| 14/12/2009 | Bureau Greisch carries out the implementation studies of the glass windows of the Fondation LOUIS VUITTON pour la création in Paris (FR). |
 | Drawn by the architect Frank Gehry, the building is covered with twelve glass windows evoking a deployed aerofoil. The purpose of this foundation created by Louis Vuitton, principal actor of the French patronage, is to promote the contemporary art. |
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| 01/12/2009 | Greisch Bureau collaborates in the estimate of the means of assembly and the development of the technical documents necessary to the launching of the invitation to tender for the metal frame of two principal bridges on the road link and railway between the west coast of Qatar and the East coast of Bahrain. |
 | These exceptional bridges span two shipping routes in the Persian Gulf. The first includes a deck of 506 m length and 44,6 m broad and the second, a deck of 431 meters length. Their total steel-weight comes to 40000 tons.
The project Qatar Bahrain Causeway (QBC), aiming to realize a 40 km long connection (of which 22 km of bridges) is carried by Vinci, member of the award-winning group of the Design and Build contest. |
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| 01/12/2009 | The works for the deviding into two of the railway viaduct of Pulvermuehle in Luxembourg (LU) will start. |
 | Bureau Greisch realizes, for the group Bageci - CLE - Galere - Aelterman, the studies of the new viaduct, which will be built by pushing method. It will also take care of the studies of the design and the dimensioning of the assembly elements. |
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| 13/11/2009 | The new campus of the Artevelde high-school in Gent (BE) was inaugurated on October 28th. |
 | Four years only were necessary since the project promoter nomination, the consortium Crepain Binst Architecture - bureau greisch - RCR, to design and carry out this campus. Being able to accommodate more than 1500 students, it understands five large auditoriums, classrooms and practice rooms, a media library, a restaurant, offices, a car park for 230 cars and a bicycle park.
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| 06/11/2009 | Bureau Greisch will ensure the studies of stability of the New Chirec (regional Hospital Edith Cavel), which will be set up on the Delta site in Auderghem-Brussels (BE). |
| | The Executive Board of the Chirec assigned officially the temporary company Delta 2017 (association of Assar, Greisch and SM Ingénium-SNC-Lavalin) as constructor of the new hospital. This new center will include, among others, five hundred conventional hospital beds, medical day-activities, medico-technical activities, about a hundred consulting cabinets and rooms for support services.
The works of this building, in conformity with the current directives concerning sustainable constructions, should be finished in 2017 such as indicates the name of the temporary company. |
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| 22/10/2009 | Bureau Greisch celebrated last Thursday, October the 15th, its fifty years old existence. |
 | A festive moment on which the many guests have had the opportunity to recall the accomplished work ever since the establishment of the office in 1959. It was also an opportunity to see the many projects which ensure the future of a team of 150 persons, still faithful to the principles of René Greisch : the rigour, the search for the "best" and the collegial structure.
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| 09/10/2009 | During the inaugural session of the Class "Technology and Society", October the 3rd, Jean-Marie Crémer received the title of member of the royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Belgium. |
 | The Class "Technology and Society", set up during the general meeting of the Academy on May the 29th, was created for a general policy of evaluation of the technological innovations, their social, economic, environmental and cultural incidences as well as their ethical implications on the society.
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| 09/10/2009 | The building of the EIB (European Investment Bank) in Luxembourg (LU), winner of the "Steel construction contest 2009" in the category "non residential buildings with steel or composite structure". |
 | This award was given by Infosteel, the organiser of the contest, on October the 2nd, during steel construction day 2009.
Bureau Greisch ensured the studies of execution of this exceptional building (see news 2008/05/06).
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| 06/10/2009 | Inauguration on August the 31st, 2009 - in the presence of Philippe Henry, Minister of the Walloon Government in charge of town and country planning, mobility and environment - of the bus depot and the connection station of the TEC at Menuchenet, near to Bouillon (BE). |
 | Realised in partnership with the architectural office greisch (bag), the project includes the depot with a park zone for busses, service areas, a car park for the personnel of the TEC and the station with a “kiss&ride-zone”, a public car park and shelters for travellers and two-wheeled vehicles. The diversion of a RAVeL route, the treatment and the rejection of water, the lighting and the monitoring by cameras, the plantations... form also part of the project.
