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VK Engineering
Address Zevenbergenlaan 2a • 8200 Brugge (BE)
Telephone +32 50 390553
Fax +32 51 262021
Contact Mr Geert Devolder
Email vke-cs-bru@vkgroup.be
Website www.vkgroup.be
VK Engineering is the new identity of Ingenieurs- en Architectenbureau
Van Kerckhove (Roeselare, est. 1952), Studium
(Bruges, est. 1963), Bureau d’Etudes Coget (Brussels, est. 1974)
and Ingénieurs Associés (Brussels, est. 1977).
Ingenieurs- en Architectenbureau Van Kerckhove, established
by Hubert Van Kerckhove and managed by Peter Van Kerckhove
since 1982, took over Studium in the same year and Coget
in 2000. The expansion of the Van Kerckhove-group urged
a more streamlined organization under the joint VK-label,
regrouping the engineering services in 2002 in VK Engineering
Building Services and Civil & Structural. Ingénieurs Associés reinforced
VK in 2004.
With its steady expansion, VK enlarges its action radius, with
regard to expertise and knowhow, as well as geographically.
With offices in Brussels, Merelbeke, Bruges and Roeselare,
employing about 150 people, VK is one the largest engineering
firms of Belgium.
VK Engineering offers its knowhow and knowledge especially
to the private market, more specifically offices, industrial, hospitality
& leisure and the residential market. Through the years,
it has put challenging and large-scale projects to its name. The
new NATO-headquarters, the Mondrian business center, the
Marriott-hotel (Ghent), the GlaxoSmithKline-complex (Waver),
the new Antwerp Law Courts, the Charlemagne building (Brussels)
and the Bruges Concert Building are but a few examples.
VK Engineering consists of a team of multidisciplinary consulting
engineers. The firm is subdivided into cells, each one guided by
an expert project director, and undertakes studies in building
services and civil & structural engineering of prominent projects.
It engages into various missions, from the study of new buildings,
to renovations of (protected) monuments, assessments
and management developments.
VK Engineering supports the architectural and industrial
concept by its creative approach within a rational structure.
In maintaining a smooth and coordinated cooperation in the
various construction phases, the project is realized according to
the concept of the designer and to the satisfaction of the client.
Used software • SCIA•ESA PT
As a well-established engineering firm, VK Engineering evidentally
also closely follows the newest and future developments,
such as CDF simulations, night cooling, natural ventilation,
activation of the concrete nucleus, geothermal studies, co- and
trigeneration, solar collectors, …
As such, VK Engineering is capable of offering its clients an integrated
study and performing end product.
VK Engineering is equipped with an extended library, containing
the most recent standards and technical data, and disposes of
advanced soft- and hardware.
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City Hall Koksijde
City Hall Koksijde
The project regards the new town hall of the city of Koksijde;
the engineering studies were entrusted to VK Engineering.
VK Engineering created a 3D-drawing model of the entire
construction that served as a working base for the architect
and a starting point for all further execution drawings. The
entire construction was modelled in 3D-software, keeping all
necessary degrees of freedom in mind.
The building consists of 2 office wings, with an atrium
in between of 25 by 25 metres, with a clear height of 20
metres. The office wings count 4 floors above ground level,
which contains landscape offices. Slender steel constructions
and the glazed atrium symbolize the transparency the town
council wants to emanate.
The building can be accessed by a footbridge on the ground
level.
In the atrium the central council chamber catches the eye,
it is shaped like an elliptic structure, “floating” above the
ground.