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September 2006 

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To support the international expansion SCIA has founded a training centre for its current and future business partners. SCIA is bringing innovative software and services to the construction market, a market that is constantly pursuing cost reduction and efficiency by adapting new technologies.

Being part of the Nemetschek concern, SCIA has now access to a wider network of sales & services organisations. To be successful in the market, the required competence is high: knowledge of products and technology, know-how of the engineering requirements of future clients, sales skills to be able to work out standard & tailor made solutions resolving client’s pains, quality procedures in logistics (delivery, support,..), etc.

More than 15 new partners are starting the training session at SCIA’s headquarters, all well cared for by the SCIA staff and external trainers. The new partners come from East- and Southern Europe (Turkey, Croatia, Slovenia, Spain, ).

For SCIA it is an important step in expanding its operations, therefore the best professional attention is devoted to succeed in “going fast to the market”.

Customer: Technum N.V.
Owner: Carinox (Arcelor-group)

About Technum:
Technum N.V. is a dynamic, internationally oriented and strongly growing multidisciplinary office for engineering and consultancy with establishments in Antwerp, Ghent, Hasselt, Leuven and Ostend. Technum provides services for the authorities, industrial and service-providing companies, project developers, international institutions, etc. for each project, single or multidisciplinary, and for each project phase. Technum has the capacity, expertise and creativity required to guarantee clients specialised and complete guidance in numerous fields.

About the project:
The new Carinox stainless steel plant in Charleroi is now well underway to achieve a production of 1 million tonnes of stainless steel per year. Following the ramp-up phase, the steel plant should reach full capacity at the beginning of 2007.

The total investing sum was 250 million Euros; the steel structure ran up to a total of 15 million Euros. The total surface of the plant is 23.000 m²; the maximum height is 53 m.
Technum executed the design engineering, included static calculation, detail calculation for connections, general arrangement drawings, material take off, grating drawings, detail drawings so that each workshop could start immediately the
workshop drawings for columns and crane girder entirely detailed.

Steel structure details: The total weight is 7533 ton: the part of the columns: 1700 ton crane girders: 1900 ton floors: 650 ton roof: 754 ton walls: 425 ton rest: auxiliary structures Crane capacity: EAF-bay: 300 ton AOD-bay: 360 ton Casting bay: 100 ton Tundish bay: 60 ton Bins level on 43 meter: dead load: 700 ton capacity: 6000 ton All the design engineering was done in ESA-Prima Win. The roof-structure and columns, even as the walls, are calculated in a 3D-model, the longitudinal bracings in a 2D-model.