At Priedemann any project starts with the determination of the planning basis, with the facts, requirements and possibilities – no matter when we start and always together with everyone involved in the project

• What is the design concept?
• Which local standards apply?
• Urban planning requirements?

We design different variants based on the strategic objectives, we identify their advantages and disadvantages and keep on developing the preferred solution.

• Sketches of concepts drawn by hand
• Taking into account different options for materials and the construction
• Inclusion of structural and thermal loads
• Dependencies in the building structure are taken into consideration

Priedemann sees the implementation planning as a precise simulation of the construction process and the building – in detail, digitally and, depending on the complexity, as a 3-dimensional model.

• Guide-detail planning as CAD drawing on a scale of 1:1 with all connections to adjacent components
• Detailed representation of the layers, components and individual components of the facade solution supplemented by material descriptions and dimensioning

For tendering and awarding contracts Priedemann defines and specifies the planned facades and details as well as the connections to adjacent components.

• Summary of technical requirements as well as client and user specifications for construction and materials as “Technical Preliminary Remarks”.

The supervision of assembly and installation is particularly important for us, to ensure the agreed quality. Our principle is that deviations from the agreed planning must be identified at an early stage, documented and the implementation corrected. This controlling refers both to production and manufacturing as well as to the assembly on the building site:

• Verification of compliance with the approved design, ensuring compliance with the agreed qualities, standards and test series
• Regular reporting on production progress; the reports contain recommendations for possible improvements as well as a list of unfulfilled services, performance arrears, defects identified

Buildings, their functions and methods of construction and their technical systems are becoming increasingly complex. Standardised calculation methods are often no longer adequate to determine building physics values. Here Priedemann relies on various computer-based simulation tools. We feed our simulation programs with the planned overall concept consisting of building services, the building structure and the facades and climate data in order to determine the achievable comfort values according to ISO 7730 or the heating and cooling loads.

The absolute, relative (perceived) and maximum room air temperature or the maximum number of hours in which these values are exceeded are often the main factors.

The facade is the “face” of a building,a surface and a medium, which the building uses to communicate with its surroundings. The arrangement of open and closed surfaces, the materials used – all this reveals something about the interior life of a building and how it relates to its surroundings.

However, the metaphor of the “medium” can also be translated directly onto the facade by turning it into a “media facade”. Depending on the sharpness of detail and type of message, as well as the viewing distance, the facade surfaces differ in the size and number of pixels required. One of these pixels may be the size of a light-emitting diode or take up an entire facade or window element, depending on whether graphic animations, lifelike images, video sequences or texts are to be shown.