BERLIN - Congress hall Berlin
BERLIN - North cross, railway station Gesundbrunnen
BREMEN - Overpass, A281
DABENDORF - Cementsilo
DUESSELDORF - Cable stayed bridges over railway tracks
DUESSELDORF - City gate
DUESSELDORF - Rhine bridge family
DUESSELDORF - Rhine bridge Flehe
DUESSELDORF - Rhine stadium
DÜSSELDORF - Telecommunication tower - Rhine tower
EISENHÜTTENSTADT - Steel cold rolling mill
HAMBURG - ICE service building
HENNIGSDORF - BHKW
MUENCHEN - City-railway Munich
MUNICH - Railway goods terminal
WUPPERTAL - Suspension railway - column no. 100
 
Project
BERLIN - Reconstruction Congress hall

Location
Germany, Berlin

Client
Senatsverwaltung Berlin

Services
Expert reports, detailed designs, call for tender, static and structural checking

Processing time
1982 - 1986

Kind of building
Structural engineering

Structural system
Outer roof: Hyparshell between inclined arches
Inner roof: Hyparshell between ring girder

Total length
92 m

Span length
78 m

Total width
61 m

Foundation
Flat foundation

Material
Prestressed concrete, reinforced concrete

Construction Method
Outer roof with prefabricated units out of light concrete, placed on stressing tendons. Arches in prestressed concrete

Note
Stiffened walls and downstand beams. Outer and inner roof are staticly independent. Extensive studies of wind pressure and of the dynamic of the outer roof required. Nonlinear calculation.



 
last update: 12/12/2009
 
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