Advance Steel Places UFO in Town

Project : UFO Zoetermeer.
Building place : Shopping center West Zoetermeer.
Company : CSM
Info:

• Weight 290 tons
• Diameter 35 meters
• Height 12 meters
• Supports on only 3 concrete columns having a 800 mm diameter
• Draftsman : Eddy Vrolix
• Software used : Advance - Steel suite

The project "UFO Zoetermeer" is in construction in Zoetermeer based on a design made with Advance - Steel.

This project designed and detailed by CSM, a subsidiary of the Victor Buyck group, makes extensive use of Advance - Steel's capabilities (complex geometry modeling , curved beams, specific user connections). The project is a UFO shaped structure in the middle of the Zoetermeer town center.

CSM did the structural calculation, detailing and checking of all the fabrication drawings.

The project currently under construction (May 2005) and is a good example of the tremendous capabilities offered by Advance - Steel for modeling and fabricating complex structures.