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| 29/09/2009 | Inauguration of the high speed station Liège-Guillemins (BE) on September the 18th, opportunity to recognise ten years of implication of Bureau Greisch in the project. |
 | From 1999 to 2009, about thirty people took turns to add up not less than 85,000 working hours. They ensured the studies of stability, the general coordination of works and brought a technical assistance to the direction of the operations during the comlete duration of the extensive site.
> article CCILG magazine
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| 25/08/2009 | The deck of a bridge crossing the Lys at Courtrai (BE), designed by Bureau Greisch, is installed on its final supports. |
 | The metal bridge, with its 90 meters length and 425 tons weight, was assembled in the workshop and was brought on barge from Ghent. The operation started at 7 o'clock in the morning on Sunday, August the 23rd and finished the same day abount 16:30. |
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| 15/07/2009 | Alain Goujon has been commissioned Advisor. |
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Civil-Mechanical engineer, Alain Goujon-Dubois joined Bureau Greisch in 2007, after a career of more than 30 years in industry. During this one, he took up the various duties which the management of a company requires : administrative, financial, technical and commercial management, human resources and quality.
With a welt of experience behind one, he is charged, within Bureau Greisch, to bring support to the persons in charge of the business files in order to improve the follow-up and management of the projects, whose complexity appreciably increased during last years.
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| 14/07/2009 | 3 new directors have been appointed during the General Assemblies of june 9th-12th, 2009. |
| | Jean-Yves Del Forno, Vincent Servais and Luc Demortier have been appointed directors of Greisch ingénierie and Bureau d'études Greisch.
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| 13/07/2009 | Opening on June 23rd, 2009 and official inauguration on July 9th, 2009 of the Route des Tamarins on Reunion Island (FR) |
 | The bureau Greisch played part in two exceptional bridges; the first one, over the Ravine Fontaine, as designer and product manager/prime contractor since 2001 (see news of 2009/04/14) and the second one, over the Grande Ravine, as executive engineering office since 2005 (see news 2008/02/18).
> Link to news report local television RTC
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| 03/07/2009 | Change of managing director in charge of the Bureau d'études Greisch and Greisch Ingénierie |
 | Clément Counasse, already managing director of Bgroup Greisch, was appointed this July 1st, 2009 managing director of Bureau d'études Greisch and Greisch Ingénierie.
Jean-Marie Crémer remains managing director of Greisch coordination & études. |
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| 30/06/2009 | The bureau Greisch acts as technical expert for the reinforcement of motorway bridges in the Netherlands. |
 | End of may, Rijkswaterstaat (Ministry of public works) has charged the consortium Royal Haskoning, Arup and Greisch with the mission of Managing contractor for the renovation of eight steel bridges subjected to fatigue problems. The mission covers the engineering and the global management of the project, including inspection of the bridges, calculation, design, preparing contract documents and supervising the execution of the works.
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| 19/06/2009 | Study of stability for a Corten steel extension of a house located at Versailles (FR). |
 | Bureau Greisch put its competences at the service of the Parisian workshop LLB Structures for the realization of this nonconventional volume. The four frontages and the flat roof were manufactured in Liège by the workshops Melens & Dejardin and assembled on site. |
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| 05/06/2009 | The request for town planning permission for the Oosterweel connection in Antwerp (BE) was brought in. |
 | At this occasion the different parties, among which bureau Greisch that carries out the studies for both project and execution, held a press conference on 26 May 2009. They explained the project - specifying the architectural and urban development measures - as well as the effort made to reduce as much as possible any pollution (noise, dust, ...).
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| 02/06/2009 | May 27th, 2009 : Bgroup Infra changed its company name to Bgroup Greisch. |
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| 11/05/2009 | The works for the new building of the french speaking belgian radio television (RTBF) in Liège started on April the 20th. |
 | The mission of bureau greisch includes the studies and the follow up of stability and special techniques as well as the security coordination in the implementing fase. The architectural part is provided by the temporary company Archi2000, Syntaxe and the architecture office Greisch (bag). |
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| 05/05/2009 | February the 16th, 2009 : René Maquoi, which since more than 30 years maintains close connections with bureau Greisch, received the insignia of doctor honoris causa of the polytechnic university of Lisbon (PT). |
 | René Maquoi, Professor emeritus of the university of Liege (BE) at the department Argenco, is one of the most distinguished researchers in the field of the steel constructions in civil engineering. He obtained many awards by the world scientific community.
