Ground-breaking ceremony for the extension of the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus

The ground-breaking ceremony for the extension of the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders Haus in the Parlamentsviertel district in Berlin Mitte took place on 9^th November 2010.

A speech on behalf of the owner was made by the president of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning, Rita Ruoff-Breuer, while speeches on behalf of the users were made by Dr. Peter Raumsauer, Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Urban Development and by Dr. Wolfgang Thierse, vice-president of the German Federal Parliament and chairman of the committee of the Council of Elders on building and planning.   

Afterwards, the three speakers and the architect Stephan Braunfels reached for their shovels and assisted the construction firm.

Work on the construction pit began on 1^st October and now that the start of construction of the building shell is in sight – probably 1^st July 2001 – the ground-breaking ceremony marked the official start of the project. The expected total construction costs are ca. 198 million EUR; the building is planned as a high-quality architectural concrete construction that continues the “Band des Bundes” series of government buildings.

KREBS+KIEFER Berlin is responsible for the following services (in some cases using subcontractors):

•  exploration of foundation soil and expert report on subsoil
•  object planning for construction pit shoring
•  structural design of the extension and the construction pit shoring
•  advice on concrete technology for the architectural concrete components of the building
•  support for the agreement procedure (ZiE) for the combined piled raft foundations
•  thermal building physics services
•  services in the area of building and room acoustics
•  preventative and structural fire protection services