Karl Köhler GmbH, Besigheim

Karl Köhler GmbH has completed construction of its office extension at its company headquarters in Besigheim. The new building also offers an event room, a rooftop terrace and underground parking in addition to new offices. It is connected to the old structure by a bridge. The materials used were drawn from those locally available in the region: exposed concrete with limestone aggregates, flooring made from local natural stone on the ground floor, oak window frames and parquet, glass partitions in the corridors. The goal was to realise an environmentally-friendly and resource-efficient building with regenerative heating and cooling – a building in which the NauticProfil® Nova-2 LED lamps by FLASHAAR® play an important role as they offer maintenance-free life spans of 50,000 hours at lowest energy consumption and so constituted the optimum choice for the project.

Country

Germany

Year

2014

State-of-the-Art Lightning for the "Alte Brücke" Heidelberg

Since 2008, the “Alte Brücke” in Heidelberg is brightly illuminated every evening. Modern LED contour lighting highlights the classic shape and ensures a homogeneous illumination of the parapet. This bridge is world-famous: The “Alte Brücke” spans the Neckar River in Heidelberg. The bridge with the official name “Karl-Theodor-Brücke” connects the old part of town with the opposite shore. Besides the castle, this bridge, constructed in 1788 during the reign of Elector Karl Theodor, is one of the most famous landmarks in Heidelberg. The bridge has a length of 200 metres and consists of nine barrel vaults with spans between 8 and 22 metres. The bridge consists of quarrystone with an ashlar revetment made of red sandstone. It is one of the last great examples of classic bridge construction art before the new material cast iron became predominant in the 19th century, and before bridge construction became a pure engineering task.

Country

Germany

Year

2008