Germany – Architectural, engineering and surveying services – Objektplanung für den Neubau der Nachmittagsbetreuung an der Bismarckschule in Friedrichsthal

Due to the Daycare 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 year, so that by August 2029, every primary school child in grades one to four can be cared for full-time. According to the current school development planning of the city of Friedrichsthal, as well as the forecast figures of the Ministry of Education, an average of around 230 pupils is expected. If the facility is used by two-thirds (realistic utilisation rate) of the pupils daily until 17:00 ("long group"), 6 group rooms will be 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 general 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 educational standards. The following space programme resulted from the funding guidelines of the Investment Programme for Full-Day Expansion (Ministry for Education and Culture): 6 group rooms, 1 dining room (meals in two meal rounds), 1 kitchen, 4 WC (girls, boys, disabled, staff), 1 FGTS team room, 1 school social work, 1 caretaker, 1 first aid, 1 technical room, storage rooms. The two-storey building is to be equipped with a lift 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 programme BAUSTEIN of the Ministry of the Interior, Building and Sport from 05.03.2024. Energy 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. The creation of a HU-building is required for inclusion in the above-mentioned funding programmes. According to the funding guidelines, the project must be completed by 31.12.2029. All final accounts and all trades must be settled by this date. A new building is planned to accommodate the afternoon care for the Bismarckschule. For this purpose, planners are being sought to provide the following services: building design (subject of the current tender) as well as further EU-wide tenders for structural design 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 date. To further specify the project, phases 1-3 have already been created. The prepared planning documents are part of the viewable tender documents (plans, attachments). A two-storey flat-roof building with extensive roof greening, a PV system and a heat pump on the roof is planned. The foundations are to be provided as individual or strip foundations (depending on the load-bearing capacity of the soil). The building structure is to be constructed in timber-frame construction, with the floor slabs to be constructed in a hybrid timber-concrete construction. The façade is planned as a coloured timber façade made of local larch/pine wood as a vertical floor covering (or similar). The floor-to-ceiling windows and doors are to be designed as wood-aluminium elements in the façade 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 on the façade. The ground floor contains a large dining hall with a kitchen as a communal "main room". The room programme on the ground floor is supplemented by further group rooms, which are dimensioned in such a way 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 individual care and counselling. The large community room can be converted into rooms for groups or as classrooms through flexible partition walls. A wooden staircase and a lift system serve for vertical access. A second escape route is ensured via an external escape staircase. Apart from 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 designed 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 adequate cooling/heating/ventilation must always be guaranteed. 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.