25 Category 1: Buildings 1 Contact Gert Cocquyt, Frederique Noë, Henk Vanwalleghem Address Axxes Business Park, Guldensporenpark Building A, n°4 9820 Merelbeke, Belgium Website www.vkgroup.be VK Architects & Engineers offers its services in healthcare, buildings, industry and public space. Our multi-disciplinary engineering building services and civil & structural engineering have a proven track record with renowned architects. VK’s portfolio features many challenging and large-scale projects, new constructions, as well as renovations, expert assessments and management. The new NATO headquarters, the Antwerp law courts and the Ghent Ghelamco Arena are but a few examples. Owner THV Vastgoedruimte Noord nv-Immobel nv Architect Jaspers-Eyers Architects Project Developer Immobel Engineering Office VK Engineering nv Construction Period 04/2015 - 12/2016 The TBR Brussels Tower is 87 m high and contains 80,000 m2 of office space. The structure consists of a wide existing building and a plinth. The project involves the building of a new tower (measuring 25 m by 25 m) on the foundation slab of the former plinth. A steel bridge will connect the two towers. In this project, SCIA Engineer has been used for several analyzes: the global stability, the deformation of the tower, a check of the wind comfort, a second order check, the analysis of the forces in the existing foundation slab, the differential settlement caused by the new tower, the determination of the reinforcement, etc. To estimate the horizontal deformations, taking cracked lintel shear beams into account, sub regions with reduced stiffness were used. To determine the internal forces and the reinforcement in the lintel shear beams, integration strips were used. The interoperability of SCIA Engineer has been used intensively: • The import and export tools of SCIA Engineer were used to optimise the sections of the columns with a spreadsheet developed by VK Engineering. • The R2S-link is used to produce formwork drawings directly from the calculation model. TBR Brussels Tower - Brussels, Belgium SE VK Engineering Deformation visual increased
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