Our areas of expertise are diverse. From foundation techniques to a soil bank that contributes to a healthy environment. From crane rental to pontoon rental, both domestically and internationally… With each expertise, you can rely on our 60 years of experience. And you can also count on the practical experiences we proudly showcase. Therefore, we proudly present practical experiences that speak for themselves. So, go ahead and click on an area of expertise that interests you, and see how we have assisted other clients. If you feel there’s more to know or if the information leaves you with questions, feel free to give us a call. In fact, we welcome it. Who knows, we might soon be collaborating on a project that’s more than worthy of being showcased on this site.
Projects
You can say so much…
But actions speak louder than words… That’s why we would like to show you what we are capable of. And, let’s not beat around the bush, that’s no small feat. We’re more than happy to showcase examples from each of our areas of expertise, giving you a glimpse into the projects we have taken on together with our clients.
Soil remediation in Teylers Hofje
It is one of the most romantic spots in Haarlem: the Teylers Hofje, located at the edge of the center, along the Spaarne. Currently there are still twenty such hofjes in Haarlem, once founded for the benefit of the poor or for beguines of the church.
Weighty job
Lifting, pushing, lifting, but mostly rolling. Using this combination of techniques, a heavy-duty concrete weighbridge was installed inside a building where waste containers must be weighed.
Pontoons among greenery
The organizers of the Floriade Expo – the world horticultural exhibition in Almere – have also experienced how important pontoons can be on the border of land and water. And also how Van Schie has an innovative solution for every location and situation, based on years of experience at large event venues.
Drilling with casing
More and more buildings are getting their energy from geothermal energy, as an alternative to wind and solar power. As a rule, this is water pumped from the depths of our earth. The heat in that water can then be used for heating or generating electricity. It is a sustainable heat source that does not rely on solar or wind. And always available.
Regal introduction
This spring, the latest generation of the Range Rover Sport was introduced: a beautifully lined hybrid bolide. The official presentation for the entire Benelux was done with allure, a happening that took place in Belgium at an estate near Grimbergen, just a stone’s throw from Brussels.
Bridge over the Zaan
Just above Zaandam is the Zaan Bridge that connects Wormer and Wormerveer. This striking blue drawbridge is in need of replacement. A complex operation, since the Zaan is quite wide here and busy shipping traffic should be affected as little as possible. Therefore, before the old bridge is demolished, a temporary drawbridge will be built. A unique construction by Janson Bridging BV, part of the Van Schie Group.
City crane rises from ashes
For centuries, a city crane stood on the Oudegracht near the Winkel van Sinkel. More precisely, from 1402 to 1837. This hoist – constructed entirely of wood – was used to unload goods from ships in the shipyard or hoist them up to the street. Cargo usually consisted of crates, man-sized wine barrels, Cologne pots and pottery.
Seepage screen in the forest
With seepage water one does not immediately think of leafy forests in Brabant, but rather of wet Dutch polders where the water seeps under dikes and bubbles up along the meadows. In Ulvenhout – near Breda – they really think differently.
‘Beautiful Marlene’
Rarely seen such an elegant windmill – sorry – wind turbine. So the producer named her after a famous beautiful lady: Marlene Dietrich.
‘Cutting and shaving’
In polder Rijnvliet near Utrecht, a number of high-voltage pylons were recently removed in order to build an underground (heavier) network on the same route. This transition was necessary to meet the increasing demand for energy. Van Schie was allowed to dismantle the steel structures, cut them into pieces and then dispose of them.
Luminous art in Ghent
Belgium’s Ghent – the city of art, culture and festivals – once again hosted its annual “Festival of Lights” last winter. It was the fifth edition of this highly regarded event.
Working on the Amstel
Van Schie has designed a pontoon specifically for infrastructure work on and near the water: the VSP770 pontoon. A unique modular system developed in-house. A pontoon with many possibilities and great buoyancy.
Protection for the Great Bear
Along the Grote Beer, a busy traffic artery in Veenendaal, Van Schie replaced an old wooden screen with a contemporary 2-meter-high sound barrier built on an earthen embankment.
The bridge over ‘t Twiske
This pontoon bridge is located on the outer edge of Amsterdam-North in the small river ‘t Twiske. This stream flows through the Kadoelen neighborhood, popularly called Capie’s Oort because of the many retired captains who used to live there.
Skating fun on the Minnewater
Against the romantic backdrop of the castle “della Faille,” Van Schie laid the foundation for much skating fun in Bruges, Belgium, for the third time in a row.
