Customer: DHL  
Budget: € 720.000
Execution period: 3 months

In Zaventem, at Brussels Airport airside, our Stallaert department has completed the complex demolition of the former parcel sorting centre.

The DHL sorting centre was located in buildings leased from Brussels Airport Company.

Now it has moved to its new premises on the Haachtsesteenweg, the courier company had to restore the spacious property to its original condition and hand it over to Brussels Airport Company.

The demolition works were a real challenge. The three-storey office space and technical facility – an immense steel construction – had to be completely removed, while retaining the surrounding structure. All the steel was cut away. Lastly, the damaged concrete floor was repaired.

One of the terms of the tender was a precise estimate of the tonnage of steel to be removed. Our department also provided an accurate estimate of the number of workers and the duration of the works.

To cut all that steel, Stallaert employed its LaBounty shears, fitted on a Caterpillar 345CL. The shears weigh 10,000 kg and have a maximum cutting force of 1,743 metric tonnes. 

Customer : Beliris
Budget : € 20 million
Execution period : 3-4 years

In Brussels, Viabuild is working around the clock on the reconstruction of the city centre boulevards. A large-scale project running via the Bourse, from Place de Brouckère to Place Fontainas, and thus including almost all of Boulevard Anspach and the side streets.

Where cars could previously drive unhindered from the Gare du Nord to the Gare du Midi, this area is now to be turned into a full-blown pedestrian zone with trees, flower beds, kiosks and water features. A fountain is planned at the Bourse and in the Place de Brouckère, water is to be incorporated into the streetscape.

Both in the Place de Brouckère and the Place de la Bourse, Viabuild is also applying a waterproof membrane on the roof of the two metro stations. This has already been done in the Place de Brouckère, but not yet in the Place de la Bourse.

What is special about the design is that as much as 35,000 m² of Belgian bluestone has been incorporated from end to end. Only the side streets have cobblestones and flat cobblestones.

Customer: Beliris
Budget: € 7,500.000 excl. VAT
Execution period: 14 months

Viabuild is involved in the revamping of the Ninoofsepoort in Molenbeek until the end of July 2018. The work was started in May 2017.

Viabuild is mainly responsible for the sewer works. In addition, it must also reconstruct the roads and the footpaths. All the cycle paths are being laid in yellow ochre asphalt.

The footpaths for the Molenbeek section have also been given that characteristic colour. On the Brussels side, the footpaths are being laid in flat cobblestones. Around the future building of Besix, the owner of one of the plots, the pavement consists of a concrete slab in washed concrete.

The project also comprises the construction of a park with a fountain, playground, trees and benches. Furthermore, Viabuild supplied 3 renovated tram stops for the new tram tracks (laid outside our contract).

Finally, preparatory works are underway for a future bicycle bridge across the canal at the back of the Besix building.

Client: SPW - Service Public de Wallonie
Budget: EUR 3.4 million
Completion deadline: 30 calendar days

Viabuild upgraded the complete bottom and top layer of the three lanes on the A7 over a total of 7 km between Bergen and Saint-Ghislain. The 2 intersections on that route also received a comprehensive make-over at Saint-Ghislain and the R5 in the direction of Frameries, constituting yet another kilometre.

The work continued 7 days a week. Viabuild pursued a flexible work schedule with night and weekend work because there were unexpected challenges. It turned out that the section of the right lane also had to be deepened. Overall, the strict deadline was made as Viabuild was able to complete the works as per agreement within 30 calendar days.

Client: Peter Benoit School Neder-Over-Heembeek

Budget: € 116.954,91

Completion period: 31/07/2017-28/08/2017

The playground of the Peter Benoit School in Neder-Over-Heembeek was renovated with coloured mastic asphalt. The work comprised breaking up the old playground and then installing a new under and top layer. We applied game patterns (hopscotch, an alphabet caterpillar ...) in different colours over the whole playground using a thermoplastic process.

