Flexwell-Project Berlin-Buch 2019 Case Study
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Flexwell-project Berlin-Buch 2019 Case Study Location Product D- Berlin-Buch FLEXWELL FHK 147/220, DN 125 820 m 19 / pictures by BRUGG by 19 / pictures / Flexwell-project Berlin-Buch 2019 EN / 12 Case Study Project The building project Carrying out the work At the beginning of November 2019, FLEX- Our customer, Vattenfall Wärme Berlin AG, On 4 November, 2 drums each holding 410 WELL district heating cables were laid in had to establish a 400 m long connection to m of FLEXWELL district heating cable FHK Berlin-Buch, which was unusual for us. the existing district heating network in order 147/220, DN 125 were delivered to Berlin- Only a few, long-standing employees remem- to connect the residential area called „Allees Buch by flatbed truck. The drums were bered a building project more than 20 years des Chateaux“. The quarter is located in the unloaded by crane and then lifted into our ago in Potsdam, where FLEXWELL district local recreation area of Barnim which borders drum trailer. Then the pipe was then pulled heating cable 147/220 had already been laid Berlin to the north-east. off along the future route and laid out. using the cable ploughing method. After consultation with the Berlin Forests This type of installation is particularly suitable Authority and the Environmental Office in The plough arrived on 6 November and for longer distances between residential Pankow, the route was selected to run under started work early on 7 November. Ploughing areas, it is particularly fast and environmen- the Buch Forest. in of the FLEXWELL district heating cables tally friendly. The decision was made in favour of totalling 820 m in length was completed Understandably, this requires unpaved areas FLEXWELL district heating cables and the without any problems within only one day. that are hardly to be found in the urban environmentally friendly ploughing method. environment. FLEXWELL was chosen because the pipe is While the ploughing method is quite common available in a complete length of 410 m and for laying cables of all kinds, cable protection neither socket connections nor expansion pipes, drinking water, wastewater and gas absorption measures would be necessary lines, it is rarely used in the area of district along the route. In addition to the short laying heating. time, other factors in favour of the ploughing method were the lack of topsoil removal and only little soil compaction. In order to protect the standing trees, the BRUGG Rohrsysteme GmbH lines were to be laid underneath a forest path Adolf-Oesterheld-Straße 31 which is already intended for reconsolidation. Photos X21.de – Reiner Freese D-31515 Wunstorf phone +49 (0)50 31 170-0 fax +49 (0)50 31 170-170 [email protected] www.brugg.de A company of the BRUGG Group.