projects overview
VidaXL phase 4
Horst aan de Maas
Powerful construction for a building with a logistics bridge

Delivered: 2021
Client: VidaXL
Contractor: Van der Heijden Bouw
Architect: Denc Netherlands B.V.
Photo credits: Gerard Saarberg

#Logistics

For our client Vida-XL, we calculated the structure of their new distribution center in Horst aan de Maas. This concerns phase 4 of the storage building of over 150,000 m² GLA on a footprint of 123,000 m² in total. What is unique is the size of the building together with the logistics bridge, which connects phase 3 to phase 4 over the public road.

Naam: Pascal Ruivenkamp
Functie: Senior Constructeur

Pascal Ruivenkamp is involved in this project from Pelecon as Senior Structural Engineer: "The strength of the structural design is the cooperation of the portal trusses above the mezzanine in combination with the roof bracing. Due to the length of the 6 building sections and the client's desire not to use any wind bracing in the building, reducing the upward and horizontal forces in the side and intermediate facades is certainly desirable. This way we reduce a significant amount of kilograms of roof bracing and the tensile forces are on the side and intermediate facades, so there are no tensile piles."

Pascal says that Pelecon could not contain its curiosity and has already made several visits to the construction site of the VidaXL project. "We saw several assembly crews and ditto cranes very energetically pulling up the steel structure designed by Pelecon at VidaXL phase 4 in Horst aan de Maas. The first floor slabs for the mezzanine floor were soon laid and the roof slabs were shot onto the steel structure."

A nice detail of the building is that the fire walls between the different building parts were also included. Pascal explains that these had to be placed before an adjacent building section could be made due to the separated steel structures. "It's like this: first one building section (row of columns) is erected, then the fire wall (gas concrete panels) is placed against it, Pascal says. "Only then can construction be done on the other side of the hall (column row on the other side). This order is usual, otherwise there is a high risk of damaging the gas concrete panels."

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