BMW-Welt Facades-Service Buildings

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Scope of work

• Design, workshop and installation planning, manufacturing and installation of 16,000 m2 facade cladding in inner and outer areas.
• 14,500 m2 in 3 mm stainless steel panels.
• Glass facades as 1,600 m2 mixed steel and aluminium transom / mullion construction.
• Glass parapets.
• Textile sun protection / glare shield systems.
• Smoke warning systems.
• Other glass and metalwork e.g. electrically actuated 1.5 m x 4.8 m maintenance louvres.
• Lift glazing, indoor glass sliding leaf 6 m x 3 m.
• Space-creating steel load-bearing structures and steel/aluminium substructures.

Innovations / Challenges

• Implementation planning and realisation of exceptional building geometry.
• Precision planity of approx. 9,000 smooth matt stainless steel sheets mounted on a form-giving steel substructure
• Sharp-edged sheets, laser-cut in extremely diverse formats.
• Diagonal joint pattern.