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PDB 41

Construction Project
Securing of a Listed Shear Wall
Location
  • Berlin-Kreuzberg
Client
  • GBI-Gesellschaft für Beteiligungen und Immobilienprojektentwicklung mbH & Co. KG
Planning
  • GKK & Partner, Architects, Berlin
Investment volume
  • approx. EUR 0.240 million
Construction period
  • May 2002 to October 2002
Contracted services for BMG
  • Construction consulting for the technical performance of the interception
  • Cost analysis of the interception measures
  • Supervision of the technical performance
Lot area
  • 4,314 m²
Construction floor space
  • 4,141 m²
Gross floor space
  • 20,336 m²
Gross volume
  • 81,502 m³
Storeys
  • Basement, ground floor, 1st to 4th floors, attic storey
Utilization
  • 4-star-plus hotel
Construction
  • Load removal over four GEWI posts, post diameter 50 mm, column diameter 200 mm, reinforcement with outside steel pipe to composite section
  • Application of the shear wall (700 kN) on IPE 600 as cross-beam
  • Construction of a reinforced concrete frame as top beam on the GEWI posts
  • Placement and wedging of the steel beams on the reinforced concrete frame
  • Demolition of the old foundations
  • Construction of the invert as concrete impervious to water and underpinning of the shear wall
  • Removal of the auxiliary construction
Design/Fixtures
  • Securing and preservation of the historical shear wall of the Siemens headquarters
  • Integration of the masonry wall in the new construction of the building as a construction monument