All our congratulations to our friend Rene Maquoi! |
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| 30/04/2009 | The contract for the construction of the new tower of Finances in Liege (BE) has been assigned. |
 | After the realization of the studies of the project, bureau greisch will ensure the complete mission of stability of this tower of twenty-six floors. Architects: M. & J-M. Jaspers - J. Eyers & Partners and the architecture office Greisch (bag). |
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| 27/04/2009 | Monday, April the 20th, inauguration of the site of Biowanze at Wanze (BE). |
 | Bureau greisch ensured the missions of stability and special techniques for the offices and laboratories designed by the architecture office Greisch (bag). |
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| 24/04/2009 | Bureau greisch received on April, the 20th, Mrs Marie-Dominique Simonet, Ministre of Research, New technologies and Foreign relations of the Walloon region. |
 | After a presentation of the office, the program of the visit continued with the examination of the multidisciplinary project of the lock of Lanaye and the studies as regards R&D. |
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| 22/04/2009 | Important phase in the realization of the railway viaduct over the Sado river (PT) on March, the 30th, the 31st and April, the 1st. |
 | The first 160 metres of the steel box girder, previously assembled on a temporary platform at the end of the abutment, have been pushed on temporary pilings. Two other thrusts of 160 m will follow (see news dated 2007/11/23). |
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| 14/04/2009 | Delivery, on march 31st, of the bridge Ravine Fontaine on the Reunion island (FR). |
 | This exceptional bridge, started at the end of 2006 on the route des Tamarins, crosses a gully of more than 120 m depth, without any support.
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| 10/04/2009 | Installation of the pontoon of the storage platform of Strépy-Thieu (BE). |
 | In order to allow the loading of the barges, this pontoon of 28 m length and 5 m broad presents an overhang of 4 m above the Canal du Centre. In addition to this work, Bureau Greisch ensures the study and the follow-up of the construction of the platform itself (6 700 m²) and of eleven storage boxes of a full capacity of 12,400 m³. |
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| 10/03/2009 | The bureau greisch receives the International Award 2009 |
 | This prize, awarded during the "BATIBOUW" fair on March 4, on occasion of the Belgian Building Awards, rewards the office for the whole of its works realised abroad. |
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| 09/03/2009 | Inauguration this friday March 6 of the Grand Curtius in Liège (BE), great complex of museums in which the bureau Greisch participated 14 years. |
 | Full mission for the study of the stability for the restoration of five monuments of the history of the architecture of Liège - the Curtius palace (1598 - 1607), the Curtius residence (end of the XVIth century), the hotel Brahy (1680), the house Dewilde (1680 - 1800) and the hotel Hayme de Bomal (1775 – 1778) - and for the construction of a modern wing and fully glassed galleries as link between the old buildings. |
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| 23/02/2009 | Full study from concept to execution of the steel structure of the new Lille arena (FR) |
 | The major elements of this steel structure are the two « mega-truss girders » of 205 m span on which mobile roofs will slide. All elements of those trusses will be assembled with pins to accelerate the assembly of the structure.
This mission is executed in order of the constructor Eiffel, subsidiary of Eiffage. |
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| 16/02/2009 | The republic of Ireland branch of the "Institution of Structural Engineers" awards to Vincent de Ville de Goyet, administrator of bureau greisch, a special prize for his paper "The Millau Viaduct, an Outstanding Structure". |
 | This award, granted by this Anglo-Saxon engineers association this year centennial, dedicates the excellence of the lecture presented to 150 engineers, on October 14, 2008
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| 23/01/2009 | René Boileau and René Troisfontaines are designated as advisors.
Laurent Delatte is designated as head of the cell MEP engineering. |
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| 15/01/2009 | Job vacancies |
| | We are looking for :
- engineers special techniques (Buildings)
- a drawer - civil engineering
For more information, see heading 'job' |
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| 01/01/2009 | Best wishes for 2009 from bureau Greisch |
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