The possibilities of coloured mastic asphalt are endless. It is usually used for parking spaces, bus lanes and cycle paths. Playgrounds with coloured asphalt are a fairly new application.

Coloured asphalt is as strong as traditional black asphalt. The black petroleum colour is just removed during the production process. Another tone is then added to the colourless granulate. The range is virtually endless. 

One of the factors making the job even more difficult is the increased access control due to the recent attacks. Everyone is searched and vehicles are checked each and every time.

The most important challenge is to keep the dust production to an absolute minimum, since works are only a few meters away from the runways and we had to avoid
having any debris flying into the airplane engines. 

For an industrial cleaning company our Sewer Renovation Department has renovated a sewer pipeline without trenches, so as to cause no disturbance.
Works started at 7 am and were finished around 4 pm with sewers in perfect state.

The pipeline was around 400 m in diameter and 40 m in length.

• budget 1,8 milj €
• realisation period : 1 month
• 200 000 m² of milling and renewing asphalt in the stackingzones of the containerterminal
• milling with at 2-m mill, on-site stocking, sent to the asphalt center in Grimbergen
• breaking up of 10 000 m² cllinkers between the crane beams
• laying 2 under layers and a 5 cm toplayer in asphalt 
• laying a 5 cm toplayer with modified binder

Client : City of Antwerp and Riolink.

Amount : € 720.000

New sewers in the Vesting- and Appelmansstraat, pavements in in sawn granite boulders and the roadway in washed concrete by Viabuild

Job will be done in 3 phases to limit the bother to the Diamant sector to a minimum.

End of works :April 2017.

Stabilization works, drainage and foundations were done for WDP by Viabuild in Heppignies

Work started in November 2015 for the stabilizatin. The drainage, sewer and foundations were finished 3 months after.


Project was within budget.

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Viabuild has been busy since a few months in Rumst on the Weinerberger location.
The project is developing to the customers' satifaction thanks to the expert guidance of Jeroen Verlinden.

This project was nicely put in the spotlight thanks to the  BOUW.TV spot with an interview of Bart Keymeulen, COO of Viabuild! Broadcasts are provided 11/6 + 12/6 & 18/6 + 19/6 on Channel Z and that from Saturday afternoon to Monday afternoon.
Enjoy!


The Viabuild!-team

Rénovation ONEM/RVA Brussels

March 2016 – May 2016

Customer : ONEM/RVA Brussels
Entrepreneur : Strabag

2nd renovation phase - Faculty of science, University of Gent 

Duration of the works : Start of June 2015 – end of January 2016

Client : University of Ghent 
Contractor : CEI - De Meier 

Prior to this second phase, all asbestos-containing materials were removed by our Asbestos Removal colleagues.

In connection with this, Stallaert fully stripped the building down to the concrete structure over 9 floors.

As a result, among others the façade, roof, lifts and all manner of technical works were dismantled.

Stallaert's demolition works took place partly in parallel with the rebuilding by the main contractor, which meant that compliance with the predefined schedule was very important.

Asphalt works E42 near Courcelles

During construction of the 7.000 sqm library of Ghent, 3.000 tons of steel was used.

Viabuild’s Fireproofing department is responsible for the fire protection of the six-storey building, by installing fire resistive coating on 3.000 m² structural steel, the treatment of the joints and fire-resistant protection off passings through walls.

Works from : August 2014 – May 2015

Client : SPI, rue du Vertbois 11, 4000 Liège


On the Val Benoit Site in Liège, Stallaert did all the necessary demolition works for the complete rehabilitation of the "Civil Engineering" building.

The works were divided in three categories:

1. Demolition. Two buildings had to be completely demolished. On of these buildings, higher than 20 m, had to be demolished very carefullly as it was situated in an inside patio surrounded by four buildings that had to be kept. The access of the demolition crane and the removal of demolition rubble had to be done through a single enlarged sectional door.
   
