New construction of 4,310 m² of warehouse, service, and office facilities
- Address
- Tietgensgade, Copenhagen
Info
- Client
- HOFOR
- Area
- 4,310 m²
- Architect
- Gottlieb Paludan
- Project Period
- 2018–20202
- Contractor
- BAM Denmark
- Total Construction Cost
- 92 million DKK
Project Description
As part of the Amager Power Plant’s biomass-fired power generation unit, the BIO4 administration building covers 2,450 m² of floor area, with three upper floors, each measuring 620 m².
The building combines storage and service facilities on the ground floor with office space on the upper floors.
The ground floor (“the base”) has a larger floor area than the three upper floors (“the tower”). A workshop building is located in the southeast corner of the ground floor. The building is connected to (but structurally separated from, except for the foundations) BIO 4, providing access from BIO 4 to the ground floor of the administration building as well as to the roof deck above the ground floor.
The floor separations are constructed using prefabricated hollow-core slabs spanning between concrete walls or steel-composite beams, with the latter spanning between concrete columns or concrete walls. The exterior walls consist of sandwich panels with a 200-mm-thick load-bearing core, insulation, and a 70-mm-thick facing panel, finished with visual facade cladding.
The ground floor slab is a self-supporting cast-in-place slab spanning between point and strip foundations and supported by driven concrete piles. The project also includes interdisciplinary consistency and clash checks, as well as ongoing monitoring of model quality and data structure.
Sustainability
At ABC, we specialize in projects where sustainability must be incorporated from the initial phases to avoid wasting usable building materials and to reduce the need to produce new building materials.
By reusing as much as possible, we avoid the need to produce new, CO2-intensive structural elements for the construction. Therefore, we prioritize the use of climate-friendly and Nordic Swan-labeled materials. Since this is a building for the Amager Power Plant—a bio-based power plant unit—sustainability is a key consideration throughout the entire process.
The facility is a key element in the City of Copenhagen’s efforts to become the world’s first carbon-neutral capital.
