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Cardio CliniC, Germany

Project challenges

On an approximately 17 000 m2 area in Hamburg Eimsbüttel the new shared hospital of Diakonie Hospital Hamburg and Cardio CliniC Hamburg is being constructed. The complex houses approximately 385 beds and includes approximately 32 000 m2 gross floor area. Furthermore, there are going to be a daycare and sport facilities. The former hospital sites will be abandoned.

With the construction of this clinic complex, Hamburg continues to be a nationwide renowned centre for health and medicine. The city of Hamburg has been investing large sums in recent years and thus underlines the importance of the healthcare industry as an economic factor as well as a social one.

Insight onsite™

In the construction of the CardioCliniC in Hamburg, TOPMAX, the world's very first table form with a new maintenance-free flat steel frame and plastic ply more than met expectations: reduced transport and handling, lower labour costs through faster transfer/ relocation times, high-grade concrete surfaces thanks to the plastic ply, minimum time spent on cleaning and repair work. At 0.16 h/m², shuttering times were very short.

Some 15,000 m² of slab surfaces were shuttered extremely quickly and efficiently. Thanks to the simple connection of TOPMAX table forms with RASTO-TAKKO, infill areas were shuttered efficiently almost without any need for special solutions. Even combined with H 20 special tables in the peripheral areas of the lower storeys, with their oversized joists, the system proved its efficiency. The 13 m² and 10 m² TOPMAX tables with their only 12 cm tall allround perforated steel borders (hot-dip galvanized and powder coated) were transported and stored with minimum space requirements. The Europlusnew props with the special folding head (180 degree articulation) and self-securing bolts and locking mechanism ensured swift erection and dismantling. To facilitate rapid erection and relocation of the tables, an electric carriage was used on the site; this impressed the contractors with its vast vertical flexibility. Assisting the tables in their storey-to-storey climb was the crane-operated TOPMAX transfer fork with a capacity of 1,250 kg.