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"Interns build demo installation for the on-going training of internal employees and customers"

"Big enough to cope, small enough to care"

Callens & EMK is one of Belgium's biggest engineering, installation and service companies in the heating and air-conditioning sector. We design, sell, lease, install and maintain steam and thermal oil boilers, industrial piping and heating systems as well as installations with air-conditioning, energy recovery systems and CHPs.
Earlier this year two students successfully completed a full internship and graduation project at Callens & EMK based around the construction of a demo steam installation. The implementation of this project once again shows our core values in action - encapsulated in our company slogan: "Big enough to cope, small enough to care". We are strong enough and big enough to be able to pull off challenging projects, but, at the same time, small enough to focus on the people behind the installations.

With nearly 150 enthusiastic employees and more than 7,500 customers from a wide variety of different sectors, we have an annual turnover of around 25 million euros.

"Demo steam installation as an internship and graduation project"

Simon Vandemoortele and Jelle Feys, both of whom were students in their final year of the bachelor degree course in Electromechanics (branch: air-conditioning) at the VHTI institute of higher technical education in Kortrijk, applied to do their internship and graduation project with us at Callens & EMK in September 2010.

The assignment consisted of building a complete demo steam installation for the on-going, professional training of our technical personnel and industrial customers and involved making a comprehensive preliminary study and the subsequent coordination and construction of the installation. In addition to building the steam boiler with its various additional components, the demo installations also included 2 different burners with 2 separate controls.

Mock-ups of this kind allow our employees and customers to evaluate the design of the installation concerned and the various specifications of the controls, and to practice programming it as well as looking for malfunctions and diagnosing problems.

"Training and development"

This graduation project was chosen by both the higher education institute and the members of the adjudicating panel as the best graduation project for the academic year 2010-2011 in Electromechanics, (branch: air-conditioning). We at Callens & EMK are very proud of this achievement and hope that, in the future, other students will be encouraged to do their graduation projects with us as part of the training and development program we offer to our technical staff and customers.

We would also like to thank Simon and Jelle for their flexible attitude, enthusiasm and the active contribution they made in bringing such a complex project to a successful conclusion. We are firmly convinced that this sort of project is a very valuable learning experience for all concerned.

If you would like more information about this project, please contact either the technical or the sales department at Callens & EMK.

 

"Interns build demo installation for the on-going training of internal employees and customers"

"Big enough to cope, small enough to care"

Callens & EMK is one of Belgium's biggest engineering, installation and service companies in the heating and air-conditioning sector. We design, sell, lease, install and maintain steam and thermal oil boilers, industrial piping and heating systems as well as installations with air-conditioning, energy recovery systems and CHPs.
Earlier this year two students successfully completed a full internship and graduation project at Callens & EMK based around the construction of a demo steam installation. The implementation of this project once again shows our core values in action - encapsulated in our company slogan: "Big enough to cope, small enough to care". We are strong enough and big enough to be able to pull off challenging projects, but, at the same time, small enough to focus on the people behind the installations.

With nearly 150 enthusiastic employees and more than 7,500 customers from a wide variety of different sectors, we have an annual turnover of around 25 million euros.

"Demo steam installation as an internship and graduation project"

Simon Vandemoortele and Jelle Feys, both of whom were students in their final year of the bachelor degree course in Electromechanics (branch: air-conditioning) at the VHTI institute of higher technical education in Kortrijk, applied to do their internship and graduation project with us at Callens & EMK in September 2010.

The assignment consisted of building a complete demo steam installation for the on-going, professional training of our technical personnel and industrial customers and involved making a comprehensive preliminary study and the subsequent coordination and construction of the installation. In addition to building the steam boiler with its various additional components, the demo installations also included 2 different burners with 2 separate controls.

Mock-ups of this kind allow our employees and customers to evaluate the design of the installation concerned and the various specifications of the controls, and to practice programming it as well as looking for malfunctions and diagnosing problems.

"Training and development"

This graduation project was chosen by both the higher education institute and the members of the adjudicating panel as the best graduation project for the academic year 2010-2011 in Electromechanics, (branch: air-conditioning). We at Callens & EMK are very proud of this achievement and hope that, in the future, other students will be encouraged to do their graduation projects with us as part of the training and development program we offer to our technical staff and customers.

We would also like to thank Simon and Jelle for their flexible attitude, enthusiasm and the active contribution they made in bringing such a complex project to a successful conclusion. We are firmly convinced that this sort of project is a very valuable learning experience for all concerned.

If you would like more information about this project, please contact either the technical or the sales department at Callens & EMK.

 

The IPB Challenge 2010 is an architectural competition that aims to give innovative, trend-setting and sustainable industrial or logistical buildings the recognition they deserve. This year's prize was awarded at the easyFairs Industrie & Projectbouw trade fair in Antwerp on 24 November 2010.

A key consideration in the design was the site's proximity to the E17. On the one hand the motorway suggests concepts such as movement, speed and noise, but it also forces us to reflect on how to make use of the power of image-building power that a new building bestows on the company that owns it. It was a genuine challenge to combine a building, which is essentially a static element, with the movement of the traffic speeding past it on the E 17. How can a building participate in that movement? What is the relationship of a building with respect to the noise that the traffic produces? What is its position with regard to the scale of the location? How anonymous are the user and the passing motorist with regard to each other? As a user of the building, are you taking part in the rat race on the motorway or must you ignore it? This building adopts an attitude of protection, enclosure and privacy.

When required, the stainless steel skin of the building opens its ‘gills' to give its users oxygen.

In this way the appearance of the building, as seen from the motorway, is continuously changing as you drive past it.
The building is a prime example of sustainable architecture. A symbiosis of technology and architecture create optimal comfort in terms of light, temperature, acoustics and multi-functionality.
The footprint of both the industrial halls and the office area is reduced to an absolute minimum by an optimization of the production and function organogram. This has meant that the constructed floor space is at least 20% less than was originally envisaged.