IN ELST, A MODERN LABORATORY IS BEING BUILT, WHICH BEARS THE NAME DICOON (DIAGNOSTIEK COMBINATIE OOST-NEDERLAND) AND IS CONNECTED TO THE RIJNSTATE HOSPITAL. THIS IS A UNIQUE AND CHALLENGING PROJECT IN WHICH PELECON IS INVOLVED FROM A TO Z IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS LABORATORY FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN GELDERLAND FROM AND FOR HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS. TOGETHER WITH OUR PARTNERS, WE ARE BUILDING A HIGH-END BUILDING; JAN SNEL IS CONSTRUCTING THE SHELL, WHILE SISTER COMPANY MEDEXS, A SPECIALIST IN THE COMPLETION OF BUILDINGS FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES, IS TAKING CARE OF THE FINISHING TOUCHES.
The request for help to Pelecon was clear: do you want to make a structural design for the superstructure of the building, the stability provisions, and the substructure? Medexs established the framework together with the column positions, we then investigated the possibilities that fall within the Movix system. The Movix system consists of loose floor and roof elements; these elements are placed and stacked on site.
Colleague Evelijn explains, “the building is composed of Movix floors and roofs. Normally, these units have standard dimensions of 6 meters by 3 meters and 7.5 meters by 2.5 meters. For this project, a span of 9 meters by 3 meters had to be created in several places; a modification that is not standard. In addition, we could not install wind bracing everywhere (which is normally the case with the Movix system) due to the desire for free partitioning. Instead, we used the stairwells as stability provisions by placing the wind bracing here. This meant that the floor really had to act as a sheave; we also determined the additional provisions for this.”
Photo credit: Dicoon from Elst