74 SCIA User Contest 2007 • Category 3 • CAE Civil Works CAE Civil Works 3 Victor Buyck Steel Construction Address Pokmoere 4 • 9900 Eeklo (BE) Telephone +32 9-376-22-11 Fax +32 9-376-22-01 Contact Mr Bruno Dursin Email [email protected] Website www.groupbuyck.com With a production capacity of 35.000 tons a year, Victor Buyck Steel Construction has been going strong since 1927 and has developed into an international group, with 4 production facilities in Belgium and Malaysia, and a sales branch in the UK. The company currently has production sites in Eeklo, Wondelgem (BUMAR), Hamont-Achel (CSM) and Kuala Lumpur (VB Malaysia). Our company employs 520 people and offers a turnkey solution to its customers, from engineering and fabrication, to anti-corrosion treatment, transport and erection. The company has extensive experience of major steel construction projects worldwide and continues to expand its activities and invest in the most modern computer controlled fabrication equipment. The company is proud to display the ISO 9001 Quality Certificate and the VCA** Safety Certificate. Our success has always been based upon a policy of international growth. Yet we have never lost sight of our roots and we retain a respect for family values. The company has a policy of continuous investment in people, training and production technology. We specialize in two main areas: whilst on the one hand we focus on civil engineering, which is predominantly within the public domain, including transport and infrastructural projects like barriers, locks, bridges or viaducts; we also concentrate on the private domain, which incorporates tall office buildings, sports and leisure infrastructure as well as heavy industrial construction work. Our service goes from design through to the erection of the building. All this can only be achieved because we have experienced and qualified people helping the customer at every stage of the construction process. Building in steel requires more technical knowledge than building in concrete and as a result we like to get involved in project nearer their conception, so that we can assist in finding the best technical and economically viable solution. VBSC has been involved in a number of significant projects such as the Swiss-Re building in London (12.000 T), several high-rise building at Canary Wharf, the lift bridge at Rouen (FR – 3.500 T), the Pont de l’Europe sur la Loire (with Santiago Calatrava) at Orléans (FR – 5.400 T) and the Demka II railway bridge over the Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal in Utrecht (NL – 5.500 T). Combination bridge in Utrecht The new Combibrug in Utrecht provided some really exciting challenges to its contractor: Victor Buyck Steel Construction. A major engineering effort went into the erection study of this particular bridge. To be built over the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal this bridge will be floated to its place during a 36h time window. Since it can only be partially erected in advance and the structural loading during this phase bears little resemblance to the final one, an extensive study had to be done. Without access to the principal calculation or support from the designers this meant it could only be successfully completed with the help of advanced structural analysis software such as ESA. Used software • SCIA•ESA PT, ESA-Prima Win Combibrug Utrecht
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