The shell of the Germering educational quarter has been completed: Together with around 100 guests, Mayor Andreas Haas, Samira Pichler, Chief Development Officer of Ehret+Klein AG, and Martin Bumann, Technical Branch Manager Turnkey Construction Munich at Zech Bau SE, celebrated the topping-out ceremony and thus an important milestone on the way to a new educational and meeting place for Germering.
“I am really impressed by how quickly the building has grown within the past eleven months since the foundation stone was laid. With this educational quarter including a coworking space, Germering is once again ahead in the district. And I am very pleased that we as a city can rent rooms for our adult education centre and the music school in this special house of innovation and creativity,” explained Lord Mayor Andreas Haas and wished every success for the further construction work.
“From the end of the year, the Bildungsquartier will become a new meeting place for Germering. It shows that for us, sustainability includes not only ecological but also social aspects. People of all ages and income groups meet here – an approach that we are pursuing both for commercial space and for apartments, because around 30 percent of the apartments are rent-reduced,” says Samira Pichler, Chief Development Officer at Ehret+Klein AG.
Martin Bumann, Technical Branch Manager, ZECH Bau SE Turnkey Construction Munich Branch, adds: “We are very pleased that we are on schedule with the construction and that the expansion work has started as planned. For the public, the exciting part now begins, in which the building takes its final shape step by step.”
With the Bildungsquartier Germering, a building complex with an area of around 7,000 square metres and a clear focus on education and housing is being built on the formerly heavily sealed site of a former furniture and residential building. The Digital Education Foundation, a Heimerer nursing school, the adult education centre and music school in Germering and a coworking space by the company Interlink Space have already been confirmed as users.
The educational quarter, designed by the architectural firm Grassinger Emrich, consists of a base building and two towers. On the lower floors, space for commerce, offices and education will be created, and in the two towers a total of 38 rental and owner-occupied apartments, of which about 30 percent will be offered at a reduced rent. The energy-efficient apartments are primarily aimed at singles, couples and young families. The first units have already found their new owners.
A green communal roof garden and a catering area with a green outdoor area in the inner courtyard round off the concept of the building. In addition to social sustainability, the ecological aspect also plays an important role. Façade greening, roof gardens and planted open spaces improve the microclimate and quality of stay. Solar systems and the use of groundwater heat support sustainable building operation.
Already during the demolition and shell construction phase, the local volunteer fire brigade used the construction site several times for training purposes.
