The use of high strength steel for columns permits a reduction of their size, cladding has to ensure optimum ventilation, an essential fact when calculating fire saftety. Natural light is a key element for the users' comfort and perception of space but also crucial for the building's energy consumption. A car park is subjected to many functional requirements, but at the same time architectural aesthetics is more and more important.
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The use of steel in multi-storey car parks offers many advantages: optimum use of space by the user thanks to large spaces and reduced structural obstructions; quick and economical construction; design versatility, allowing the architect to add aesthetics to the car park.
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12 January 2011 saw the opening of the Fonds du Logement building in the Rue de Hollerich in Luxembourg City. This building with a 71-metre facade and 8350 m2 floor area demonstrates the versatility of steel: attractive and economic solutions for various types of applications such as car parks, apartments, shops and offices and in particular the extensive array of solutions for fire-resistant steel structures.
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Industrial floors are the most heavily stressed elements in a `whole construction´. As a rule, warehouses, production facilities and connected open spaces are heavily used and different effects are revealed. Through extensive planning and the use of corresponding ready-made steel fibre concrete, an industrial floor can become a maintenance-free and durable structural element.
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For many years enamelled steel has mostly been associated with cooking pots and pans, bathtubs and shower trays. There are indeed very few materials around that can rival enamelled steel for durability, cleanliness and hygiene. That may explain the relatively new interest of architects and property developers in this material for architectural façades, hygienic wall cladding, tunnel walling and interior decoration.
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Since its opening in May 2010, a record number of people visited the World Expo in Shanghai, China. One of the most striking buildings on the 5.3 km2 site was the national pavilion of Luxembourg. Designed by architect Francois Valentiny, the pavilion utilises weathering steel to create a dramatic dialogue between the Expo visitor and nature.
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HSL-Zuid is a 125 km-long high-speed railway line between the Netherlands and Belgium. Together with the Belgian HSL 4 it forms the Schiphol - Antwerp High-Speed Line. Growing numbers of travellers will find in the HSL an environmentally friendly alternative to driving or flying. ArcelorMittal Profil Luxembourg S.A. rolled all the sheet piles used for the construction of the High Speed Line at its Luxembourg mill.
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The experimental building KUBIK uses pioneering research and development focussing on sustainable construction and energy efficiency. It forms part of a Spanish investigation project led by Tecnalia Corporación Tecnológica with the support of ArcelorMittal R&D.
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In addition to our brandnew case study on the Soccer City Stadium, this article presents more details about the structure of the FIFA World Cup's main venue.
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Less planning effort, considerable saving of weight, shorter construction times, flexible spatial use and savings on cost - our flooring solution Slim Floor provides a whole range of advantages for your project.
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The multipurpose building built in Rovereto (Italy), Area 22, contains interesting technological steel solutions, which makes it a symbolic project in Italy: the steel used for the structure is high-strength steel, for the flooring Integrated Floor Beams (IFB) have been used.
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The site of the Hotel Martin's Patershof - the result of renovating and transforming a church into a four star hotel - was the first to implement an innovative solution combining composite flooring / lightweight concrete, namely Cofraplus 77 LS, with Argex concrete consisting of expanded clay aggregates.
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Gian Carlo Giuliani, structural engineer at Redesco, presents the main theory on the fire resistence calculation for structures through the presentation of a case study: the steel structure of a commercial center in Cyprus.
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The INERD concept is an additional constructive system independent of analysis and design that can be applied to reinforced concrete frame structures. The particular objective of the INERD system is to avoid progressive failure, i.e. a chain in which a local failure generates a global failure out of proportion with the original local problem.
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