connections between the columns and the beams.
Company
Konstruktieburo S etselaar BV
