Große Bockenheimer Straße 24
Location:
Frankfurt am Main
Completion:
2025
Große Bockenheimer Straße 24
Location Große Bockenheimer Straße 24 in Frankfurt am Main
Between the skyline and the old town, in the middle of the popular Fressgass' promenade in Frankfurt am Main, a new residential and commercial building with 15 apartments, two stores, a pub and restaurant and office space is being built following the demolition of the existing building.
The Große Bockenheimer Straße 24 project stands out with a high-quality perforated façade made of a natural stone curtain wall together with window elements and mullion/transom façade in combination with box-type windows on the south side facing Große Bockenheimer Straße.
The building has six full storeys and a staggered storey on the Fressgass side and five full storeys in the Meisengasse area. The entire building has a full basement with one storey containing utility and technical areas. On the roof of the lower part of the building facing Meisengasse, there are plans to install technical structures such as a heat pump.
The project is aiming for DGNB "Sustainable Building Site" certification from the German Sustainable Building Council.
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Characteristics
- Plot area (GF): approx. 700 m²
- Gross cubic capacity (BRI): 16,673 m³
- Gross floor area (GFA): 4,270 m²
- Above ground: 4 or 6 storeys
- Underground: basement
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Construction time
- Carcass work Est. 11/2023 to 06/2024
- Finishing work expected 05/2024 to 04/2025
- Overall completion 19.05.2025
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Construction site regular operation
- Monday to Friday, if necessary Saturday 07:00 to 17:00
- There is generally no work on Sundays and public holidays.
Certified by the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB)
Ed. Züblin AG is pursuing several goals with this project: A sustainable construction site organisation, the conservation of resources as well as the minimisation of emissions, responsibility for the health and well-being of the builders, the cultivation of good neighbourliness and, of course, high-quality construction. For this, Ed. Züblin AG was the first company to be recognised by the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB).
Here you can find more information about the DGNB system for sustainable construction sites: https://www.dgnb.de/en/certification/buildings/construction-site
Selected measures in the project
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Maximizing resource efficiency
- During the demolition of the existing building, extreme care is taken to separate the gutting materials and mineral demolition waste into their individual types. The demolition waste is transported to a local recycling center for reprocessing . A crushing and screening plant then extracts RC sand, RC mineral mix (0/45) and RC lumpy rubble (45/-X) from the recycling material.
- Wherever possible, materials are reused for the construction site equipment and shell construction: whether protecting the construction site equipment with second-hand plastic roadway panels, other consumables for the shell construction of construction projects in the immediate vicinity or reused office furniture.
- The extensive use of precast concrete elements (filigree slabs, cavity walls and stairs) means that a shorter construction time can be achieved. The volume of waste is also reduced thanks to the prefabricated orders, while transport and dust and noise pollution in the immediate vicinity are minimized.
- To ensure energy efficiency during the demolition and new construction phase, energy-saving LED lights will be used throughout the construction site (crane tower, excavation pit, container system).
The heat pump/heating center and the piping throughout the building will be completed as soon as possible to enable the building to be dried using final piping systems and to prevent the use of mobile heating/drying devices (oil heating).
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Measures to care for the neighborhood and surroundings
- The project is located in the city center of Frankfurt am Main. Suppliers and subcontractors are selected as sustainably and locally as possible. For example, the demolition company comes from Lahnau – where the mineral waste is also transported and recycled (see section on dismantling the existing building).
The concrete for the bored pile wall is supplied by Waibel from the east of Frankfurt. Shell accessories will be supplied from Offenbach or Gelnhausen.
In this respect, the impact of transportation to and from the construction site will be avoided or reduced as far as possible. - In order to be able to coordinate the concreting in the best possible way, the call-offs are made using a digital application. The delivery rates can be coordinated with the concrete pump, particularly for large-scale concreting, thus reducing the waiting times of the concrete mixers. Production times are optimized and noise emissions are reduced.
- The inner-city location requires a sensitive approach and increased communication with the surrounding neighborhood. Residents are regularly kept up to date via a digital newsletter and can get in touch with the site management if necessary via a "hotline". In addition, a comprehensive noise protection concept was developed to provide the neighborhood with the best possible protection against noise and dust.
- Furthermore, communication with the companies carrying out the work will always be multilingual via notices on the construction site notice board. In addition, waste containers will be labeled in several languages and stickered with sample photos. This eliminates misunderstandings in advance and prevents possible errors.
- A noise protection concept was drawn up to protect the adjacent office space, restaurants and apartments. This includes not only the use of low-noise construction machinery, but also the erection of several noise and dust protection scaffolds. Additional measuring points at several locations in the surrounding area record the construction noise and vibrations generated during the construction phases, thus enabling rapid intervention if limits are exceeded.
- The project is located in the city center of Frankfurt am Main. Suppliers and subcontractors are selected as sustainably and locally as possible. For example, the demolition company comes from Lahnau – where the mineral waste is also transported and recycled (see section on dismantling the existing building).
| Certification contact person | Verena Schirmer |
| Project contact | Dominik Bühler Lukas Klimavicius |
| Construction site address | Große Bockenheimer Straße 24 60313 Frankfurt am Main Phone +49 69 60608-1000 ZÜBLIN - Subdivison Central Turnkey Construction Unit 2 |
| Download | Press release |
| Link | DGNB: Certification |
