- Products
- Service
- Expertise
- Learning Center
- fischer group
- Press Releases
- References
- Home
- References
- Secure hold for a harmonious facade
The project "Student Activities and Athletic Facilities (SAAF)" comprises ten buildings on a developed area of more than 200,000 square meters. They include sports and recreational facilities for students from all faculties with a capacity for around 40,000 people. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) from the USA were the design architects. They collaborated with Gulf Consult (GC) from Kuwait, the engineering firm for the project.
The centrepiece of the site consists of two six-storey main buildings, each an "Athletic, Recreation and Aquatic Centre (ARAQ)" for men and women. They house centres for competitive, recreational, and aquatic sports as well as parts of the student services. A courtyard physically divides the women's and men's sides, each offering the same facilities and scope. The project also includes two smaller sports facilities, two information points, the headquarters of the student services, a bus stop for campus transport, a tennis hall with 2,000 seats, and an outdoor football and athletics stadium with a capacity for 15,000 spectators.
A sand-lime brick facade gives the main buildings (ARAQ) a noble and natural appearance. Characteristic are the triangular windows, which are arranged modularly and according to the orientation of the sun. Part of the approximately 75,000 square meter facade was fixed with 15,000 FZP II M8i internal thread anchors. The execution of the facade started in 2019 and was successfully completed at the beginning of 2020.
„We convinced the facade builders with our comprehensive technical support from planning and calculation to on-site assistance during execution,“ emphasizes Jan Zimmermann, Market Manager Facade Systems. „In addition, the advantages of our Zykon panel anchors speak for themselves.“ The FZP II are fixed form-fitting and completely expansion-pressure-free in the conically undercut drilled hole in the natural stone. This technique ensures lower panel bending moments than with edge fixings. Compared to alternative solutions, higher load capacities are also achieved.
Our undercut anchors are designed to be invisible even in the joint pattern, contributing to a high-quality and harmonious facade appearance. This way, they combine secure anchorage with the high aesthetic demands of the facades of the ARAQ centres.
