Capital Square, Budapest
HOCHTIEF Development
Hungary
Owner / Developer
HOCHTIEF Development
Hungary
Architect
Finta Studio
Building Function
Office
Status
Completed 06/2009
approx. 18.400 m²
Height
approx. 40 m
Technical Features
- Rain screen, glass
- Stick system facade
- Terracotta facade
- Ribbon windows
- Punch windows
- External sunshade, brise-soleil
We provided
Consultancy
Sound facade decisions start with a clear understanding of the project’s starting point.
- Priedemann organises the available project information, design intent, use, and facade-related technical and external requirements.
- Together with the project participants, objectives, priorities, constraints and unresolved questions are made visible.
- This creates a reliable basis for the next design steps and for decisions before the facade concept is developed in greater detail.
- Priedemann identifies and structures the project information, requirements, objectives and constraints relevant to facade planning.
- These may include design intent, use, technical and energy-related requirements, local conditions, and quality, cost and programme objectives.
- Unresolved questions, dependencies and competing priorities are made explicit and translated into clear decision criteria.
- This creates a reliable basis for early facade design and subsequent planning.
- The subjects reviewed and documented depend on the project stage and agreed scope.
Decision criteria and priorities
- Not every facade requirement has the same priority within a project.
- Design intent, use, technical requirements, local conditions, quality, cost and programme objectives can influence one another.
- Establishing the project basis therefore also means structuring these requirements and making potential conflicts visible.
- The resulting criteria provide a shared basis against which later options and decisions can be assessed consistently.
During technical tender evaluation, Priedemann compares submitted facade bids with the previously defined requirements and tender documents.
- The review can cover technical content, qualification evidence, bidder alternatives, proposed systems and identifiable deviations.
- Unresolved points are structured for tender interviews and the findings are documented clearly.
- Price-related or commercial assessment is included only where it is expressly part of the appointment.
- During technical tender evaluation, Priedemann compares facade bids with the defined requirements and tender documentation.
- The review may consider technical completeness, qualifications, proposed systems and materials, bidder alternatives, and identifiable deviations or risks.
- Findings are documented clearly and can provide technical support during tender interviews.
- Price comparison, commercial review and the final award decision form part of the service only where expressly agreed.
After a facade manufacturer is appointed, Priedemann reviews its shop drawings, system planning and technical submittals against the agreed design basis.
- This includes comparison with project changes, assessment of structural assumptions and energy/acoustic performance values, and review of technical data sheets for materials and components.
- Priedemann comments on discrepancies and coordinates change management as the facade contact point for the planning team.
- Priedemann reviews the contractor’s shop-drawing information against the agreed requirements and released design basis.
- Depending on the appointment, the review covers system components, details, interfaces, technical assumptions, materials and relevant performance data.
- Deviations and unresolved questions are documented and coordinated with the design team.
- In this way, the review supports technical quality assurance and makes required decisions visible early.
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:
Regular inspection of production and assembly in the factory- 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
- Verification of compliance with the approved design, ensuring compliance with the agreed qualities, standards and test series
- Inspection of examples of facade sections as reference values for determining the quality of workmanship – benchmark inspections
- Involvement in performance tests on the facade on the building site (water impermeability, sound insulation, blower door test, etc.)
- Random inspection of the installation work on the building site
- Regular reporting on the installation work including the identification of discrepancies with the original planning
Value Engineering is part of the Priedemann DNA. We ask about the motives and objectives of a project: Which functions should the facade fulfill, which requirements? What is the design requirement? Based on this, we develop alternatives and evaluate these options with regard to any possible improvements that can be made to the overall solution. At the same time, we take into account the criteria of the entire building life cycle.
The aim is to provide a transparent basis for making decisions in order to make them easier for our clients. This minimizes risks, bad planning and poor decisions. Simultaneously we improve the calculability of the overall project and save time in planning and execution. We see value engineering as a fundamental component in overall planning which helps optimize all processes and procedures.
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