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Botanical garden for the palace gardens in
Ankara
Some time ago we built a summer residence in Istanbul
for the Turkish President Gül. We have now completed
a similar project in Ankara: a two-storey building with an
area of 1,000 square metres comprising a greenhouse
for growing the presidential household’s organic vegetables, offices and a storage area for machines.
Foreword
Second phase of Bents under
construction
This edition of our Up to Date pays
plenty of attention to projects of
satisfied customers: the Smeets
brothers of the Maastricht branch of
the Dutch Intratuin chain of garden
centres and Alain van Vliet of VV
Plantes.
Satisfied customers are our best
ambassadors: they give objective
assessments of their cooperation
with Thermoflor.
Bents Garden Centre
is a household name
in the surroundings of
Manchester.
The
family
company
combines a garden centre
with large-scale catering
facilities: its Food Hall
attracts thousands of
visitors a day. Last year
They are also able to explain how
Thermoflor makes a difference:
‘within the budget, fast, short
communication lines with the project
leaders, close involvement and
always sticking to the agreements
made’. That’s what we want to be:
a building partner that thinks along
with you and realises your project
from A to Z, a partner you can trust
100%.
“The Minister would appreciate it if
the Dutch builders Thermoflor could
also attend the visit to the botanical
garden.” Customer satisfaction can
have great consequences ...
Gertjan Grimbergen
NEWSLETTER OF THERMOFLOR - NR.16 - SPRING 2014
A tea garden adds an attractive finishing touch to the
high-class building in which the presidential couple can
now receive their guests in style. Other government organisations and wealthy private persons are also very
interested in this concept.
Ambassadors
At the time this edition of Up to
Date went to press we had an
unexpected telephone call from the
Dutch Embassy in Turkey. In June
the Dutch Minister for Trade and
Development Cooperation will be
visiting Turkey. Part of the visit will
take place in the botanical garden
that we built in Turkey.
DIVISION OF grimbergen RELIABLE BUILDERS SINCE 1877
we built a new area for
the transhipment of plants
here.
Phase II involves the
construction of a visually
attractive retail area with
an office, which will have a
total area of 3,500 square
metres and will be based
on sustainable principles.
Paul and Mark Smeets:
“We are terribly proud of our new
shop, which has been built within
the budget. As the project’s main
contractor, Thermoflor has done a
wonderful job, from the very first
post right through to the building’s
completion.”
Flexible glass?
Yes indeed! We are using cold-curved triple glazing to
create a unique glass structure for the atrium of the new
sustainable head office of the engineering company
Fluor in the Dutch town of Hoofddorp. The structure is
based on our successful Thermoflor Excellent profile
system, offering solutions for a wide range of glass
structures in utility construction.
The glass plates measuring 180 by 300 cm have been
slightly curved for the atrium (see the facing page). The
30-metre roof with sun screens has been installed at a
height of 20 metres.
We built the eye-catching
glass atrium with a curtain
wall connecting the old
and new buildings. The
curtain wall is made of triple glazing.
The roof consists of a coated steel and aluminium
structure with insulating
glass that can be walked
on incidentally.
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jewel of the south of the Netherlands
Last March the brand-new branch of the Intratuin chain of
garden centres in Maastricht opened its doors to the public.
An impressive modern building in which Intratuin offers its
customers an exciting experience in an attractive ambiance.
The owners Paul and Mark Smeets
had for some time been looking for a
suitable location to expand their activities. The municipal authorities of
Maastricht eventually granted them
the go-ahead to start building at a site
close to their former establishment, after which we built their state-of-the-art
garden centre in a turnkey project.
Zeist in a new light
Expansion of the town
hall in Zeist (NL): the main
contractor Volker Wessels
has erected a modern
new structure next to the
existing historical building.
Intratuin Maastricht:
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Mezzanine
A striking sight on entering the garden
centre is the large open area containing a mezzanine floor that can be
reached via a double moving walkway.
The mezzanine floor accommodates a
garden café that can seat 185 visitors,
a covered roof patio and large homefurnishing departments.
Flexible routing
A special feature of this establishment
is the flexible routing that guides shoppers to the various departments in a relaxed manner. They can take the long
route via the unheated greenhouse,
head straight for the garden café or
just pop into the pet department for
a new supply of dog food. It’s all possible with this concept, which makes
this shop extra customer-friendly.