High-flyers in construction
High above the construction site, they do their work: the impressive tower cranes that move the heaviest loads vertically and horizontally with seeming ease and then lower them into the right place with extreme precision. Their silhouette can often be seen from a great distance above the city skyline.
Sheet pile pit
A proverb could not be more aptly portrayed: “Whoever wants to become a great crane operator must start at the bottom. In construction, this is often literal and figurative. Starting small, gaining lots of experience, then growing into an all-round craftsman.
Soil vacuum cleaner
Earth-moving equipment comes in all shapes and sizes: heavy excavators (radio-controlled or not), crawler cranes, midi-cranes, mini-excavators. Each one is a machine designed for excavating and backfilling soil, digging trenches, reshaping an industrial site or laying sewers.
Flooding A9 near Amstelveen
The A9, the freeway that splits the municipality of Amstelveen in two, is going through a complete overhaul. The road will be deepened and widened over a length of 1.6 kilometers in the coming years. There will be three canopies and the number of lanes on each roadway will go from 3 to 4.
Pull a sheet pile wall
A huge construction project is currently underway in Diemen-Zuid. It’s called: Holland Park Diemen. The section that is more or less completed is already being called “Amsterdam’s new ring of canals.
‘Powerlifting’
Lift, hold high for a moment, deadlift … and lower again. A clever feat of powerlifting, performed by four telecranes from Van Schie. It happened in Woerden, where the middle section of a heavy concrete bridge had to be briefly lifted to let a couple of houseboats through.
Floating solar park
A “floating solar meadow” consisting of 13,400 solar panels is being constructed in a small lake, on the Amer power plant site.
Off the gas
An innovative underground water buffer is being built in Nagele, storing heat in the summer that can be used again in the winter.
‘The Big House’
This is what mobile tower cranes are made for: high-rise buildings, limited set-up space and a job that requires a large flight.
‘The Big House’
This is what mobile tower cranes are made for: high-rise buildings, limited set-up space and a job that requires a large flight.
Travel refrigeration units
On the roofs of the large number of data centers around Amsterdam are many hundreds of cooling towers. They have to cool all the hard-working servers, which generate so much heat that they could not function without air conditioning.
“Cool little bridge”
“Cool little bridge,” was the comment from Feijenoord’s youth soccer players. The steel bridge – Van Schie’s own design – provides access to one of the Rotterdam soccer club’s practice fields.
Historic restoration in Zaltbommel
The city of Zaltbommel is surrounded by fortifications: a wide, tree-lined belt with wide canals that connect to the river Waal on the north side. One of those moats – the inner moat – was neglected, silted up and dried up for centuries, until there was no longer a moat at all.
‘The Bridge of Sighs’
Across the North Holland Canal are five so-called raft bridges. The youngest of the five, the Rekervlot Bridge, is regularly the child of the bill. It is the numerous technical failures and ship collisions that cause a lot of misery.
There at that mill
The quays along Amsterdam’s canals are in bad shape. There is a lot of overdue maintenance. A total of 200 kilometers (!) of quays, banks and bridges need to be renewed and restored. One of the most appealing locations is the wharf around the oldest sawmill in the world: mill “The Otter.
Bridge from the printer
In Amsterdam, in the heart of the red light district, there has recently been a bridge manufactured in one piece by a 3D printer. It is the world’s first 3D printed bridge made entirely of stainless steel.
Fully certified pontoon
The composition of this pontoon is unique. First, because the formation consists of 9 innovative VSP770 pontoons.
Floating artwork
Scattered throughout the medieval city center this summer, during the Triennial, thirteen objects were displayed by artists and architects. Piece by piece creations in which they search for “what lurks behind the facades of picturesque Bruges.
The construction of the Suurhoff Bridge
The Suurhoff Bridge is the gateway to the Maasvlakte and is an important link between Voorne-Putten and the Botlek, Europoort and Rotterdam. Significantly more and heavier traffic now crosses this bridge than was anticipated in the 1970s. The bridge is in poor condition and in need of restoration.
The salvage of a plane wreck
During World War II, on the night of June 22, 1941, an English bomber crashed in the meadows near Nieuwe Niedorp, NH. The aircraft was shot out of the sky over the Kostverlorenpolder by a German night pilot. The crew included six Czechs, employed by the Royal Airforce (RAF). According to defense specialists, the bodies of the victims should still be on the plane. Every reason to want to salvage this wreck.
Ironclad and linkable
In Bergschenhoek, the High Speed Line (HSL) runs right through the built-up area. This rail line has been there for about 12 years now. Admittedly in a sunken box, but still the residents are stuck with the noise pollution of trains passing at a speed of 160 km/h all this time. There are tall glass sound barriers, but they are not working properly.
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