Smart design
New construction in a tight city location, modernizing and preserving a monument, keeping a building operational during a renovation, extreme safety requirements such as earthquakes, explosion loads or crowd safety. Our projects usually do not involve a standard jobs. Our technical heart beats faster and we can use our brainpower in cases of a complex ambition, divergent and sometimes even conflicting conditions.

Smart, results-oriented design. That is what we are good at. We explore how seemingly incompatible desires and requirements can lead to a clear, basic design principle. Translating complexity into a simple path, without concessions. We constantly ask ourselves: what could be better, what could be smarter? What is best for the project?
Development gain
When we manage to incorporate the structural design into the architectural design in a clever and integral way, we have created ‘development gains’. We are convinced that there are always development gains to be made; in time, energy, materials and/or costs. Regardless of new construction or renovation jobs, the win starts at the base, with the design.
Smart Together principle
We therefore work according to the “Smart Together Principle. Early in the process we will partner with specialists from all disciplines: building physicists, façade specialists and structural engineers. Innovations arise precisely at the interfaces. Moreover, we take a strong analytical approach. We use smart, pragmatic analyses and special calculation software to guide and optimize the design from an early stage. From our craftsmanship, in-depth technical knowledge and smart technology, we add value during the idea phase, design phase and the prototyping phase.

Paris-proof headquarters dsm-firmenich
We achieved development gains in the design of dsm-firmenichs new, Paris-proof headquarters. The desire was to create new office layers on top of the existing underground parking garage and integrate the existing national monument. We managed to bend the steel structure so that it will stand directly on the concrete columns of the substructure. This success was achieved by close cooperation between our structural and geotechnical specialists and calculations with special software.
National Military Museum
For the National Military Museum, the challenge was to design the lightest possible roof that could support dozens of heavy objects such as fighter jets. To get to grips with this challenging task we needed smart digitization. We succeeded with our in-house developed parametric design tools. The result: 40% less material consumption. A lightweight, durable and economical solution for the museum.
Why not challenge us with your impossible task and contact one of our specialists.
Image: © Marcel van de Burgh
Projects
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DOMunder
DOMunder

dsm-firmenich headquarters redevelopment
dsm-firmenich headquarters redevelopment

EYE Film Institute
EYE Film Institute

Forum Groningen
Forum Groningen

Jakoba Mulderhuis
Jakoba Mulderhuis

Montevideo
Montevideo

Nationaal Militair Museum
Nationaal Militair Museum

Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Naturalis Biodiversity Center

NewCold cold storage facility
NewCold cold storage facility

Rabobank Utrecht
Rabobank Utrecht

Renovation of the Binnenhof
Renovation of the Binnenhof

Sportcampus Zuiderpark
Sportcampus Zuiderpark

Renewal of the Climate Greenhouse at the Hortus Botanicus
Renewal of the Climate Greenhouse at the Hortus Botanicus
Our specialists
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Antony van Middelkoop
Civil engineer

Arie-Jan van Renswoude
Geotechnical engineering specialist

Aris Baan
Fire safety consultant

Berend Saalmink
Project manager structural design

Diana de Krom
Circular constructions project manager

Daniël Koster
Junior specialist building physics

Eric Brok
Structural engineering manager

Erwin ten Brincke
Structural designer

Gertjan Peters
Façades & glass consultant

Han Krijgsman
Senior advisor

Jesper Goorden
Design leader

Joost Salemink
Construction engineering consultant

Kars Haarhuis
Structural Engineering Manager

Kanter Eefting
Fire safety specialist

Marco van der Ploeg
Consultant

Mark Verbaten
Senior civil engineering specialist

Rowan van Wely
Senior advisor

Ronald Wenting
Lead structural engineering consultant

Willem Klaverveld
Construction Advisor