Flexible stainless steel pipes for mobile day clinic
A new 'mobile' day clinic has been erected in Bad Säckingen, Germany, on the Upper Rhine. The reason the new addiction day clinic is designed to be moveable is because the operator, the Reichenau Psychiatric Centre ZfP, had to keep open the option of potentially relocating the entire facility. Consequently, a flexible, modular design was chosen. An entirely new approach to drinking water distribution was also employed, with the innovative Raxinox stainless steel piping system being installed in the new building. It is the first system to combine the flexibility of composite pipes with the high quality of stainless steel.
The clinic complex, comprising seven modules, and including all the building services, was fabricated at the factory of prefabricated house building specialist SchwörerHaus. The new 500 m² clinic was ready to move into just four weeks after delivery.
Ideal solution for prefabricated house building
The timber panel construction of the type used in the clinic modules demands that pipes be installed as safely, economically, space-savingly and easily as possible. That is why SchwörerHaus has for years been relying on dimensionally stable plastic piping systems from Viega: "It was over 15 years ago that we first installed the Sanfix Fosta system. The commercial benefits were so convincing that from then on we used it for all our drinking water and heating installations. And today we place the same trust in the Raxofix system," comments the SchwörerHaus installation manager. "Because Raxofix needs no O-rings, does not have to be calibrated, and possesses excellent flow characteristics. That makes installation and operation even more efficient."
However, in keeping with the high hygiene standards in the healthcare sector the ZfP Reichenau specified stainless steel for the drinking water installation. The timing turned out to be perfect, as in 2016 Viega had just launched Raxinox, an in-house development offering the world's only hand-bendable stainless steel piping system. So the complete drinking water installation at the new clinic was executed with Raxinox.