Germany – Load-bearing structure design services – Stadt Friedrichsthal: Tragwerksplanung für den Neubau der Nachmittagsbetreuung an der Bismarckschule

Due to the Day Care Promotion Act passed by the Federal Government, there is a legal entitlement to full-day care. From August 2026, all first-grade primary school children will initially have the legal entitlement to full-day care. This entitlement will be extended by one grade level each subsequent year, so that from August 2029, every primary school child in grades one through four can be cared for full-day. According to the current school development plan of the city of Friedrichsthal, as well as the forecast figures of the Ministry of Education, an average of 230 students is expected. If the facility is used by two-thirds (realistic utilization rate) of the students daily until 5 p.m. ("long group"), 6 group rooms are needed. Since the spatial capacities at the school location Bismarckschule are exhausted, the entire afternoon offer must be accommodated in the planned extension building in the future. To determine the needs at the school location in total and to incorporate them into the designs and construction phases, a participation process (Phase zero) with representatives of the school, the administration, and the full-day care was placed before the actual planning process, also to meet contemporary pedagogy. Due to the funding guidelines of the Investment Program for Full-Day Expansion (Ministry for Education and Culture), the following room program resulted: 6 group rooms, 1 dining room (meals in two meal rounds), 1 serving kitchen, 4 WC (girls, boys, disabled, staff), 1 team room FGTS, 1 school social work, 1 caretaker, 1 first aid, 1 technical room, storage rooms. The two-story building is to be equipped with an elevator to ensure barrier-free access. The corridors, which are to be provided due to the escape routes, should also be usable for children's activities. The project will also be funded through the school construction program BAUSTEIN of the Ministry of the Interior, Building and Sport as of 05.03.2024. Energy-efficient measures that meet a corresponding KfW standard will be funded from the Transformation Fund. The use of sustainable materials and the recyclability of building materials is desirable for resource conservation and circular economy. Inclusion in the above-mentioned funding programs requires the creation of a HU building. According to the funding guidelines, the project must be completed by 31.12.2029. All final invoices must be submitted and all trades settled by this date. A new building is planned to accommodate the afternoon care for the Bismarckschule. For this, planners are sought to provide the following services: project planning, structural engineering and technical equipment planning. The Bismarckschule (primary school) in Friedrichsthal currently consists of three different buildings: the gym, the original school building from the 1920s and the later addition from the 1970s. The afternoon care is to be accommodated in a new building to be erected, which complements the existing ensemble and encloses the schoolyard on the side that is still open. To further specify the project, phases 1-3 of the project planning have already been created. The prepared planning documents are part of the viewable tender documents (plans in the annex). A two-story flat roof building with extensive roof greening, a PV system, and a heat pump on the roof is planned. The foundations are planned as individual or strip foundations (depending on the load-bearing capacity of the soil). The building structure is planned in timber frame construction, with the floor slabs to be executed in a hybrid timber construction of concrete and wood. The facade is planned as a colored wooden facade of local larch/pine wood as a vertical floor covering (or similar). The floor-to-ceiling windows and doors are to be executed as wood-aluminum elements in the facade with external sun protection (roller shutters). Two bridges are attached to the south and north sides, which serve for shading and can be used as maintenance walkways. Access to the building is via the schoolyard at the facade. On the ground floor, there is a large dining hall with a kitchen as a communal "main room". The room program in the ground floor is supplemented with additional group rooms, which are dimensioned so that they can also be used as school classrooms. This also applies to the group rooms on the 1st floor. The community room located on the upper floor serves various leisure activities for the afternoon care. Two social rooms are connected to the room via a glass wall and serve for individual care and counseling. The large community room can be reused for groups or as classrooms through flexible partition walls. A wooden staircase and an elevator system serve for vertical access. A second escape route is ensured via an external emergency staircase. Except for the sanitary, kitchen and supply areas, which are to be equipped with tiles, all rooms are to receive a linoleum floor. The walls are to be executed either with a wooden surface or as a painted plasterboard wall. Acoustically effective Heraklith panels are mounted on the ceilings in the main rooms. Sanitary rooms are located on both the ground floor and the 1st floor. The building services equipment is to be reduced to the necessary minimum, while sufficient cooling/heating/ventilation must always be ensured. A supply with a heat pump, a PV system with storage function as well as a hot water supply through under-counter appliances is planned. The building must achieve at least an energy efficiency value of 40. Attention should be paid to the use of sustainable raw materials.