Snijders Valencia is bursting at the seams

Alot has happened since the start of Snijders Engineering Group in Valencia a few months ago, in November 2018 the first Revit Modelers have started working in the beautiful office of Regus Valencia. After an intensive training they have been working on various Snijders Ingenieursgroep projects at full throttle these last few months.

The first expansion didn’t take long because a group of Constructive Engineers joined the team in February 2019. They also went through an intensive training and are very busy with all the challenging Snijders projects at this moment.

The Regus office was getting pretty full so a new location had to be sought quickly because the Tekla Modelers starting in March also needed a desk to work at. This new location announced itself at the Parque Tecnológico Valencia, thé business and technology park in Valencia, in the shape of the Wellness office. After a few adjustments the office has been transformed into an open office landscape, fully furnished with new furniture, the newest equipment and of course a nice canteen.

Subsidiary company International Job Challenge is also housed in the same office and together with the new colleagues that are starting in April makes a total count of 20 employees represented in Valencia. All enthusiastic and talented Engineers who will make the Snijders projects a success together with the colleagues in Veldhoven.

So there has been a massive growth in a few months time in Valencia. The new office gives Snijders Engineering Group the possibility to grow even further in the future. This growth will not take too long because a group of new Revit and Tekla Modelers will join the team very soon!

To all the new colleagues a warm welcome to the Snijders group and the best of luck with this new challenge!

Snijders Ingenieursgroep has welcomed the 50th engineer

Shams Hamidi graduated the Technical University Eindhoven in 2018 with a specialization in Structural Design and has started working as a structural engineer for Snijders Ingenieursgroep since february 2019.

Snijders Ingenieursgroep now counts a total of 50 engineers in the team.

During the last few years Snijders Ingenieursgroep has made a strong growth and for the upcoming years the order book is already filled with complex and challenging building constructions. Keeping the focus on ‘high quality’ and ‘on time’  has led to an expansion of Snijders Ingenieursgroep existing customer base. Snijders Ingenieursgroep will follow through with this policy in the future by paying attention to innovating and automation.

Welcome to the team Shams and good luck with this new challenge!

Excellent achievement during ISO 9001 audit

During the annual ISO 9001 audit the managementsystem of Snijders Ingenieursgroep was tested. The accent this audit was put on realizing some points of improvement and the way Snijders Ingenieursgroep has handled market threats.

Snijders Ingenieursgroep received a big compliment from the external auditor of Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance for realizing the following goals.

  1. The realization of the new housing. Because of this Snijders Ingenieursgroep has good workplaces for the employees and the organisation can continue it’s growth from a sustainable premises.
  2. The opening of the office of Snijders Engineering Group in Valencia. Snijders Ingenieursgroep managed to circumvent the tight labour market conditions in The Netherlands.
  3. The realized automation projects for the departments Tekla and Revit. These projects have lead to a more efficiënt procedures and have reduced the chance of errors.

Snijders Ingenieursgroep received a lot of appreciation for realizing these goals within the period of one year. For all employees in Veldhoven and Valencia an achievement to be proud of!

Snijders Ingenieursgroep will continue working in accordance with the quality of ISO 9001:2015 and will continue to critically evaluate it’s mangementsystem for a positive result of the recertification in 2020.

Snijders Ingenieursgroep wishes everyone a merry Christmas!

The annual Snijders Ingenieursgroep Christmas trip has taken place last week. With a nod to our Spanish colleagues we have walked the Tour las Tapas in ‘s-Hertogenbosch last friday. A 3 course tapas dinner in 3 different restaurants in the city center, with a scouting expedition with puzzles and questions in between courses. A fun and succesful evening!

Snijders Ingenieursgroep looks back at a succesful 2018 in which beautiful projects have been realised, new colleagues have been welcomed, we have moved to a new location in Veldhoven and as icing on the cake the opening of our location in Valencia (Spain) where Snijders Engineering Group has started.

Snijders Ingenieursgroep and Snijders Engineering Group wishes everyone feliz navidad y prospero año nuevo! On to a productive 2019!

39 years Snijders Ingenieursgroep

On the 39th anniversary of Snijders Ingenieursgroep we look back at the past. A past in which Leo Snijders started Snijders Ingenieursgroep from his attic on 01/11/1979. A past with lows, of which the crisis in the construction has been very hard. But mostly a past with many highlights. Highlights that have led to a strong and professional engineeringteam, good customers and partners and a portfolio with beautiful and unique projects after 39 years.

We are also looking at the present. A present in which we are located in a beautiful new location in Veldhoven. Looking at a present in which we also, very symbolically on 01/11/2018, opened a new office in Valencia, Spain, where 5 new and enthousiastic colleagues started working for Snijders Engineering Group. As Revit modelers they are now following a training from our Revit specialist and projectleader Raymond. To all our new colleagues in Valencia: a warm welcome to our team and the best of luck with this new challenge!

And so we are also looking at the future. A future in which Snijders Ingenieursgroep and Snijders Engineering Group want to belong to the best engineering offices in Europe and to make beautiful and unique projects within our core business: engineering and modeling precast concrete constructions.

