For ‘De Kering’ in Lommel, a mixed renovation and new-build project combining ground-floor retail, 23 apartments and underground parking, Macobo (now M-gineers) structural team leader Liesbeth Torfs relied on Diamonds’ fast recalculation times to respond to the frequent on-site interventions renovation work demands: structural models could be updated and recalculated in minutes whenever conditions on site changed, letting the engineering team keep adding value to the architect and developer throughout construction rather than only at the design stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Macobo\u2019s Structural Design team leader (now M-gineers), ing. Liesbeth Torfs is closely involved in highly diverse projects. She\u2019s more than happy to comment on some of the recent and current projects that her team has worked on. “Challenges can be very different from one project to another,” Liesbeth says. “Consider for example the ‘De Kering’ project in Lommel, Belgium, for which we have worked with D&A architecten<\/a> on behalf of Loomess. The ground floor is fully furnished as a commercial area, while on the floors there are 23 apartments with spacious terraces. Also, there is an underground level providing ample parking space. Located in the commercial heart of the city of Lommel, this project elegantly combines renovated and newly built parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In projects where renovation is involved, we must be able to play the ball very quickly as on-site interventions are needed more frequently. Under these circumstances, it is of particular importance to have access to a structural design analysis software like Diamonds. Analysis models can be updated and recalculated on the fly, providing us with the instrument that we need to provide added value to both the project developer and the architect almost instantaneously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Calculation times are a definite plus of Diamonds. Because Diamonds allows us to recalculate a structural design in just a matter of minutes, we firmly improve our agility as an engineering team. In addition, Diamonds’ great ease of use is essential to us in our day-to-day tasks as structural engineers. If a new colleague strengthens our team (and in a fast growing company like Macobo (now M-gineers), that happens frequently), it only takes a few days at the most to get up to full speed with Diamonds. I don\u2019t know of any other structural design analysis software that makes this possible\u201d Liesbeth concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlaying the ball quickly using 3D structural design analysis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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