Denis Mélotte

Engineer Architect

Function:

Engineer architect.
Technical director.

Member of the Ordre des Architectes of:

Belgium (Brussels and Walloon Brabant).

Responsibility:

Director of technical development, specifications and quantity surveying for every project.
Head of administrative computer management.
Responsible for “value engineering” processes.
Reponsible for the certifications ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and Valideo.

Career Profile:

Involved in the technical development and construction of every project commissioned to the firm since 1985.
Responsible for projects such as the new research facilities of Petrofina in Feluy, ULB Auditorium, Walloon Branch of Reproduction Forestry Material, Nissan Research Centre, the Certech, Brussels Fair Grounds, the office extension of the Lamot Brewery for Seghers Engineering, the refurbishing of the (former INR) Flagey building, the factory for Solvay – Sibur (RusVinyl) in Nizhny Novgorod (Russia), and the Lujiazhi cultural creativity garden in Zhoushan (China).
His experience in hospital projects includes the Restructuration of the Brugmann Hospital and of the Queen Fabiola Children’s Hospital, in construction since 1994, the master plan for the extension and refurbishment of the ZNA general hospital on the Middelheim campus, and the psychiatrical hospital Sans Souci in Brussels.
Partner from 1991 to 2020.

Academic functions:

Teaching at Solvay Business School,
Executive Programme in Real Estate,
Module « Architectural design and technical notions ».

Education:

Civil Engineer in Architecture – UCL University of Louvain, 1982.
Postgraduate in Management (CEPAC) – ULB University of Brussels, 1988.
Internal Audit, Forem Formation Mons, 2007.

Languages:

French, Dutch, English, (German).

Experience:

36 years.

Place and date of birth:

Waimes (Belgium) – July, 22nd 1958.

Major projects as team leader:

Research Facilities of Petrofina in Feluy
Client: Fina Research (Total Petrochemicals Research)
Type of project: Petrochemical Research Centre
Location: Feluy (Belgium)
Cost of the works: 24,000,000 €
Area: 30,000 sqm, completed

Walloon Branch of Reproduction Forestry Material
Client: Walloon Region
Type of project: Forestry Research Centre
Location: Marche-en-Famenne (Belgium)
Cost of the works: 1,363,000 €
Area: 1,144 sqm, completed

Nissan Research Centre
Client: Nissan European Technical Centre (Brussels)
Type of project: Automotive Research Centre
Location: Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
Cost of the works: 12,151,000 €
Area: 13,000 sqm, completed

Brugmann Hospital *
Client: CHU Brugmann
Type of project: General Hospital
Location: Brussels (Belgium)
Cost of the works: 116,524,000 €
Area: 93,985 sqm, under construction

Chemical Technological Resources Centre – CERTECH
Client: Université Catholique de Louvain
Type of project: Chemical Research Centre
Location: Seneffe (Belgium)
Cost of the works: 1,480,000 €
Area: 2,335 sqm, completed

Brussels Fair Grounds
Client: Brussels Expo
Type of project: Welcoming and Logistics Infrastructure
Location: Brussels (Belgium)
Cost of the works: 23,650,000 €
Area: 52,383 sqm, completed

Refurbishing of the Flagey building
Client: Flagey s.a.
Type of project: Performance halls, heritage building
Location: Brussels (Belgium)
Cost of the works: 28,136,000 €
Area: 23,930 sqm, completed

PVC factory for RusVinyl
Client: RusVinyl LLC (JV of Solvay-Sibur)
Type of project: Office and Maintenance Buildings for a Chemical Factory
Location: Nizhniy Novgorod (Russia)
Cost of the works: 24,000,000 €
Area: 24,000 sqm, completed

Middelheim Hospital
Client: Ziekenhuis Netwerk Antwerpen
Type of project: New Medical-Technical Block
Location: Antwerp (Belgium)
Cost of the works: 33,494,000 €
Area: 15,950 sqm, current

Restructuration of the psychiatric hospital SANS SOUCI, Phase 3
Client: Clinique Sans Souci asbl
Type of project: psychiatric hospital
Location: Brussels (Belgium)
Cost of the works: 13,900,000 €
Area: 5,524 sqm, under construction

* In collaboration

Document n° E21-05-11_GB
Issue of 2020-07-16

000-Denis MelotteDEBBA