A school built in Neubiberg, a suburb of Munich, in 1976, and enlarged on its south side in 2004, required new fire-safety measures, and the administration’s original goal was to implement them. However, a thorough examination of the building revealed widespread substandard dry-construction details, e.g. those adjoining the concrete rib floor decks, as well as asbestos contamination in the facade and roof. Therefore, in the end an overhaul was unavoidable. Today one does not immediately recognise – neither from inside nor from outside – that this secondary school for about 1300 pupils is a renovated building.
The fire protection measures include: encasing the roof structure’s steel beams in concrete, and a composite roof construction of recycled, corrugated metal sheets accompanied by a new layer of concrete. Thanks to the long-span roof beams, the team could relatively easily fulfil the client’s wish – which was expressed mid-way through the construction phase – to accommodate new teaching concepts with open classrooms on the upper level of the southerly classroom wing.
The overall costs amounted to 55?% of a comparable new structure; the refurbishment has upgraded the building (it now attains contemporary energy-saving standards) and made it more flexible, allowing it to foster different ways of learning.
The fire protection measures include: encasing the roof structure’s steel beams in concrete, and a composite roof construction of recycled, corrugated metal sheets accompanied by a new layer of concrete. Thanks to the long-span roof beams, the team could relatively easily fulfil the client’s wish – which was expressed mid-way through the construction phase – to accommodate new teaching concepts with open classrooms on the upper level of the southerly classroom wing.
The overall costs amounted to 55?% of a comparable new structure; the refurbishment has upgraded the building (it now attains contemporary energy-saving standards) and made it more flexible, allowing it to foster different ways of learning.