WISH Workshop “Workpack Design for Steel House”
Steel solutions for lightweight steel-framed construction
Workshop in het Engels op 23 september 08: Berekenen van staalconstructies met koudgevormde profielen volgens de Eurocodes.
Invitation September, 23rd 2008
The European Light Steel Construction Association (LSK) in collaboration with the Centre Information Acier / Staalinfocentrum organizes a workshop focused on the WISH method. The WiSH method is a simplified method of design for cold-formed steel buildings, focused on of simple single family houses and low-rise office buildings (ground floor + 1 floor + attic). The method allows to easy-design cold-formed steel houses by means of a well-defined scope, an easy-to-use software which was developed in the basis of the Eurocodes and a series of constructional details.
Promotion and dissemination of this method in Europe is carried out in the frame of the European Project WISH, “Workpack for Design of Steel House”.
For this purpose, a series of six workshops in Belgium, France and Spain are being organized during autumn 2008. We invite you here to participate in the WiSH workshop that will take place on September, 23rd 2008 in ALD Business Center Z.4 Broekooi 280 in Asse-Kobbegem.
In this workshop, an overview of the method will be carried out and the participants will be trained in the use of the method by carrying out a practical case study.
Program
09.00 Welcome coffee
09.30 General Overview on Cold-formed Steel structures
- - What are cold-formed steel structures?
- - How to design CFS structures. Brief overview on Eurocodes
- - WiSH, the new Prescriptive Method for easy-design of CFS
11.15 Coffee Break -
11.30 Learn to design CFS houses with the WISH method: Case Study
13.00 Lunch time
14.30 The WISH package
- - Library of constructional details
- - Handbook for WISH
- - The WISH webpage
15.30 Discussion
16.00 Closure & Coffee
Registration form (WiSH Workshop)
The number of places is limited up to 20 people. There are no registration fees. Confirmation of acceptance will be provided. Unnotified abscence will be charged (50 Euro)
We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Research Fund for Coal and Steel to the WISH project.

