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Category 1: Buildings
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Owner
Hülster Immobilien GmbH & Co. KG
Architect
Architekturbüro Achim Becker
General Contractor
Fritz Meyer GmbH
Engineering Office
Ingenieurbüro Mentges
Construction Period 06/2013 - 06/2014
3D structural design of a residential and office building with 57 housing
units and 1500 m² of commercial space in the city centre of Siegburg.
For this new building, IB Mentges optimally used 3D software tools from
the Nemetschek Group. In this important regional project, the private
contractor succeeded with providing 57 housing units of affordable
housing for older people and a full-range food supplier in this downtown
location. The challenge for IB Mentges lied in checking the earthquake
loads. A simplified verification was not possible due to the geometry of
the structure and stiffened elements in the ground plane. The 4 floors
of the residential area were split to 4 sections on the ground plane and
reconnected using a continuous structural slab. The foundation was
planned outside of IB Mentges. IB Mentges transferred the 2D data
from architects into a 3D data in Allplan where the structure was easily
modelled. This 3D model was then transferred to SCIA Engineer through
IFC and the analysis model was generated. The earthquake verification
was performed in SCIA Engineer according to EC8. The checks of the
floor and other supporting members under live loads were verified with the
Frilo software. The reinforcement was designed in 3D, which is a common
practice at IB Mentges. As a result, not only optimized planning results
were obtained, but a poster made of the image of the reinforcement
scheme decorated the client’s office.
New Residential and Commercial Building - Siegburg, Germany
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Ingenieurbüro Mentges
Contact
Oliver Mentges
Address Aulgasse 176
53721 Siegburg, Germany
Website
For 20 years the engineering company Mentges designs structures and
buildings in concrete, steel or timber for industrial, commercial, residential
and administrative purposes. The customer base today is crossing regional
borders with nationwide projects. Mr. Mentges set BIM approaches in
his thesis already in 1989 and therefore relies on the technology leader
Nemetschek Group. Structural analysis and detailing with SCIA Engineer
and Allplan is a real BIM. The consistent 3D design is not a goal in itself,
but for the 3 engineers involved it represents a way to produce an optimal
design with a minimised possibility of errors.
