| Location: |
Weiden |
| Type: |
new building |
| Description: |
construction of new facilities for the conversion, maintenance and fabrication of passenger carriages and locomotives on the site of the former waggon-reparation-plant of the DB;
the central part of the site is a large, column-free production hall, where the waggons can be moved with an air cushion system;
in addition, several administration and service buildings have been erected. |
| Size: |
production hall: approx. 72 x 96 m (ca. 6.900 m²);
cubic content: approx. 200.000 m³ altogether |
| Structures: |
production hall
roof: steel, 3-chord girders and flat roof segments
columns: reinforced concrete, fixed in sleeve foundations
floor slab: reinforced concrete, centrically pre-stressed
other buildings
mainly reinforced concrete (in-situ and precast)
in some parts also brickwork and steel |
| Services: |
structural implementation design |
| Special features: |
column-free roofing of the production hall (72 m span)
expandability lengthwise
impact of a 40-tons-waggon as special load condition
floor slab as even, jointless and free of cracks as possible |
| Client: |
Planungs- und Produktionsgesellschaft PFA mbH |
| Architecture: |
Planungsbüro Dipl.-Ing. Peter Schuck, Munich |
| Struct. analysis: |
Ingenieurbüro G. Kuchler, Munich |
| Techn. facilities: |
SMW Planungsgesellschaft mbH |
| Transportation: |
DELU Deutsche Luftkissentransportsysteme, Nuremberg |
