Wagner-Jauregg State Neurology Clinic in Linz, Austria

Since 1996, the Wagner-Jauregg State Neurology Clinic in Linz has been extended and modernized by extensive structural measures. After constructing the new building, opened in 2003, since 1996 the project has comprised refurbishment of the original building that is under a preservation order. The task of Fichtner Bauconsulting’s Linz Branch is to provide the services of general construction management, specialized civil engineering management and coordination of site works.

General planning for the German Center, Mexico

For the German Center Mexico in Mexico City, the engineering consortium of Fichtner GmbH & Co. KG, Fichtner Asia, and GLG Ingenieros y Consultores was entrusted with general planning and turnkey construction. This is a multi-functional building with a gross floor area of 25,000 m² and nine stories above and 3½ below ground level. The rooms comprise offices, stores, laboratories and assembly shops, with complete infrastructure. For tenants and visitors, an underground garage with a total of 550 parking spaces on 3½ levels is provided. Exhibition areas, restaurant and a cafeteria as well as media, congress and business centers have likewise been planned and built to the latest standards.

Planning of Operation Support Facility for the ALMA Observatory, Chile

Whereas the radio telescope of the astronomic project “Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)” in the Atacama Desert is located at an altitude of 5000 m, the Operation Support Facility (OSF) with assembly hangar, control center, laboratories and offices is 30 km away downhill at 2900 m. For this OSF site, Fichtner undertook conceptual engineering, layout planning, execution planning and detailed engineering, prepared the tender documents and undertook project tracking for all components of this facility, which is one of the biggest and foremost astronomic control centers of the world.

General planning of a large-scale trials center, Duisburg, Germany

In the new large-scale trials center in Duisburg, Siemens will test its major manufactured components, like compressors, under realistic operating conditions for their permittability. For this purpose, all required media, like gas, steam, compressed air and electricity, are supplied via a comprehensive infrastructure. The core of the facility is a 180 m long workshop, in which plant trains of up to 60 m in length are tested. Following successful trials, the equipment is transported via a high payload track for loading onto ships in the Rhine Port of Duisburg. For this project, FICHTNER BAUCONSULTING renders complete detailed planning, draws up tender documents, participates in contract award and takes over site supervision. Together with IKG-FICHTNER, this affiliated company is supervising the entire mechanical, electrical, I&C and civil contract sections.

Structural planning for Stuttgart Municipal Art Gallery, Germany

Major parts of the exhibition areas of the new gallery are located beneath the public square “Kleiner Schlossplatz”  in a disused tunnel. A five story office block is supported by the exhibition rooms spanning the tunnel. The new structure comprises the cubical exhibition building, underground gallery areas and adjoining rooms housing archives. For construction of the new gallery and a commercial block, Fichtner in collaboration with a planning partner undertook as engineering services structural planning, mainly concentrated on the underground structures and foundations.

SCALA Stuttgart, Germany

In the SCALA building in Stuttgart, some 15,000 m² floor area is being created for renting as shops and offices. Car parking is made available in an underground, automated “Parksafe” facility. Fichtner Bauconsulting’s task is to handle structural planning for complex integration of the underground stories into the existing transportation structure, as well as building over the underground story of the neighboring art museum.

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