Nemetschek Engineering User Contest 2009 • Category 4: CAE Industrial Buildings & Plants 161 4 ProLogis: Warehouse and offices in Almere exactly define the distortion and underlying forces in the connections. Because of the complexity of the project the following work procedure was laid out: the different components (front elevation and mezzanine, rear elevation, primary and secondary porches) were modelled as separate files. Much attention was paid to the nomenclature to prevent identical definition of steel members while all similar load configurations received the same name. Then each component was optimized. Eventually all components were combined in one file. All steel members were checked again and adjusted where necessary. During ‘navigation’ through the model and for the output much functionality were used: grid, layers, activities (through layer, through reference plane…), shifting of reference coordinates. For the further technical elaboration of the project several documents were created: result reports, stress diagrams, foundation loads. Our task is to realize a turnkey project in cooperation with all of the stakeholders: Prologis, Antalis, Dekker Packaging and Modo van Gelder. Since its cooperation with Establis proofed to be valuable on several recent occasions, especially for international projects, BGC again chose to team up with Establis for the structural engineering of the project in Almere. The municipality of Almere for the first time allowing the foundation of the floor plate with HSP-piles, is a very remarkable accomplishment and is the result of the successful cooperation between BGC and Establis. The handover of the project is planned for September 2009.
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