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13th October 2009
New Orders and Markets for Gartner /
Facades for ADAC, the German Stock Exchange, Tamar,
La Roche, Swarovski, AXA inter alia. /
A Growing Market for Museum Facades
GUNDELFINGEN, 13th OCTOBER 2009. This year Josef Gartner GmbH was successful in securing several new curtain wall orders for prominent buildings. In Germany, these include the ADAC Headquarters in Munich, the German Stock Exchange in Eschborn and the Oeconomicum in Düsseldorf. In Hong Kong, the Tamar Government Centre is the largest building in the city. In USA, above all others, museums like The Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland. Germany's biggest curtain wall construction company entered new markets in Switzerland with orders for the headquarters of Roche Diagnostics in Rotkreuz, Swarovski in Männedorf and AXA in Zürich. Gartner has also received orders for several mock-up facades for the prospective highest skyscraper in Europe, the 406 meter high Oktha Centre in St. Petersburg.
“We are entering the new year with a sizeable order backlog,” said Klaus Lother, Gartner's General Manager. Gartner's holding company Permasteelisa S.p.A. was able to acquire orders totalling 1,146 Billion Euros in 2008 and 506 Million Euros in the first half year 2009. For the coming year Gartner expects a constant and sound work load. The company has also received design orders for the Tanzenden Türme in Hamburg, the Havard Art Museum and the Pinnacle in London.
For the new ADAC Headquarters in Munich, Gartner is installing a 21.000 m2 façade, of which 11.000 m2 will be clad with a double skin façade for natural ventilation. The Deutsche Börse in Eschborn, designed by KSP Engel and Zimmermann, consists of a curtain wall area of 40.000 m2 including an integrated façade for heating and cooling. The ongoing façade works should be completed in April next year. The latest order is the new development of the Oeconomicum in Düsseldorf by Ingenhoven Architects, which will receive, among other things, a filigree steel stick system façade made of welded special T-profiles.
After the newly opened Novartis building in Basel, designed by Frank Gehry, Gartner also received the award of the contract for the new Roche Diagnostics Headquarters in Rotkreuz. For this project Gartner produced, for the first time ever, the newly developed CCF-Façade (Closed Cavity Façade), an exceptional energy-saving façade. This façade is a further development of the double skin façade. The closed double skin façade with triple glazing improves heat-absorbing and sound insulation qualities. Dirt can no longer collect in the façade cavity and there is no need for cleaning. Gartner will install the 8.200 m2 CCF-façade and the works project will run until October next year.
Gartner's largest project at present is the 104.000 m2 curtain wall for the Tamar Development Project in Hong Kong. The future government and parliament of Hong Kong will be housed in this building which is to be clad with various façades of glass, steel, aluminium and stone.
“Facades for museums, especially in USA, with increasingly complex façade forms designed by star architects, are a growing market for Gartner. Gartner facades, like the ones for MoMA in New York, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the BMW World in Munich and the Art Institute of Chicago are aimed at bringing more light and quality to the exhibitions, opening the buildings to the surroundings and are themselves works of art. These facades require creative engineering from design to production through to assembly, as well as experience in the use of different materials,” explained Klaus Lother.
For the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Gartner constructed, among other things, a glass roof as an integrated façade. For the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum in Boston designed by Renzo Piano, Gartner will produce a 5.400 m_ steel stick system façade and a cold façade made of copper sheeting, and works will run until March 2011. In addition, Gartner is involved in preliminary works on a number of other museum projects by Renzo Piano.
Detailed Information:
Klaus Lother, General Manager, Josef Gartner GmbH, Gartnerstr. 20,
89423 Gundelfingen, Tel.: +49 9073 84-0
Dr. Jochen Mignat, Dr. Mignat PR, Am Hexenpfad 11, 63450 Hanau,
Tel. +49 6181 50791-0, pr@mignat.de
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