Suteki Europe Receives Order for the Largest Timber Structure Care Home in Belgium
Suteki Europe NV (Brussels), the local subsidiary of Nice Holdings, Inc (Yokohama), has received an order for a large-scale care home from Léaucourt Création sprl. This company started material procurement and construction from mid August. The structure of the building is Suteki Wood System, an original construction method developed by Nice Holdings combining timber post and beam structure and metal fittings.
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The project is located in Tournai, around 90 km from the capital of Brussels. It will be the largest care home build in Belgium with the principles of passive housing. The total surface is approximately 11,000 m2 floor space with four stories, comprising a 50-room care facility that can house up to 100 senior citizens in twin rooms, and 16 ordinary 2-3 room apartments with a living, dining and kitchen area. Suteki Europe provides 7,000 m2 of Suteki Wooden Sytsem.
Europe has strict energy conservation standards for buildings. In order to promote environmentally-friendly Japanese-style timber post and beam construction methods in Europe, Nice Holdings is exhibiting at housing-related trade fairs in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and other countries throughout the world. In addition, the Group is deploying its original timber framework construction method, the Suteki Wood System, through its subsidiary, Suteki Europe NV.
Discussions on the current large-scale combined care home project kicked off when clients Francois Marlier and Jean-Louis Marlier visited the Suteki booth at Batibouw, an international residential housing trade fair held in Belgium in February 2012. Their late father Marcel Marlier was the author of the internationally popular children book Martine (known as Emmy in English and Tiny in Dutch). They had a vision of using their assets to contribute to social welfare. Appreciating the gentleness of the natural building materials used, as well as the freedom of design, compatibility with high insulation building, structural strength, construction accuracy, and ease of execution offered by traditional Japanese construction, they decided to employ the Suteki Wood System.
The Marlier brothers established the construction company Léaucourt Création sprl. to manage overall planning, and conduct building and landscape design, construction, and supervision of the project. Suteki Europe is responsible for creating structural calculations conform to Belgian construction regulations, for pre-cut structural plans (CAD diagrams) based on blueprints, in addition to procurement of timber, pre-cut machining, and leading the construction. In this way, Suteki Europe contributes to the realization of a large-scale timber building in Belgium.
PROJECT OVERVIEW: Care home and apartments
Location: Tournai, Belgium
Project owner: Léaucourt Création sprl
Executing company: Léaucourt Création sprl
Architect: Atelier 2F
Total floor area: 7,000 m2 (4 storey timber building, no. of rooms: 50 nursing apartments, 16 standard apartments)
Start of construction: Feb. 1, 2014
Completion date: Early December 2016
Total project cost: 15 million euros
Suteki Wood System
SIMPLE:
Suteki Wood System follows the “simple is best” principle. A structure of 130 sqm and 2 stories high can be mounted up in 3 days. The easy and logic post and beam building system without bolts and nuts allows the structure to be mounted up this fast. Fixing the metal joints by drift pins rather than nuts and bolts reduces the loosening of the joints that can become a problem over time, and maintains a high shearing force due to the small partial loss of the joint area.
STRONG:
Suteki Wood System has been tested and certified by Japanese Industrial Standard JIS and European standards (ETA-14/0216 and CE). Thorough stress calculations and three-dimensional analysis per project are carried out by experienced and licensed engineers.
SUSTAINABLE:
The wood comes from certified PEFC forests located in Europe. Trees take in CO2 and give us oxygen. One cubic meter of wood stores 1 ton of CO2. Plant trees, plant your house.
For more inquiries, please contact:
Suteki Europe N.V.
Pegasuslaan 5
1831 Diegem Belgium
T: +32 (0)2 709 22 75