121 Category 3: Industrial Buildings and Plants 3 New Site for City Services - Ghent, Belgium SE Owner Stad Ghent Architect Bureau PARTNERS - Architecten & Ingenieurs nv General Contractor Depret NV Engineering Office Bureau PARTNERS - Architecten & Ingenieurs nv Construction Period 05/2011 - 04/2013 The new site for the city services contains offices, social facilities, warehouses, workplaces, outside storage, parking spaces, green zones and a parking building. The building is designed as a low energy building. The specific shape of the building and the concept of the inner street is the result of the energetic analysis, making optimal use of solar heat. Due to the length of the building (280 m), it is divided into 3 separate parts. The first is offices, social facilities and warehouses; the second is workplaces and warehouses, and the remaining section is the parking building. The layout of all parts is similar, and is constructed with 3 large spans, respectively 16 m - 12 m - 15.5 m. The main roof beams and the central columns of the inner street are made of tapered lamellar wood. For the intermediate floor of the offices, a 14.5 m span was needed, made of prestressed hollow core slabs with a total thickness of 46 cm. The shape and orientation of the building, combined with the use of slender concrete columns and large tapered wooden beams and columns, results in a building where stability, architecture, functionality and durability go hand in hand. Bureau PARTNERS - Architecten & Ingenieurs nv Contact Tim Neels Address Meulesteedsesteenweg 396 9000 Ghent, Belgium Website www.bureaupartners.be Bureau PARTNERS - Architecten & Ingenieurs sa, founded in 1987, is a multidisciplinary study team of architects and engineers working in the public and industrial sector. Due to this complementarity, Bureau PARTNERS is able to approach any problem from a wide variety of angles. This process results in a sophisticated design and in a better balance between quality and cost for each discipline.
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