Elbe Delcon

“Dortmund U” – huge school building project ­using ­prestressed concrete floor slabs

On the former plot of the Dortmund Union brewery the large-scale urban development project of the vocational college the so-called “Dortmunder U – Das Viertel” (“Dortmund U – The Quarter”) has been completed. The project was started in 2013. The Robert-Bosch-Berufskolleg and the new Robert-Schuman-Berufskolleg, an interdisciplinary sector, an underground parking lot as well as a new office building covering a rentable area of approx. 4,000 m² were built next to the famous U tower, the center of art and creativity, on a partial area covering 20,000 m² that belonged to former grounds of the...

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