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55 Category 1: Buildings 1 Technocon bvba Contact Peter Van Nevel Address Groendreef, 91 9880 Aalter, Belgium Website www.technocon.be Technocon BVBA, founded in 1994, is an engineering office specialized in the engineering and in the design-to-construction process of steel structures and concrete structures of industrial projects. With the highly qualified Technocon team and with the best quality software programs like SCIA Engineer, Tekla Structures, and others, we ensure that we can calculate and draw the steel and concrete constructions according to today’s required international standardisation! Owner Barco Architect Jaspers Eyers General Contractor Cordeel NV Engineering Office Technocon bvba Construction Period 2014 - 2016 The engineering office Techcocon was responsible for the complete structural design, the calculation and detailed engineering of the steel construction part of this project. This includes the façade, the roof structure as well as the mezzanine. Considering the building, this was a significant challenge. The architectural design stands or falls with the remarkable bent steel shapes. The clever diamond meshes are the connectors within the impressive complex. “Of course, the form was the main challenge. The inclined columns below the mezzanine and the bent diamond structure within which the glass is connected, asked for special attention for the structural stability ...” explains Peter Van Nevel, chief engineer and project manager for the Barco-offices within Technocon. The design of the steel construction, the stability calculations and the execution reports – including the 3D drawings for the main contractor – had to take into account all the necessary requirements, among others the fluctuations in temperature and the rigidity. “The choice of the profiles from the diamond mesh completely depends on their weldability. This resulted in the choice for hot-rolled normalized hollow sections …” according to welding engineer Van Nevel. The Barco headquarter is a beautiful reference project for Technocon. “The positive cooperation between the builder, the architect, the contractor and Technocon resulted in this eye-catching steel construction.” Barco One Campus - Kortrijk, Belgium