Date: 10-2025
In France, a fabrication plant is planning to install new cooling beds. The cooling beds will be installed in an area where a similar facility already existed. Part of the new facility will be located and supported by existing walls and slabs to reduce project costs.
Ingenova has developed the civil engineering for the new hot-loading facility at the plant, including the demolition of an existing side wall and floor, excavation to the basement level (-3.40), and the design of the necessary foundations and pits. Consequently, demolition and foundation plans, reinforcement exploded views (sheets), materials lists, civil engineering specifications, and supporting calculations have been generated. In addition, the civil works for the cooling bed foundations have been supervised on-site.
The plant has a pit (bottom at -2.40) shallower than the future facility (TOC of the new slab at -3.40) and also smaller than the space required for the new cooling beds. Subsequently, most of the existing pit will be demolished, and a new concrete slab will be built to support the new cooling beds, along with a concrete wall on one side to enclose the new pit. A new small slab will also be built with TOC at -1.00 and a small wall from -3.40 to -1.00 to support the lower supports for the new billet elevator. The existing walls and galleries will be preserved on the other sides of the new pit.
