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- client
- Boortmalt
- date
- start of project: 2002
- finished in: 2005
- location
- Antwerp, Belgium
boortmalt - phase III
expansion of a malting plant with 2 round towers and technical rooms
Boortmalt is a producer of malt and belongs to the European top in this branch of the industry. The malting plant from phase 1 and 2 was also designed by VK and consists of 2 round towers with a diameter of 30 and 34 metres. The expansion of phase 3 contains 2 new round towers, with a diameter of 32 metres and a height of 41 metres. The new buildings were erected on vacant land after demolition of the existing building, an office building and warehouses. Besides the 2 towers the assignment, likewise, consisted of the construction of all technical areas, among which, a new water purification system.
Malt is prepared through a natural process, namely, soaking, germination and drying of barley grains. Construction phase 3 doubled the average capacity of 100.000 tons per year to 200.000 tons per year.
Both towers were provided with a concrete basement construction for the storage of dirty and purified water. Taking building physics and economics into consideration, led to the choice of a steel loadbearing structure, clad with sandwich panels and consisting of solid-core rock. The 2 towers from phase 1 and 2 were repeatedly erected in a concrete structure. The germination and drying halls have a diameter of 32 metres and a height of 8 metres, and on the inside they are clad entirely in stainless steel (inox).
The metal content in this project amounts in total to approximately 1.721 tons, of which approximately 45 tons of inox.


