Lamberts glass factory

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Lamberts glass factory

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1887
Seat Wunsiedel, Germany
management Christoph Lamberts
Number of employees about 150
Branch Glass industry
Website www.lamberts.info
Status: 2019

The Lamberts glass factory was founded in 1887 by Laurenz Lamberts and is now a family business in the fourth generation. The glassworks is the only non-group glass factory in the world that produces all four types of cast glass. According to its own statements, Lamberts is the only glass factory in Germany and Europe that produces profiled glass in all production steps within Europe. The company headquarters and production facility is Holenbrunn , a district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge .

Company founder Laurenz Lamberts
The glass factory in 1887
Production hall of the glass factory today
Aerial view of the company premises in Wunsiedel

history

Laurenz Lamberts bought the company premises on May 23, 1887, and the company was founded in the same year. The choice of Wunsiedel was not an arbitrary one. Reasons for the location were, on the one hand, the regionally available raw materials . Even today, the resources used for production come directly from the region. The second important reason was the expansion of the Weiden – Oberkotzau railway line and the connection from Holenbrunn. The station was essential for the company for the transport of glass products.

production

The glass factory produces Lamberts profile glass is the only group of unbound cast glass producer, patterned glass, wired glass and antimony-free solar glass .

Since 1996 and still the only architectural glass manufacturer, all glasses have been manufactured with the help of an oxygen-fired glass melting furnace and sold as EcoGlass . Thanks to optimized production processes, up to 50% old glass is used in the glasses and 100% of the glass scrap is recycled. The company is constantly working to further reduce CO 2 emissions. Since 2011, the entire production and administration have been operated entirely with green electricity from Bavarian run-of-river power plants . An environmental product declaration is provided for all glass products .

Projects

World-renowned architecture firms plan with Lamberts Glass. In particular, the profiled glass LINIT U-Glas is used in numerous architectural projects around the globe, including museums, theaters, shopping centers, hospitals, office buildings and sports stadiums, such as:

Honors

Association price Project
Glass Association of North America Design in Glass Awards 2007 (Tempered Glass Division) Civic Center Parking, Santa Monica, California, USA
Time Magazine No.1 of the 10 Best Architectural Marvels of 2007 Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art , Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Leading European Architects Forum LEAF New Built Award 2007 Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art , Kansas City, Missouri, USA
AIA - American Institute of Architects AIA Institute Honor Award for Architecture 2008 Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
AIA - American Institute of Architects AIA Institute Honor Award for Architecture 2008 Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art , Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Leading European Architects Forum LEAF Awards 2016 Overall Winner Sainsbury Wellcome Center for Neural Circuits and Behavior, London, England
Leading European Architects Forum LEAF Public Building of the Year Award 2016 Faculty of Fine Arts, La Laguna University , Tenerife, Spain
Leading European Architects Forum LEAF Best Façade Design Engineering Award 2016 Sainsbury Wellcome Center for Neural Circuits and Behavior, London, England
British Construction Industry Award Major Building Project of the Year (> £ 50m) 2016 Sainsbury Wellcome Center for Neural Circuits and Behavior, London, England
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors RICS Project of the Year Award 2017 Sainsbury Wellcome Center for Neural Circuits and Behavior, London, England
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors RICS Design through Innovation Award 2017 Sainsbury Wellcome Center for Neural Circuits and Behavior, London, England

Web links

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ Hartmut Heller: Excursions in Franconia and Upper Palatinate. Self-published by the Geographical Institute of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , 1971, p. 347
  4. ^ Bendheim Wall Systems Inc .: Wall Systems: Lamberts LINIT Channel Glass , page 2, PDF accessed on February 19, 2020
  5. ↑ lamberts.info/company
  6. ↑ Stylepark magazine: LINIT P26 / 60/7, solar, tough, matt , accessed on February 17, 2020
  7. ^ Bendheim Wall Systems Inc .: Wall Systems: Lamberts LINIT Channel Glass , page 20, PDF accessed on February 19, 2020
  8. ↑ Heinze: Company portrait: Lamberts glass factory , accessed on February 18, 2020
  9. ^ Stadtwerke Wunsiedel: Der Wunsiedler Weg: Smart Energy City WUNsiedel , published by SWW Wunsiedel GmbH , 2012, page 32 ff., PDF accessed on February 18, 2020
  10. ↑ lamberts.info/ecoglass
  11. ↑ Sheila Kim, Azure Magazine: Manhattan's Pier 17 Gets an “Anti-Mall” with a Gorgeous Glass Facade , accessed February 17, 2020
  12. ↑ Richard Lacayo, Time Magazine: The 10 Best (New and Upcoming) Architectural Marvels , accessed February 17, 2020
  13. ↑ designbuild-network.com: LEAF Awards 2007 Winners , accessed on February 17, 2020
  14. ↑ James Murdock, Architectural Record: AIA Names Winners of 2008 Honor Awards , accessed February 17, 2020
  15. ↑ James Murdock, Architectural Record: AIA Names Winners of 2008 Honor Awards , accessed February 17, 2020
  16. ↑ Patrick Lynch, Arch Daily: 2016 LEAF Awards Announced , accessed February 17, 2020
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  18. ↑ Patrick Lynch, Arch Daily: 2016 LEAF Awards Announced , accessed February 17, 2020
  19. ↑ British Construction Industry Awards: 2016 winners | British Construction Industry Awards , accessed February 17, 2020
  20. ^ Sainsbury Wellcome Center for Neural Circuits and Behavior: SWC wins Project of the Year , accessed February 17, 2020
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