A modern, 7-storey glass building, the "New Podium", was erected behind the existing press building on Alexanderplatz according to the designs of the responsible office gmp - Gerkan, Marg und Partner.
AGC Interpane supplied the highly select solar control glazing for this building, while seele, the facade specialist from Gersthofen, was commissioned with the facade construction. Around 7000 square metres of double insulating glass made of 10 or 12 mm triple silver-coated ESG ipasol ultraselect 62/29 as the outer glass and LSG as the inner glass with Super Spacer T-Spacer SG as the warm edge.
Daniel Bruckelt, head of insulating glass production at AGC Interpane in Plattling, explains: "This glazing offers high daylight transmission with a low total energy transmittance as well as a particularly colour-neutral view and view-through from every angle."
Lots of model glass
The amount of model glass required for this building was relatively high, and the logistics were also a real challenge due to the timed delivery to the construction site. Daniel Bruckelt: "With the flexible Super Spacer, we were able to produce the insulating glass units, which measured up to 2.80 x 7.70 m and weighed 1600 kg, economically and on time on the automatic line, even with small batch sizes."
The ensemble is LEED Gold certified
"When building real estate portfolios, ESG criteria are becoming increasingly important - first and foremost, of course, with regard to the first letter E, which stands for Environment," explains Joachim Stoß of Edgetech: "A warm-edge spacer such as Super Spacer is the simplest means of thermally optimising insulating glass units, because the conductivity of the spacer in the edge seal is one of the decisive factors for the thermal insulation values of a window."
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And Stoß continues: "A rule of thumb says that a difference of 0.04 W/mK in the length-related heat transfer coefficient Psi is equivalent to an improvement of 0.1 W/m2K in the Uw value. The Super Spacer Premium achieves a Psi value of up to 0.028 W/mK, making it one of the most energy-efficient spacers on the market."
