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21 Category 1: Buildings 1 VLAS Police Station - Kortrijk, Belgium Abicon nv Contact Stijn Breye Address Marialoopsesteenweg 2H 8700 Tielt, Belgium Website www.abicon.be Abicon nv is an independent engineering company, our core business is constructions with concrete and steel. We work out a project from A to Z. Most projects are new buildings to be used as offices, residential buildings and homes but we do also a lot of industrial buildings. We also have the know-how to make precast designs for every building or construction, set ready for production. Owner THV Vlas Drie Hofsteden Architect Goedefroo-Goedefroo + Bureau D’hondt General Contractor THV Vlas Drie Hofsteden Engineering Office Bureau D’hondt - Abicon nv Construction Period 09/2016 - 07/2018 The building concerned is a new police station in the centre of Kortrijk Belgium. It consists of two large sections, an office, and a car park. The office is a three storey building, with the possibility to add a fourth storey. In the middle, there is an open space with a hanging staircase. The car park has two stories. We made a 3D model in SCIA Engineer including all of the columns and beams. We also used concrete plates for the calculation of the wind stability. Then we added the load panels to get all of the reactions and internal forces of the beams and columns. The deformations of the columns as a reaction to the wind were also obtained. In this project, the hanging staircase in the open space was a real challenge. Furthermore, the side elements in concrete were also a challenging problem as they are very long.