Industrial construction

Two things are referred to as industrial buildings:

• a building of a certain size that belongs to an industrial company and is mostly designed according to functional aspects . See also: industrial architecture
• Planning and construction of buildings and plants for industry. The client is a private industrial company that needs the building for its production. The main focus in industrial construction is on a construction method that meets the requirements of the builder resulting from his production process in the most economical way possible . In addition to the pure costs of building, the costs of management over the planned lifespan of the building are increasingly being taken into account ( life cycle management ). In addition to the production process, other requirements of the client may be relevant, for example environmental friendliness or representative purposes ( corporate design ) as well as external constraints such as official requirements and laws or other existing structures.

Common structures are production and assembly halls , plants for processing raw materials (e.g. chemicals, mining, heavy industry), factories with increased requirements for building services (e.g. clean room factories), but also office buildings and all other structures that are used for the use of the entire facility is required.

literature

• Peter Lorenz: Commercial building, industrial building. Architecture, planning, design . Koch, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 1991, ISBN 3-87422-612-3 .
• Markus Otto, Karl Plastrotmann, Lars Scharnholz, Ilija Vukorep: Industrial construction as a resource. 2nd edition, Jovis, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-939633-86-0 .
• Ingrid Ostermann: Factory Buildings of the Modern Movement - Different Kinds of (Constructive) Flexibility, Can They Meet the Expectations? (PDF). In: Karl-Eugen Kurrer , Werner Lorenz , Volker Wetzk (eds.): Proceedings of the Third International Congress on Construction History . Neunplus, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-936033-31-1 , pp. 1129-1137