52 Category 1: Buildings 1 ACV Office Building - Sint-Niklaas, Belgium SE Owner ACV Sint-Niklaas Architect Architectenbureau Daens-Demuynck BVBA General Contractor Dugardein-De Sutter Engineering Office Ingenieursbureau G. Derveaux nv Construction Period 11/2012 - 03/2013 An additional office building was built for ACV at Sint-Niklaas. It is a J-shaped steel structure on six concrete columns, allowing traffic beneath the building. The building has two storeys and a roof. Between the 11 steel frames (spanning 12.6 m), a wooden frame structure is used for floors and facades. Not all the steel frames are supported on columns, so laterally the columns are part of a lattice structure with rhs-diagonals. The building is connected to a new concrete/masonry building and an existing building by a small corridor. SCIA Engineer was very helpful when designing the steel connections and calculating the deflection under permanent loads because it allowed for the level of the connection to the existing building to be foreseen, meaning that only the live loads are resting on the existing building. The complexity of the structure was a challenge. As everything is connected and interacting, changing or optimising one part would have an effect on other parts. Ingenieursbureau G Derveaux nv Contact Paul Van Driessche Address Brabantdam 33E 9000 Ghent, Belgium Website www.derveaux.be Ingenieursbureau G. Derveaux nv (ID) was founded in 1958 by engineer Godfried Derveaux and became one of the most important independent engineering offices in Belgium. Today the office is directed by his son, Jan Derveaux. ID is experienced in structural designs for all kinds of construction and in the design (both architectural and structural) of industrial projects.
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