Sustainable
LED lighting, insulating materials and
facilities for collecting water give this
Intratuin branch a sustainable character, expressing the Smeets brothers’
corporate social responsibility.
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What else have we built the
past six months:
Intratuin Amersfoort (NL)
700 m2 Warehouse
B.Bembom (NL)
700 m2 Feeding places for horse breeders
Tuincentrum Boers (NL)
2000 m2 Extension of the unheated greenhouse
Next (UK)
150 m2 Home & Garden shop
Turnkey is the future!
Ever more entrepreneurs are opting for turnkey construction. And not
without reason, because erecting
a new building is a complex process involving many different factors. Thermoflor has many years’
experience in successfully realising
turnkey projects. From practical experience we know that such projects
offer principals major advantages.
Building a new garden centre calls
for a lot of time and attention on the
part of entrepreneurs. Their existing establishments almost always
remain open for business during the
building work. Giving up full control
of the entire process means that
the entrepreneurs can continue to
spend all the time they need on their
own business.
J.Karlson (N)
3200 m2 Greenhouse for the cultivation of tulips
A wholesale centre with a
retail atmosphere for a ‘Dutch’ Frenchman
Alain van Vliet is a French entrepreneur with roots in the Dutch
Westland horticultural region. He commissioned the construction
of a remarkable cash & carry organisation combined with
propagation areas in the town of Hyères in the south of France.
VV Plantes is a unique concept by French standards: a
wholesale centre with the appearance of an attractive
garden centre. Its main target groups are small garden
centres, professional gardeners and regional florists.
They are offered a wide range of products, from
Mediterranean houseplants and garden plants to
decoration materials. Some of the houseplants come from
the Netherlands, others are grown in VV Plantes’ own
nursery.
Focus on experience
Alain van Vliet also looked to the Pays-Bas for his new
wholesale centre. We were asked to create a building with
a much stronger focus on experience than you usually find
in wholesale centres. This makes VV Plantes a centre with
a real retail atmosphere: stylish and tasteful. Behind the
impressive front wall comprising coated curved trusses
the building has an area of no less than 7,300 m².
“Thermoflor has created a
beautiful building that will
meet VV Plantes’ requirements for many years“
And what are we going to
build the next six months:
Intratuin Breda (NL)
Refurbishment of the front wall
Tuincentrum de Boet (NL) 1500 m2 Refurbishment of the entrance and front wall
Multifunctional layout
The building, based on a design created by Thermoflor,
has a multifunctional layout. The entrance gives way to
the cash-and-carry for the customers, which comprises
three separate departments: a heated greenhouse, an
unheated greenhouse and an outdoor area with shade
screens. The 12.80-metre wide-span greenhouse has
sandwich panels.
Famifarm (FL) 2500 m2 Greenhouse for the cultivation of herbs
PT Creations (NL) 2650 m2 Processing area
Intratuin Enschede (NL)
7500 m2 Renovation of the (un)heated greenhouses
Extra attention was paid to the climate conditions along the
coast in the south of France. Air-conditioning installations
on the roof guarantee a pleasant indoor climate, and the
propagation areas are specially equipped for intermittent
irrigation.
Villa Verde, Tollevast (F) 3200 m2 Garden centre
Behind the cash-and-carry is a logistic area intended for
processing large orders.
Coppelmans Oss (NL)
5200 m2 Garden Centre
We were responsible for designing and building the
new structure, and also for its climate control and water
technology, which were efficiently incorporated in the
design.
Plantagen, Skedsmo (N) 450 m2 Roofing of the outdoor retail area
Marga van Vliet and her son Alain van Vliet, who now runs
VV Plantes.
Forest Lodge Farnham (UK)
380 m2 Extension of the restaurant
Another advantage is that they have
a single contact for all their questions. With a turnkey project, the
various risks involved in construction are moreover no longer spread
out over several parties.
As the main contractor, Thermflor
reminds subcontractors of their obligations. This also makes turnkey
construction very appealing. We
take full responsibility for all the
work, from the civil engineering right
through to the finishing touches to
the interior decoration.