Build Architecture Awards 2016

2016 Architecture Awards Build 99 Company: RMA Reichardt Maas Associates, Architects and Engineers GmbH & Co. KG Name: Professor Juergen Reichardt Email: [email protected] Web Address: [email protected] Address: Kaninenberghöhe 2, 45136 Essen, Germany Telephone: 0049 (0) 201 4375377-0 MA Reichardt Maas Associates work for a wide variety of clients, with one key current project being the design food facilities for Europe scale No.1 discount chain. The key challenges on this project are “matching” precision of process, utilities and archi- tectural projects, in terms of overall quality, cost and time schedules. The German architecture industry today is still ruled by traditional “stone by stone” building techniques. Performance thinking, BIM technologies, sustainability, changeability only slowly penetrate from “outside”, more than renovating the business from “inside” in terms of an urgently needed active development. Juergen explains how his firm works to ensure it is the very best in the industry, innovating and supporting clients in equal measure to ensure they are the best in the industry. “Often when working with our competitors clients find that basic key issues are often neglected because of poor communication with the client, in order to sort out the specific targets of overall project. To avoid this, we have developed RMA programming tool GENEering™ and engineering tool SYNFAP® for benchmarking and synchronizing diverse project targets and engineering requirements. “As a firm we are quite proud having winning over a period of 20 years’ dozens of architectural and engineering awards, besides being able publishing some basic engineering tools e.g. worldwide distributed Handbook of Factory Planning. Our clients appreciate overall project success, based on constant RMA research, as well as international approach beyond territorial borders.” One of the firm’s recent successful projects was its work to make Peter’s Bakery in Essen more sustainable, as Juergen is eager to emphasise. “The concept of the project at Peter’s Bakery was to make the building sus- tainable through the use of the renewable material such as wood in structure, shell and roof. The application of highly innovative, energy-efficient technology for baking and cooling, and the world’s premier of cooling equipment which works without environmental harmful refrigerants were used in order to make this a truly unique and ground breaking project.” As his final comment Juergen describes a number of projects the firm has coming up which will secure its future and cement its representation as one of the best architectural companies in Germany. “Looking ahead, our key focus is on steel structures for adaptive multisto- ry offices and apartments, as well as comprehensive BIM strategies for manufacture process flow, building and utilities. I believe BIM will become increasingly important in the future, and as such we are keen to continue pioneering this technique.” RMA Reichardt Maas Associates Award for Excellence in Form & Structure - Germany RMA Reichardt Maas Associates operates in Essen, Germany, and Bangalore, India, creating performance based architectural and engineering solutions for holistic design tasks. We invited Professor Juergen Reichardt to tell us more. R AR160086