2. Drainage works. The whole of the other buildings had to be completely stripped implying the complete demolition of non supporting walls, divisions, floors, false ceilings, window frames... 
   
3. Asbestos removal. The frames contained flocked asbestos so that the building had to be done "floor by floor". This asbestos removal was done by Viabuild Special Services.

During the past weekend of 28 and 29 March, Infrabel has replaced the level crossing in the Rue de Stée in Braibant by an alternative construction: a tunnel for road traffic and a pedestrian subterranean passage.

Using these new ways of access, drivers and pedestrians can cross safely to the other side of the railway tracks.

During the works, the teams created the large tunnel shaft in the tracks. The pedestrian tunnel was placed in the trench with a mobile crane. The tunnels were put together next to the tracks and placed on jacks. The colossus which is as wide as the public road, with a length of 35 m and more than 8 m high, weighs no less than 1500 tonnes. The operation took 30 hours to complete.

This exceptional construction will ensure that train traffic on line 162 Brussels-Luxembourg, one of the busiest railway lines in Wallonia, is interrupted as little as possible from now on.

The new tunnel will be taken into service in July 2015.

Sewer renovation of the Tangebeek collector

Patron : Heijmans
Costs : € 440.000

Project description

The Tangebeek stream in Grimbergen was partially encased with an ARMCO-pipe. This type of tubes with their characteristic steel walls were first laid at the start of the 1950s. Bearing in mind that the pipe in question was in very bad condition and that the inconvenience to the local residents had to be kept to a minimum, Viabuild opted to reline the sewer using a sleeve.

Its diameter of 1,900 mm and length of 134 m make this section one of the largest liners ever placed in Belgium. The works were completed in 3 days.

Redesign of Botermarkt and Bruul in Mechelen by Viabuild

Patron : City of Mechelen
Start of the works : 5 August 2014
Cost : € 3,425,276

Project description

The redesign of the Bruul site is the first phase of the redevelopment of the Grote Markt - Station Square axis in the city and is part of the Mechelen Boulevard lives! project. This gateway into Mechelen is being redesigned as a boulevard and more specifically as a shopping and strolling area.

The works include in a first phase:

• removing and relaying the surfaces of the Botermarkt, including foundation
• redesigning the natural and in some places channelled stream
• constructing a fountain
  
  
  Some figures:
• Soil moved: Surfacing: 1,500 m³                                      
                       Stream: 450 m³
                       Planting zones: 100 m³
• 1,350 m³: Foundations for granite slabs
• 2,400 m²: New granite slabs
• 145 m³: Heavyweight concrete for the new open stream
• a total of 140 m: LED lighting along the stream’s banks
• Fountain: 20 fountain heads on a total surface area of 110 m²
                 Edging with LED lighting for a total of 65 m

Activities: Demolition and Asbestos removal by Viabuild


The Astrotower, an office building in the Astronomielaan in Brussels, will be completely destroyed on the inside and brought back to a sort of concrete structure by our Stallaert department. All technical installations from the ground floor to the 30th floor were also removed.

Our company Asbestos Removal is still working hard to remove all the asbestos in the building. This is the first Viabuild job where both our companies Stallaert and Asbestos Removal are working as one team.

In parallel with these works, our Stallaert company has also started with the demolition works for Cordeel. For the moment we are opening shafts, breaking and removing non-load bearing walls, making floor openings or new shafts.

Soon we will start with the demolition of the technical floors on the roof, roof included, after which we will start with the demolition of the whole front of the building.
These panels contain asbestos and must therefore carefully be removed and taken to pieces in a hermetically sealed invironement.

The tower is 107 meters high, has 33 floors, was build in 1976 and offered office space of 34.820 square meters. There are 269 parking spaces. The offices were used by the Fortis Bank untl 2011.

Construction of cycle paths for the Brussels regional cycling routes network by Viabuild

Patron : Ministry of the Brussels Capital Region (MBHG)
Start of the works : April 2014
Costs : € 7.850.000

Project description

The project comprises the construction of a total of 3 km in cycle paths that are part of the Brussels Capital Region’s network of cycling routes. The cycle paths are to be laid around the Audi factory in Forest.

