Case Study: ASK ROMEIN completes the AFAS Stadium roof with IDEA StatiCa

ASK ROMEIN completes AFAS Stadium roof in 1 year with IDEA StatiCa

ASK ROMEIN, a construction company, faced the challenge of designing and constructing a highly complex new roof for the AFAS Stadium in Alkmaar after the original partially collapsed. The project's centerpiece was a massive 600-ton megatruss that needed its own support structure and had to accommodate significant movement, all under a very tight deadline. They used IDEA StatiCa for detailed connection design calculations.

IDEA StatiCa provided a solution by enabling direct export of forces from SCIA Engineer for efficient recalculation as the design evolved. This was crucial for designing creative sliding connections that could move up to 250 millimeters in two directions. As a result, ASK ROMEIN successfully engineered and assembled the 2,500-ton steel roof within one year, which now offers weather protection for nearly 2,500 additional spectators.

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