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104 Category 3: Industrial Buildings and Plants 3 Owner ArcelorMittal Gent Architect Jozef Coene General Contractor AMC, Ferris, Real Engineering Office MULTI Construction Period 07/2015 - 10/2015 Due to the revamping of the gas pipe system of the ArcelorMittal Ghent blast furnace, a new 2800 mm diameter gas pipe had to be installed on the site between the existing structures and installations. Therefore, 10 new towers were designed to support the pipe on the level of +20 m, supported partly by new foundations but also by existing structures that had to be reinforced. In order to define the geometry of the structures, a 2D layout drawing of the area was imported to SCIA Engineer. Furthermore, the complete SCIA Engineer model was combined with a 3D scan made on the site, which made it possible to find solutions very close to the existing structures without any clashes. For some towers, extra joints had to be installed to make the erection possible. To evaluate the effect of wind load, internal pressure and temperature on the pipe, the “towers + pipe” complex was modelled in SCIA Engineer. The calculation model was used to hand over the information to the suppliers for the initial request for price. Furthermore, it was used to provide all information for the detail calculations and for the workshop drawings. The possibilities in SCIA Engineer to exchange the 3D model with other software packages was a great advantage for this project. Blast Furnace Gas Pipe System - Ghent, Belgium MULTI N.V. Contact Rino Cerpentier Address Orlaylaan 10 9140 Temse, Belgium Website www.multi.engineering MULTI enables customers to be successful. That is the reason why we provide customised engineering services. That is also why we use skilled engineers and take care of their further development. We serve 3 sectors: Industry, Building & Infrastructure and Maritime & Offshore. MULTI offers expertise in 3 services: Projectsourcing, Design- and Engineering offices and Consultancy.