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Category 1: Buildings
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Contact
Gert Cocquyt, Frederique Noë,
Henk Vanwalleghem
Address Axxes Business Park,
Guldensporenpark Building A, n°4
9820 Merelbeke, Belgium
Website
VK Architects & Engineers offers its services in healthcare, buildings,
industry and public space. Our multi-disciplinary engineering building
services and civil & structural engineering have a proven track record
with renowned architects. VK’s portfolio features many challenging and
large-scale projects, new constructions, as well as renovations, expert
assessments and management. The new NATO headquarters, the Antwerp
law courts and the Ghent Ghelamco Arena are but a few examples.
Owner
THV Vastgoedruimte Noord nv-Immobel nv
Architect
Jaspers-Eyers Architects
Project Developer
Immobel
Engineering Office
VK Engineering nv
Construction Period 04/2015 - 12/2016
The TBR Brussels Tower is
87 m high
and contains 80,000 m
2
of office
space. The structure consists of a wide existing building and a plinth. The
project involves the building of a
new tower (measuring 25 m by 25 m)
on the foundation slab of the former plinth
. A steel bridge will connect
the two towers.
In this project, SCIA Engineer has been used for several analyzes:
the
global stability
, the deformation of the tower, a check of the
wind
comfort
, a
second order check
, the analysis of the forces in the
existing foundation slab
, the
differential settlement
caused by the new
tower, the
determination of the reinforcement
, etc.
To estimate the horizontal deformations, taking
cracked lintel shear
beams
into account, sub regions with reduced stiffness were used. To
determine the internal forces and the reinforcement in the lintel shear
beams,
integration strips
were used.
The interoperability of SCIA Engineer has been used intensively:
• The import and export tools of SCIA Engineer were used to optimise
the sections of the columns with a spreadsheet developed by VK
Engineering.
• The
R2S-link
is used to produce formwork drawings directly from the
calculation model.
TBR Brussels Tower - Brussels, Belgium
SE
VK Engineering
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