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89 Category 3: Industrial Buildings and Plants 3 Owner MVE Želiezovce, s.r.o. Architect Vodotika, a.s. General Contractor Metrostav, a.s. Engineering Office Vodotika, a.s. Construction Period 07/2014 - 08/2016 The hydraulic structure near the town of Želiezovce (Nitra region) is located by the river Hron. It was designed as a multi-purpose construction serving several functions (water management, energy, environmental). The construction consists of three main parts: • hydropower plant (installed power capacity – 2800 kW, 2 x Kaplan horizontal turbines, designed gross head – 5.95 m), • fish ladder (salmon leap with 72 fish chambers), • weir with overpour radial gate (three fields with a bridge). The load bearing structure of these parts is designed from massive reinforced concrete elements. SCIA Engineer has been used for creating the 3D analysis models of the hydropower plant and the weir. Internal forces and displacements were calculated using the finite element method and reinforcement for 2D elements was designed according to EC2. The loading capacity of the foundation soil and some chosen load bearing elements were calculated separately too. SCIA Engineer helped us understand the composite action between the massive elements especially in the hydropower plant, analyse the behaviour of the whole structure for each load case and combination and to calculate global displacements. Hydraulic Structure - Želiezovce, Slovakia VODOTIKA, a.s. Contact Miroslav Malast Ján Cigánek Address Bosákova 7 85104 Bratislava, Slovakia Website www.vodotika.sk Vodotika a.s. is a design engineering studio focusing on engineering design, consulting and supplier services in the field of civil engineering and land architecture, especially hydro and water construction. The main company activities are divided into two parts and cover all design stages (from concepts with defining its function to detailed documentation): • engineering design of civil constructions (small hydropower plants, protection dams, polders, flood protection), • architecture and design of building constructions (apartment blocks, multifunctional buildings, blocks of flats). The company is ISO 9001 certified.