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ACV Office Building - Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
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Owner
ACV Sint-Niklaas
Architect
Architectenbureau Daens-Demuynck BVBA
General Contractor
Dugardein-De Sutter
Engineering Office
Ingenieursbureau G. Derveaux nv
Construction Period 11/2012 - 03/2013
An additional office building was built for ACV at Sint-Niklaas. It is a
J-shaped steel structure on six concrete columns, allowing traffic beneath
the building. The building has two storeys and a roof. Between the 11 steel
frames (spanning 12.6 m), a wooden frame structure is used for floors and
facades. Not all the steel frames are supported on columns, so laterally
the columns are part of a lattice structure with rhs-diagonals.
The building is connected to a new concrete/masonry building and an
existing building by a small corridor.
SCIA Engineer was very helpful when designing the steel connections and
calculating the deflection under permanent loads because it allowed for
the level of the connection to the existing building to be foreseen, meaning
that only the live loads are resting on the existing building.
The complexity of the structure was a challenge. As everything is
connected and interacting, changing or optimising one part would have an
effect on other parts.
Ingenieursbureau G. Derveaux nv
Contact
Paul Van Driessche
Address Brabantdam 33E
9000 Ghent, Belgium
Website
Ingenieursbureau G. Derveaux nv (ID) was founded in 1958 by engineer
Godfried Derveaux and became one of the most important independent
engineering offices in Belgium. Today the office is directed by his son,
Jan Derveaux.
ID is experienced in structural designs for all kinds of construction and in
the design (both architectural and structural) of industrial projects.
