Renovation of municipal buildings with textile reinforced concrete

The great demand for the renovation of municipal buildings has been well-known for quite a long time and, within the scope of the financial aid from the Economic Stimulus Package II, it is now possible to quickly satisfy these demands. Hering provides innovative solutions for construction work and façade renovation projects. Textile reinforced, precast concrete elements are mounted on existing façades to present the older buildings in a surprisingly new appearance.

Textile reinforced concrete elements allow cladding and concrete covering operations to be performed in an extremely economical way. This system provides slim, large sized and relatively light elements, which are easy to manoeuvre throughout the entire manufacturing and mounting processes.

Hering has gathered over 35 years of experience in developing, manufacturing and mounting façade elements made of architectural concrete. In an earlier project with the Technical University of Dresden, small sized, textile reinforced artificial flagstones were developed to be applied for façade cladding and renovation purposes, and they were successfully marketed under the product name betoShell^®.

This product was then further developed within the scope of a research project at RWTH Aachen. At the end of the project, large sized, textile reinforced elements were mounted for the first time on a pilot object, a new building for the RWTH Aachen’s Institute of Solid Building Construction. This now provides the market with a curtain wall façade, for which the individual elements feature a thickness of only 35 mm over a surface of 12 sqm.

Due to the fact that the lower weight of individual elements allows lower transport costs, long delivery distances have a less negative effect on the marketability of the product. The versatility of the concrete mix and the slimness of the individual elements make the textile reinforced curtain wall façade an attractive option for any project where façade cladding is necessary or desired – both for new building construction or for the purpose of energy-efficient façade renovations. If, for instance, an older building should be sanitised by providing additional insulation, a textile reinforced curtain wall façade presents a distinctly lower increase of volume in comparison with ferroconcrete.

After concluding the research project with RWTH Aachen, Hering now announces the first commissioning of the newly developed curtain wall facade: As of March 2010, 240 storey high façade elements with a thickness of only 30 mm will be mounted on the building of the Surgical Clinic in Ulm.

For more detailed information, please visit our website under the following link: Renovation