Vector Foiltec

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Vector Foiltec Group
parent company: Vector Foiltec GmbH, Bremen
legal form Parent company: GmbH
founding 1982 in Germany
Seat Parent company: Steinacker 3, 28717 Bremen, Germany
management Managing directors of the parent company:
Philipp Lehnert, Christian Röpke
Number of employees approx. 300 worldwide (as of 2019)
approx. 80 at the parent company in Bremen (as of 2019)
sales over 50 million EUR (2008 worldwide)
Branch Construction industry (execution of film structures as building envelopes)
Website www.vector-foiltec.com

The Vector Foiltec Group is an international company in innovative building with foil constructions for roofs and facades. The parent company, Vector Foiltec GmbH (formerly: Foiltec GmbH ) is based in Bremen .

The Vector Foiltec Group is the world market leader in the construction of large-area and translucent building envelopes made of film structures and serves around 90 percent of the world market.

history

The parent company was founded in 1982 in Bremen- Lesum . The group of companies has offices in 14 countries in America , Europe , the Middle East , Russia , Australia and Asia and employs a total of around 300 people. The company's planning offices are located in Bremen, London , Beijing , New York and Melbourne . There are two production facilities for the manufacture of the building envelope elements, one in Bremen and one in Beijing.

The company has completed over 1500 construction projects. It became known worldwide for its participation in the construction of the Eden Project , a botanical garden that opened in Cornwall , England in 2001 . The translucent roofing of the geodesic domes was done with double-walled cushions made of ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) films. The Beijing National Swimming Center , which was built for the 2008 Summer Olympics , was the largest and most technologically difficult order to date. The honeycomb structure of the outer skin and the roof was equipped with more than 3500 foil elements onto which videos can be projected, and with 100,000 m² it is the largest foil structure in the world. Under the flexipix brand, film cushions with integrated large displays were sometimes manufactured as media façades for buildings.

The projects implemented include botanical gardens, zoos and covered water amusement parks; Office, exhibition, school, administrative and residential buildings; Sports and leisure facilities; as well as commercial and traffic structures.

In 2008 the company was awarded an entrepreneur of the year award in Bremen.

Services

The company offers project management and engineering services for development and construction for the use of pneumatically stabilized, transparent film constructions in architecture and construction technology . The company offers all services from conception, planning and implementation to facility management strategies (plant management), conception and construction of supporting structures.

The film constructions developed by Vector Foiltec are made with ETFE fluoroplastic films, which are considered to be very durable because they are not attacked by sunlight or air pollution . The film elements are self-cleaning because of their very smooth surface, as dirt is washed off by rain. The films can be made transparent for UV radiation . The membrane structure with the pressurized air cushions between the individual layers has a heat-insulating effect and enables ecologically oriented building envelopes.

The architecture system developed by Vector Foiltec is sold under the Texlon brand .

Realized projects (selection)

  • Geodesic domes of the Eden Project in Cornwall - exterior view

  • Interior view of the domes of the Eden Project

  • Beijing National Swimming Center - exterior view

  • Swimming center under construction - the foil elements are clearly visible

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "Innovations made in Germany: soap bubbles that last" ; Report on the company Vector Foiltec in the customer magazine of Sparkasse Bremen , Girex Press , issue Jan. to March 2009, pp. 16-17.
  2. ↑ a b “Visionary Constructs from Bremen-Lesum. Vector Foiltec bosses are 'Entrepreneur of the Year' ” ; Report by Reinhard Wirtz in the Weser-Kurier on May 9, 2008 ( PDF scan of the article; accessed on January 28, 2009).
  3. ↑ Flexipix Media Architecture. Retrieved May 25, 2015 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 21 ″  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 4.9 ″  E