184 SCIA User Contest 2007 • Category 4 • CAE Buildings CAE Buildings 4 VK Engineering Address Zevenbergenlaan 2a • 8200 Brugge (BE) Telephone +32 50 390553 Fax +32 51 262021 Contact Mr Geert Devolder Email [email protected] Website www.vkgroup.be VK Engineering is the new identity of Ingenieurs- en Architectenbureau Van Kerckhove (Roeselare, est. 1952), Studium (Bruges, est. 1963), Bureau d’Etudes Coget (Brussels, est. 1974) and Ingénieurs Associés (Brussels, est. 1977). Ingenieurs- en Architectenbureau Van Kerckhove, established by Hubert Van Kerckhove and managed by Peter Van Kerckhove since 1982, took over Studium in the same year and Coget in 2000. The expansion of the Van Kerckhove-group urged a more streamlined organization under the joint VK-label, regrouping the engineering services in 2002 in VK Engineering Building Services and Civil & Structural. Ingénieurs Associés reinforced VK in 2004. With its steady expansion, VK enlarges its action radius, with regard to expertise and knowhow, as well as geographically. With offices in Brussels, Merelbeke, Bruges and Roeselare, employing about 150 people, VK is one the largest engineering firms of Belgium. VK Engineering offers its knowhow and knowledge especially to the private market, more specifically offices, industrial, hospitality & leisure and the residential market. Through the years, it has put challenging and large-scale projects to its name. The new NATO-headquarters, the Mondrian business center, the Marriott-hotel (Ghent), the GlaxoSmithKline-complex (Waver), the new Antwerp Law Courts, the Charlemagne building (Brussels) and the Bruges Concert Building are but a few examples. VK Engineering consists of a team of multidisciplinary consulting engineers. The firm is subdivided into cells, each one guided by an expert project director, and undertakes studies in building services and civil & structural engineering of prominent projects. It engages into various missions, from the study of new buildings, to renovations of (protected) monuments, assessments and management developments. VK Engineering supports the architectural and industrial concept by its creative approach within a rational structure. In maintaining a smooth and coordinated cooperation in the various construction phases, the project is realized according to the concept of the designer and to the satisfaction of the client. As a well-established engineering firm, VK Engineering evidentally also closely follows the newest and future developments, such as CDF simulations, night cooling, natural ventilation, activation of the concrete nucleus, geothermal studies, co- and trigeneration, solar collectors, … As such, VK Engineering is capable of offering its clients an integrated study and performing end product. VK Engineering is equipped with an extended library, containing the most recent standards and technical data, and disposes of advanced soft- and hardware. City Hall Koksijde The project regards the new town hall of the city of Koksijde; the engineering studies were entrusted to VK Engineering. VK Engineering created a 3D-drawing model of the entire construction that served as a working base for the architect and a starting point for all further execution drawings. The entire construction was modelled in 3D-software, keeping all necessary degrees of freedom in mind. The building consists of 2 office wings, with an atrium in between of 25 by 25 metres, with a clear height of 20 metres. The office wings count 4 floors above ground level, which contains landscape offices. Slender steel constructions and the glazed atrium symbolize the transparency the town council wants to emanate. The building can be accessed by a footbridge on the ground level. In the atrium the central council chamber catches the eye, it is shaped like an elliptic structure, “floating” above the ground. City Hall Koksijde Used software • SCIA•ESA PT
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