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CAE Civil Works
Victor Buyck Steel Construction
Address Pokmoere 4 • 9900 Eeklo (BE)
Telephone +32 9-376-22-11
Fax +32 9-376-22-01
Contact Mr Bruno Dursin
Email bruno.dursin@buyck.be
Website www.groupbuyck.com
With a production capacity of 35.000 tons a year, Victor Buyck
Steel Construction has been going strong since 1927 and
has developed into an international group, with 4 production
facilities in Belgium and Malaysia, and a sales branch in
the UK. The company currently has production sites in Eeklo,
Wondelgem (BUMAR), Hamont-Achel (CSM) and Kuala Lumpur
(VB Malaysia). Our company employs 520 people and offers a
turnkey solution to its customers, from engineering and fabrication,
to anti-corrosion treatment, transport and erection. The
company has extensive experience of major steel construction
projects worldwide and continues to expand its activities and
invest in the most modern computer controlled fabrication
equipment.
The company is proud to display the ISO 9001 Quality Certificate
and the VCA** Safety Certificate. Our success has always been
based upon a policy of international growth. Yet we have never
lost sight of our roots and we retain a respect for family values.
The company has a policy of continuous investment in people,
training and production technology. We specialize in two main
areas: whilst on the one hand we focus on civil engineering,
which is predominantly within the public domain, including
transport and infrastructural projects like barriers, locks, bridges
or viaducts; we also concentrate on the private domain, which
incorporates tall office buildings, sports and leisure infrastructure
as well as heavy industrial construction work. Our service
goes from design through to the erection of the building. All
this can only be achieved because we have experienced and
qualified people helping the customer at every stage of the
construction process. Building in steel requires more technical
knowledge than building in concrete and as a result we like to
get involved in project nearer their conception, so that we can
assist in finding the best technical and economically viable solution.
VBSC has been involved in a number of significant projects
such as the Swiss-Re building in London (12.000 T), several
high-rise building at Canary Wharf, the lift bridge at Rouen (FR
– 3.500 T), the Pont de l’Europe sur la Loire (with Santiago Calatrava)
at Orléans (FR – 5.400 T) and the Demka II railway bridge
over the Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal in Utrecht (NL – 5.500 T).
Used software • SCIA•ESA PT, ESA-Prima Win
74 SCIA User Contest 2007 • Category 3 • CAE Civil Works
Combibrug Utrecht
Combination bridge in Utrecht
The new Combibrug in Utrecht provided some really
exciting challenges to its contractor: Victor Buyck
Steel Construction. A major engineering effort went
into the erection study of this particular bridge. To
be built over the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal this bridge
will be floated to its place during a 36h time window.
Since it can only be partially erected in advance and
the structural loading during this phase bears little
resemblance to the final one, an extensive study had
to be done. Without access to the principal calculation
or support from the designers this meant it could
only be successfully completed with the help of
advanced structural analysis software such as ESA.