BWE/Hebau

Prestigious façades made
of architectural concrete

Many successful reference projects show that BWE-Bau Fertigteilwerk GmbH, Wiefelstede/Germany, have made a name for themselves in the field of manufacturing architectural concrete façades. In this regard, particular attention is paid to ­premium surface design, which is the reason for the cooperation with Hebau GmbH based in Sonthofen.

A seven-story new building with a gross floor space of 35,700 m² has recently been erected by company Zechbau, NL Berlin, at Otto-Suhr-Allee in Berlin-Charlottenburg by order of Art Invest Real Estate, according to the design of HPP Hentrich-Petschnigg & Partner GmbH + Co. KG, Cologne. The administration building providing office space for about 2,500 workplaces is mainly used by Deutsche Bank as major tenant. Thanks to the efficient construction method using load-bearing precast concrete elements of BWE-Bau, the building shell and the façade could be completed within ten months.

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