Nieper-Bau - Institute Building for Mechanical and Energy Engineering at HTWK, Leipzig

Object Type
Universities

Client
Staatsbetrieb Sächs. Immobilien- und Baumanagement (SIB), NL Leipzig II

Architects
AWB Architekten, Dresden

Completion
2015

Expertises
Thermal Insulation & Energy Performance Calculation
Building Acoustics
Sound Isolation
Construction Dynamics
Room Acoustics

The new six-storey institute building for the Faculty of Mechanical and Energy Engineering at Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (known as the NIEPER building) houses numerous seminar and practical rooms as well as a large experimental lecture hall for an audience of 180. The ground floor and basement house test stands and experimental workshops for operating the university's extensive machinery. Due to the strong focus on practice-oriented teaching, the user-specific equipment includes numerous functional models and test stands for heating and energy systems as well as ventilation, air-conditioning and sanitary systems.

One focus of the consultation was on the realization of an appropriately high level of sound insulation in the seminar rooms compared to the workshop and practical rooms, some of which are very noisy. In the large lecture hall, all room acoustics measures were optimized to ensure good speech intelligibility both for lectures and events in the room itself and for audio/video transmissions for e-learning via the Internet. Furthermore, the construction site, which is located on a busy street with a streetcar, was examined with regard to vibrations and electromagnetic interference fields and assessed for its suitability for the installation of highly sensitive measuring devices.

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