PREFABRICATED
HIGH-CLASS FACADE
ELEMENTS MADE
IN GERMANY
Prefabrication is and always has been a key issue in construction
on account of the advantages associated with it: components can
be manufactured under ideal conditions independent of weather
and then mounted or assembled efficiently so as to save time
and money. For example this way, it is now possible to mount
prefabricated houses within a single day. Prefabricated elements
also play a key role in the safety-relevant area of facades. Apart
from the goal of saving time and money as referred to above, there
is yet another advantage in densely-populated cities: in many
cases, there simply is not enough space to store semi-finished
products on construction sites in terms of safety and logistics.
A perfect example of where these aspects applied was realized
in London in 2018 and involved competent collaboration by the
renowned German companies Lindner Fassaden GmbH (Arnstorf)
and Agrob Buchtal GmbH (Schwarzenfeld).
A PORTRAIT OF THE BUILDING OWNER
The “Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine”
(Imperial College) is a university and technical college of applied
sciences in London. Founded in 1907, it is among the leading
international institutions of its kind. In 2013, the facility acquired a
site spanning 46,500 square metres in the London suburb of White
City, with plans to erect a building housing research, teaching,
companies, and apartments. This saw the entire campus area double
to 93,000 square metres. These impressive figures are an indication
of the sheer size and significance of Imperial College. Since then,
lots has happened on the new site referred to as White City
Campus (aka Technology Campus): the “Translation & Innovation
Hub” opened in 2016; 2017 saw the “Invention Rooms” go into
operation and ground was broken for the “Michael Uren Biomedical
Engineering Research Hub”; the “Molecular Sciences Research Hub”
(MSRH) opened in 2018. The so-called Block F was also built during
this period. Completed in 2018, it accommodates around 200
apartments for key college personnel.