Facade and window refurbishment
At first glance, the slab blocks on Saatwinkler Damm in Berlin-Spandau are not especially exciting. But the restoration of the faVades and windows was something of a challenge: The measure was to preserve their value and yet cost little. Provided with sealing tapes and ledges from Tremco illbruck, the building is now fit for the next century.
The multi-story building complex in Berlin consists of 430 dwelling units. The eight-story-high slab blocks built in the 1970s are broken up through projections and recesses as wells as access towers. In the course of time, the so-called West slab blocks, similar to their East German counterparts, provided with sandwich elements, had been damaged by growth, solar radiation, frost and rain. The connection joints of the original plastic windows were moreover no longer tight. These defects had gone unnoticed for a long time, until massive water damage became visible on the interior of the...
