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To adapt the ‘Veerse Toren’ at the Hooipolder interchange for its new purpose, 08Metaal constructed all the new floors in the iconic water tower using lightweight steel-sheet-concrete floors within a new steel structure. The thin, profiled HODY® 80 trapezoidal steel sheets from REPPEL specialist building solutions form the base of the steel-sheet concrete floors, serving as both permanent formwork and bottom reinforcement.
“A key feature of the Veerse Toren project is its short lead time,” explains Reginald van Dooremalen of REPPEL specialist building solutions. “The steel-deck concrete floors had to be completed in a short amount of time. Would we be able to deliver the right steel sections in time?” No problem at all for REPPEL specialist building solutions, which always keeps a stock of standard slab lengths for its HODY® floor slab types.
“Due to the relatively small floor panels in this project, the shape of the floor panels in the water tower, and the desire for a studless installation, we opted for our HODY® 80 trapezoidal panels with a steel thickness of 1.00 mm,” explains Van Dooremalen. “The HODY® 80 panels are characterized by their low weight and a trapezoidal profile with a height of 80 mm. The panels are suitable for ‘low-profile’ steel-decked concrete floors with floor thicknesses starting at 130 mm.” In this project, steel-decked concrete floors with a thickness of 140 mm were constructed, limiting the amount of concrete per square meter to 96 liters per m².
HODY® 80 trapezoidal sheets are available in four different steel thicknesses, have a working width of 900 mm, and are rolled to project-specific sheet lengths of up to 12 meters. “In addition to custom-made products, we also supply HODY® 80 plates with a steel thickness of 1.00 mm in standard lengths of 5,000 mm and 7,500 mm from stock,” said Van Dooremalen. “Given the project’s very short turnaround time, these standard lengths were the ideal solution. At the construction site in Raamsdonkveer, 08Metaal cut the plates to size to match the shape of the water tower’s floor panels. It was a fun puzzle to solve, with a truly beautiful end result.”