The greatest challenge of the project is not to disrupt easy access to the site for its 6,000 workers and the hundreds of trucks. In order for all this movement to be possible during the project, Viabuild will work in eight different phases.

The cycle paths will be covered in ochre tarmac. The pavements will re-laid and the top layer of the road surface renewed. Plant beds and trees will be provided in between the parking areas at regular intervals to do real justice to the name ‘Forest’.


Some figures:

• Moved 27,000 m³ of soil
• Laid 12,000 m in ID1 precast curb stones and 6,000 m with jump forms 
• Used 3,000 m³ of lean concrete foundation
• Milled and re-laid 5,170 tons of tarmac
• Laid 5,250 m² of cycle paths in ochre tarmac
• Laid 15,000 m² of pavement

Construction of a third lane on the E42 between Daussoulx and Sambreville by Viabuild

Patron : Public Service of Wallonia (SPW)
Start of the works : April 2014
End of the works : August 2014
Costs : € 15.350.000

Project description

The works comprised the construction of a 20-km long third lane on the motorway between Liège and Mons, on the lane between the junction of Daussoulx and Sambreville. The opportunity was used to make repairs on the existing continuously reinforced concrete road surface , laying a SAMI and covering it with tarmac. Viabuild also renovated 8 bridges. This included renewing the expansion joints, replacing the waterproof bridge abutment apron and placing a New Jersey barrier cast on site.

The main challenge for this project consisted of co-ordinating and successfully completing the various tasks within the 70 working days the patron had imposed. Viabuild succeeded in finishing this titanic job 10 working days before the contractually agreed period, claiming the maximum premium for the early opening of the motorway. 

Some figures:

• Moved 42.000 m³ of soil
• Stabilised 14.700 m³ of soil
• Used 21.000 m³ of type I granular subbase
• Laid 130.000 tons of tarmac
• Repaired a total of 32.400 m in cracks in the reinforced concrete
• Repaired 4.000 m² of road surface in continuously reinforced concrete and placed a total of 330 m anchoring abutments

Patron : Aquafin
Start of the works : June 2014
Costs : € 3.068.000

Project description

Thanks to the works, Aquafin will ensure that the wastewater of the residents of the Emile Vloorstraat is connected to the sewage network. Patron of the works Aquafin was founded in 1990 by Belgium’s Flemish Region to help develop, manage and finance the sewage purification infrastructure in the region.

By constructing two separate collectors, one for rain water and one for waste water, the residents’ waste water can be separated from the rain water. The waste water is channelled to the nearby purification plant. The rain water is assembled in its own separate collector, part of the Hollebeek has been channelled underground and flows into an open stream. Thanks to the works, water quality in the Hollebeek will be significantly improved: rain water will be channelled straight into the stream and the waste water will be purified before being released into the stream.

The construction of a separate sewer also significantly increases the possible flow rate, so that flooding in heavy rain is considerably limited.

The construction of a separate system also included a spillway. The very high flow rates going through the collector that was to be renewed and the fact that the collector could not be disconnected during the works, increased the complexity of the works. Pumping such flow rates to a different place means the risk of flooding is considerable when electric supply is interrupted. Because of all this, Viabuild proposed an three-phase alternative way of carrying out the works on the spillway, to make sure that the gravity water drainage remained possible in each phase. This way, the risk of flooding during the works was kept to a minimum.

After the sewage works were completed, the road infrastructure was also redesigned.


Some figures:

• Sewage piping (250 mm to 2,200 mm in diameter): 894 m
• Pipes (2,000 mm x 1,800 mm): 181 m
• Reinforced concrete: 500 m³
• Road surface in tarmac: 5,725 m²
• Cycle path in red tarmac: 2,525 m²
• Pavements in concrete paving slabs: 7,975 m²