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Flexible design - with a view to the future

Building products make buildings more flexible - because they make it easier to adapt to changing requirements. The easier it is to reuse, convert and deconstruct, the lower the effort and the risk of vacancy. Users, operators and investors benefit from this.

You can exert influence right from the start - and opt for modular components such as system partitions and element facades as well as flexible products such as detachable floor and ceiling coverings.

New Construction Eisbärhaus Bauteil C

Award:DGNB Certificate in Platinum
Usage profile:New Construction Mixed Use, Version 2018
Project location:Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany
Applicant:Grundstücksgemeinschaft Hindenburgstraße 34 GbR
Building owner / Investor:Grundstücksgemeinschaft Hindenburgstraße 34 GbR
DGNB Auditor:Auch-Schwelk, Volker for: sustainable strategies 
ECO1.1 Life cycle cost

Our aim of the criterion "Life cycle cost" is a sensible and conscious use of economic resources over the entire life cycle of a building. The conception and planning phases for the realisation of a building contain the essential optimisation potential for later economic management. Those involved in planning should regularly and already in early planning phases deal with possible consequential costs of their design and implementation variants.

TEC1.6 Ease of recovery and recycling

Our aim of the criteria "Ease of recovery and recycling" is the highly economical use of natural resources and their efficient utilisation. Accordingly, we promote solutions that allow already created values to be reused as far as possible without any losses. Determined by the resolution to require almost no primary resources for the construction and maintenance of buildings, we strongly advocate a strategy to increase the current material effectiveness: for a virtually loss-free recycling of materials - in combination with a significant reduction of the materials used. Thus, the criterion of deconstruction and recyclability aims at one of the most important concerns of the DGNB: to create a "circular economy" that enables actors and users to reduce the degradation of natural resources to a minimum, or at best to do without it altogether. The result is that the resources used, once they have been used for their own benefit, will continue to be available to future generations to the greatest possible extent - for their own beneficial development.

ECO2.1 Flexibility and adaptability

Our aim of the criterion "Flexibility and adaptability"  is to ensure that buildings are designed to be as flexible as possible and that as much convertibility as possible is planned in.

PRO1.5 Documentation for sustainable management

Our aim of the criterion "Documentation for sustainable management" is to optimise the building's operation immediately after completion and to turn the planned performance of the building into reality with as few deviations as possible from the planning. For this, it is necessary that all relevant information for the owner, the tenant and the operator is available in a structured way.