Before compressed air was used, the machines on the site were powered by steam. The water tower next to the hoist building and the chimney of the boiler house on the Marktplein are still evidence of this. They were needed for the production of steam. The 55-metre-high Monnoyer chimney, a concrete chimney of the disappeared boiler house, dates, like the water tower, from 1913. It is an early application of concrete construction and more specifically of the prefabricated construction system of the Monnoyer company. This company had already patented prefabricated concrete constructions in 1906. They were mainly used in industrial construction. The boiler house had 15 grate boilers, which were fired by hand.

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