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Industrial hall

Exceptional in the truest sense of the word: The new brick industrial hall in Freital, Germany.

An exhibition and training hall in one: Variable heat with Fonterra Industry

The brick plant Freital Eder GmbH has constructed a far-from-ordinary industrial hall close to Dresden, Germany: The concrete frame is nogged with highly thermal insulating bricks from its own plant and the hall area is heated by means of component activation. After all, heat distribution via radiant heating in the concrete floor is the perfect complement to the client's efficiency demands and the changing usage profiles.

The hall is used at times to train trades people and at other times to exhibit the advantages offered by the company’s brick construction systems. However: If sample walls are constructed during training, the industry flooring is subjected to high isolated loading. The heating of the room which is up to three storeys high must accommodate this great variety.

Saves energy with every use

The bottom plate is used by the Fonterra Industry radiant heating and cooling system as a thermal storage mass. It ensures the floor surface temperature of 18°C as specified by the workplace directive over the entire surface area. This is more than sufficient for training sessions where trades people are physically active and produce brick walls. For other events, the inside temperature can be efficiently increased to a pleasant 20°C with a lead-in time of just one day. This comparatively low value is still ideal since, compared to ceiling heating, the radiant heat of a floor heating gets in direct contact with the body. As such, the temperature level in the hall can be around 2°C lower without comfort limitations in comparison with systems which have to heat up the entire air volume.

"Barrier-free" heat distribution

The unrestricted and flexible use of the floor area, right up to the outside walls, is of major importance at the Freital Eder brick plant. This is enabled by "barrier-free" heat distribution within the hall’s floor. And even high traffic loads do not impair industrial floor heating as these have already been taken into account in the structure of the floor design. 

Object Industrial hall
Location Freital, Germany
Year 2013
Object Type New building
Size 220 m2
Area of use Industry
Planning Lohse GmbH, Freital
Installation Lohse GmbH, Freital
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