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PELECON,
THE INVISIBLE
FORCE

The road from dream to reality runs along challenges, tasks, and decisions. Gradually, adjustments are made, reconsidered, and adjusted where necessary. Since the creative mind sets the direction, limitations are avoided. And always the starting point is an initiative. An idea.

It is no different when designing a building. Only once the idea is turned into a concrete plan do feasibility, sustainability and practicability become important factors. The skeleton of the building, the structure, then literally supports the design. That reality makes the expertise of a building structural engineer literally vital.

Pelecon is a specialist in converting designs into concrete and feasible constructions. Almost fifty years of experience enable us to convert an initial design into reality as sharply as possible. This is mostly about technology, but we are aware that it is even more about personal contact. By working closely together and communicating directly with clients, architects and builders, the best ideas come to life. But whatever the collaboration looks like, Pelecon watches over the safety of all building users. Carefree.

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Your advisor for building constructions since 1976

f.l.t.r. Mack Stolwijk and Henk van Vliet.

“We are the conscience of the structural work.”

Henk van Vliet


Constructive, structural & innovative

Are you looking for a partner with solid structural knowledge and experience at home and abroad? Pelecon specialises in a total concept in the field of bearing and stability constructions of distribution centres, buildings, offices, shopping centres, homes, and schools.
Pelecon is the technical knowledge partner of architects, property developers and construction companies at home and abroad. With an office in the heart of Gouda and a branch right next to the A28 motorway in Amersfoort, we serve our customers f rom A to Z in the field of building structures: from design to calculation and from drawing to inspection during execution.

The feasibility of a construction is determined in the design and that is where we at Pelecon excel in. We distinguish ourselves through our knowledge, experience, and creativity.

May we work with you to achieve optimal results? We would be happy to sit down with you.

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Recent Projects

Distributioncenter Hunkemöller, Almere

Distributioncenter Hunkemöller, Almere

PELECON CREATED THE STRUCTURAL DESIGN FOR HUNKEMÖLLER’S RECENTLY COMPLETED NEW DISTRIBUTION CENTER AT THE STICHTSEKANT BUSINESS PARK IN ALMERE. THE DUTCH LINGERIE CHAIN WITH CONSIDERABLE GROWTH AMBITIONS NEEDED SPACE! ARCHITECT DENC NETHERLANDS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CREATIVE DESIGN OF THE DC AND INVOLVED PELECON IN THIS PROJECT. WHERE OUR STRENGTH LAY IN DESIGNING AS ECONOMICALLY AS POSSIBLE WHICH RESULTED IN A SLENDER, YET ROBUST STEEL CONSTRUCTION. FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT, THE VALUABLE COLLABORATION BETWEEN ARCHITECT AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEER RESULTED IN A BEAUTIFUL END RESULT; A MODERN WAREHOUSE WITH OFFICE WHICH IS A REAL ADDITION BETWEEN THE SOMETIMES ‘BORING’ DISTRIBUTION CENTERS.

The new DC for Hunkemöller consists of two separate warehouses with a total of 44 docks at the front and a mezzanine floor of 12 meters deep. Phase 1 of the warehouses has been taken into use by Hunkemöller itself, with two mezzanine floors in the warehouse and an automated miniload system. The new DC also includes a multi-level office consisting of a loose construction with three floors, each floor equipped with a canopy that is also walkable in some positions.

Distribution center Ara

Distribution center Ara

DEVELOPING A DISTRIBUTION CENTER THAT FITS WITHIN THE LANDSCAPE WAS THE OBJECTIVE OF THE OWNER, PROPERTY DEVELOPER, ARCHITECT AND BUILDER PELECON. THE RESULT IS A DISTRIBUTION CENTER WITH ALL THE FUNCTIONALITIES THAT BELONG TO A DISTRIBUTION CENTER, BUT THANKS TO AN ECOLOGICAL NATURE SCREEN OF ALMOST ONE KILOMETER LONG AND 15 METERS HIGH, THE DISTRIBUTION CENTER GETS A BEAUTIFUL ECOLOGICAL BOW AND PROMOTES BIODIVERSITY IN THE AREA.

The ecological nature screen is projected partly against the building, partly freestanding and partly above the dock positions. "At the base of the nature screen is an impressive steel frame, which in the coming months and years will be overgrown by a wide variety of plants," Stolwijk says. "Together with the architect, we made the initial design sketches for this and refined them further and further, keeping in mind aesthetics, stability and feasibility. In this way, nature, architecture, technology and functionality come together beautifully."

Intralox LLC Europe, Hoofddorp

Intralox LLC Europe, Hoofddorp

WE ARE FREQUENTLY CALLED IN BY ARCHITECTS TO ADVISE ON CONSTRUCTION DURING THE DESIGN PHASE. ULTIMATELY, OF COURSE, THAT BEAUTIFUL BUILDING MUST ALSO BE SAFE FOR ITS USERS. ARCHITECT DENC ASKED US AT AN EARLY STAGE OF THE ASSIGNMENT TO MAKE A STRUCTURAL DESIGN FOR INTRALOX LLC EUROPE'S NEW BUILDING. INTRALOX HAD THE AMBITION TO MOVE FROM AMSTERDAM TO SCHIPHOL TRADE PARK AND DEVELOP A EUROPEAN HEADQUARTERS WITH A PRODUCTION HALL.

Intralox is a global provider of transportation solutions for moving the most critical products. The company supplies a variety of industries: from the food processing industry to postal and parcel distribution. Schiphol Trade Park in Hoofddorp fits Intralox's needs well, especially the central location and therefore good accessibility offer advantages. However, Schiphol Trade Park's high sustainability ambitions also align with Intralox's core values.