Hydro Ingenieure - Vision to clear solutions

Commercial centre Lower Austria - St. Pölten

Tasks definition
  • Construction of the office building
  • Office building was to be designed and constructed complying with passive house standards
  • Special architecture (sloping facades)
  • Construction ecology standards (ecologically compatible construction, PVC-free)

Solution
  • Reversible groundwater heat pump with natural cooling agent for heating and cooling
  • Additional CO2-neutral cooling directly with groundwater
  • Concrete core activation for heating and cooling
  • Groundwater utilization for WC- flushing
  • Lightning control regulated by daily light availability
  • Emergency lightning in LED-Technology
  • Waterless urinals
  • Ventilation facilities with double plate heat exchanger

Services
  • Heating, ventilation, cooling, sanitation, complete LV and HV connections, groundwater analysis study, rain water irrigation
  • Preliminary design
  • Draft design
  • Design for permission
  • Detailed design
  • Preparation and assistance within the contracting
  • Approval for installation design
  • Construction supervision
  • Taking-over
  • Defects liability period supervision

Facts
  • Client: Architect Millbacher ZT GmbH
  • Gross area: approx. 10.000 m²
  • Project period: 2005 - 2008, Defects liability till 2011
  • Total budget: € 22.500.000,–
  • Contact person: Andreas Biegler, BSc