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June 11th, 2025
kwa runs! Berliner Team Staffel 5x5

Working together in Tiergarten! 🌳

With team spirit and lots of energy, 10 colleagues from our office gave their all at the Berlin Team Relay 5×5 on June 3. Sunshine, good vibes, and a fantastic Berlin atmosphere were all part of the day!

Photos: André van Leth, Christian Dos Reis, Gözde Yildiz, Le Dieuly, Raffael Grimm, Vanessa Kucharski

posted by
Christian Dos Reis
June 6th, 2025
kwa in dialogue # Nina Kopmann

On 22 May, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Nina Kopmann was our guest in the “kwa in dialogue” series. As Professor for “Sustainable Building Energy Systems” in the “Smart Building Engineering” degree programme at Aachen University of Applied Sciences, she told us about current developments in the field of building simulation. How can planning be consistently user-centred and what potential lies in adaptive comfort models were the initial questions.

Many thanks to Nina Kopmann for the many new insights! We are very much looking forward to the in-depth discussion in a few months’ time.

‘kwa in dialogue’ is a series of discussions with which we maintain the cross-project and cross-topic discourse of our 160 employees across the various locations. It serves as a stimulating and productive exchange of knowledge and experience – both within and outside the office, between experts from other disciplines and employees, between different projects as well as different planning phases, and is both knowledge transfer and self-reflection.

May 21st, 2025
Austrian Steel Construction Award: Recognition for HELIX

At the Austrian Steel Construction Awards in Graz at the beginning of May, the HELIX office and hotel building designed by kadawittfeldarchitektur received recognition in the category “Lightness with Steel”. ‘The architectural concept of “lifting” a three-storey structure off the ground is achieved with an elegant steel construction that shimmers through the glass façade,’ said the jury. The prize is awarded every two years. One of its aims is to document the architectural and technical potential of steel construction by honouring outstanding and innovative projects. The structural design of the building was carried out by @Herbrich Consult ZT GmbH, and the steel construction by @Metallica Stahl- und Fassadentechnik GmbH. The client was Planquadr.at Europastraße GmbH & Co.KG.

HELIX is located in Salzburg near the A1 motorway and is characterised by three ring-shaped upper floors that appear to float above a base. A large open staircase leads to the prestigious “bel Ă©tage”, which will become a central meeting place with a hotel and office lobby as well as restaurants. The ring-shaped structure above creates a surrounding image that is visible from the motorway. Offices and hotel rooms are located on the upper floors and offer a 360° view of Salzburg and the inner garden.

The ‘floating ring complex’, constructed as a steel composite structure, rests on the reinforced concrete structure of the lower floors. The ring structure consists of three-storey trusses on the inner and outer façades, which rest indirectly on four stair cores and one inclined support at each of the ‘pointed ends’. In the cross-section of the ring structure, the ceilings are supported by composite beams spanning three storeys between the half-timbered structures. The choice of a composite construction resulted in a significant reduction in weight compared to solid construction methods, which enabled pile-free foundations.

Image: ©Herbrich Consult

posted by
Lysanne Ohm
May 20th, 2025
Table tennis on the museum roof

Since the beginning of May, when the weather is good, visitors can play table tennis on the roof of Grimmwelt. Everyone is welcome – a museum ticket is not required. Rackets and balls are also available for loan from the museum.

With this offer, the museum is taking advantage of the potential of its publicly accessible, multifunctional roof and opening itself up even more to the people of Kassel.

Project information about Grimmwelt can be found here.

Picture: ©Andreas Horsky

posted by
Sophia Scholz