FESTIVE INAUGURATION OF THE TECHNICAL COLLEGE AT THE JAKOB-BRUCKER-GYMNASIUM KAUFBEUREN

On 11 March 2019, the Jakob-Brucker-Gymnasium school family celebrated the solemn opening of the new building for the natural sciences, which was given the name "Technikum", together with representatives from politics, schools and administration.

The new building was erected in a central location in the heart of the school campus and will in future connect the previously separate existing buildings by means of bridge constructions in such a way that the pupils can switch dry-footed between the buildings.

The Lord Mayor of Kaufbeuren, Stefan Bosse, praised the completion of the first construction phase as an "important milestone" in the general renovation of the high school. It was thanks to the good cooperation of the experts that the complex construction project was able to progress so far. The ministerial representative for the high schools in Swabia, Peter Kempf, and the headmaster of the Jakob-Brucker-Gymnasium, Christof Walter, also thanked everyone involved in the realization of the new building. The teachers of the school expressly praised the extraordinarily good execution of the construction project during ongoing school operations with minimized disturbances regarding noise and spatial restrictions.

Miriam Hohfeld, a representative of the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development, travelled from Bonn specifically to recognize this project as one of seven pilot projects in the "Educational Buildings in the Energy Efficiency House Plus Standard" program (for more information, see the BMI brochure "Paths to the Energy Efficiency House Plus", page 34ff).

The construction project is supported with an above-average funding rate of 63 percent by funds from the Free State of Bavaria.

A special challenge for the parties involved in the planning and the company responsible for the shell construction of this new building is certainly the extensive execution in fair-faced concrete quality.

In the meantime, construction work has already begun on the second construction phase, the refurbishment and conversion of the existing building.

In this project, KREBS+KIEFER is providing the structural design services including construction supervision for all construction phases.