CLI - Charleroi

Description 

Close to Charleroi station, Franki built a new logistics infrastructure centre. It did so on behalf of Infrabel.

The building consists of two different wings: a technical part with a maintenance workshop, a storage area and premises needed by the users of these services (e.g. showers, changing rooms) and a second zone above the first consisting of offices for Infrabel employees.

The structure of the building, which has a total of 3,400 m² of office space and 3,000 m² of halls, consists mainly of concrete. In the technical zone, the structure resembles an industrial structure, with precast columns supporting beams of pre-stressed precast concrete elements. A bridge crane is also installed in the same zone. In the storage areas, the floor slab consists of a foundation slab resting on foundation piles. The offices were constructed with precast elements, including prestressed floor slabs. Some of these have a large span length of 13 metres.

Specific to this project is the presence of a large masonry sewer system under the building. To completely separate the building from that system, the entire structure was designed to bridge the sewer system. This was done by using a wall of pincer piles that not only serve as foundations for the vertical loads of the building, but can also perform a suspending function when the sewer system decays.

Category: Buildings; Industrial construction & logistics, Offices

Since 1998 Franki has been part of Willemen Groep, the largest family construction group in Belgium.

 
location 

Project Details

Contractor
Rue Cambier Dupret, Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium
Client 
Infrabel
Architects 
EUROGARE
Engineering Office 
Bureau Greisch
Construction period
2 years 11 months
Start work
03-2016
End of work
02-2019