For this we would like to expand our teams in Veldhoven and Valencia, so check out our vacancies and come join our team!

Snijders Ingenieursgroep goes on an adventure in Spain!

After a thorough market research and the necessary preparations we have decided to open a business establishment of Snijders Ingenieursgroep in Spain. The beautiful Valencia will be the location of this business establishment where 5 Revit modelers will start working from november. And from january we will add Tekla modelers and engineers as new members of the Spanish team.

We have chosen a state of the art building of Regus. It is best situated relative to 3 important business districts in Valencia, nearby the port and opposite the Estadio Mastalla of Valencia FC!

An extensive selection took place amongst a lot of enthusiastic candidates. Therefrom we have chosen 5 talented and motivated Revit modelers en engineers who will be working under the name Snijders Engineering Group. We are also expecting a lot of interest in the vacancy of Tekla modeler for which we will be starting the selection procedure in short term.

At the start in november a Revit specialist and projectleader from Snijders Ingenieursgroep in The Netherlands will be giving a training for our new Spanish colleagues. After the training the Spanish team will be committed to support their Dutch colleagues in current Dutch projects. Thereafter they will discover the Spanish market to start new projects.

Valencia belongs to the top four business cities in Spain and we are convinced that our Spanish colleagues of Snijders Engineering Group will make a resounding success of our core business: engineering and modeling precast concrete constructions!

We are very proud of and enthusiastic about this big step in the development of Snijders Ingenieursgroep!

Curro VerhagenDirector

International open BIM award 2018 won by Pontsteiger!

The unique residential building Pontsteiger at the Amsterdam Houthaven is the winner of the international BuildingSMART Award 2018 in the category ‘construction’. This was announced during the ‘International Standards Summit’ in Tokyo.

Building combination Pontsteiger, consisting of Dura Vermeer, De Nijs and involved partners has realised the project fully according to open BIM standards. The open BIM ideas have been the thread running through the project from the development to the building process at which working together in a structured and unambiguously can lead to the increase of the integrality of the different parts, speeding up the alignment, facilitating in prefabrication and the increase of quality and safety during the building process.

One of the involved partners of Building combination Pontsteiger is Hoco Beton. They have delivered approximately 6500 m3 precast concrete in the form of stability walls, columns, balconies, roofing sheets, consoles or staircases. Hoco Beton has instructed Snijders Ingenieursgroep to engineer the precast concrete core- elevator and staircase walls. As one of the pioneers in 3D modeling Snijders Ingenieursgroep has taken this instruction and worked it out according to the open BIM ideas. With this Snijders Ingenieursgroep has made a good contribution to the unique project Pontsteiger, the rightfull winner of  the international BuildingSMART Award 2018.

BuildingSMART is an international non-profit organisation which develops open BIM-standards and stimulates the use of those standards. BuildingSMART International organizes an annual Award program. In this program a jury looks at how effective and innovative the open BIM-standards are applied in projects and how challenges can be overcome in the digital collaboration. BuildingSmart had difficulty looking at all the contributions this year and chosing a winner – there have never been so many contributions as this year.

This award is a confirmation that working in accordance with open BIM standards can lead to beautiful and unique results. Snijders Ingenieursgroep is proud of the contribution we have delivered to Pontsteiger!

Willem RooijakkersProjectleader

New name, new branding

From this moment on Adviesburo Snijders has changed it’s name to Snijders Ingenieursgroep. In an earlier post you have been able to read about our move from Valkenswaard to a magnificent new location in Veldhoven. We wanted a complete renewal in style so we also changed our logo and the website (snijders-ig.nl).

If any parts of the website aren’t functioning or do not meet up to your expactations, please let us know. You can send an e-mail to secretariaat@snijders-ig.nl

Our location in Valkenswaard became to small. Our team of specialists keeps on growing so we were in need of a new and bigger location. We are very proud of our new office in Veldhoven.

Curro VerhagenDirector

New website!

Earlier we announced our move to this magnificent office in Veldhoven. Besides a renewed fysical presentation of our company, we also searched for a partner to provide us with a new presentation online. You can go to the homepage here to browse through the pages of the website. Are there things you did not expect or wished for? We appreciate your feedback! You can e-mail Mariko via mvj@snijders-ig.nl.

Our website was in desperate need of renewal. People can now find Snijders Ingenieursgroep online and our online business card reads well on every device!

Mariko van de Ven-JansenSecretarieel medewerker

Snijders Ingenieursgroep moves to Veldhoven

A nice reward for all our hard work and the fast and ongoing growth of Snijders Ingenieursgroep: our move to a new office! Together with bouwkenners.nl and Stabiel Management B.V. we can be found at the Nijverheidslaan 155 te Veldhoven as of 01/05/2018. A big office and a big new step forward, we are very proud!

Our location in Valkenswaard became to small. Our team of specialists keeps on growing so we were in need of a new and bigger location. We are very proud of our new office in Veldhoven.

Curro VerhagenDirector.