Dyckerhoff delivers CO₂-reduced ECODUR concrete

‘TIDE’ – a reference to the dynamics of the water – is the name of the new residential neighborhood that will form the eastern end of Hamburg's HafenCity. The centerpiece of this quarter, which will house a total of around 600 rental and owner-occupied flats as well as several penthouses, is the building on construction section 115: more than 260 publicly subsidized flats and shared apartments for around 370 students and trainees and the UBS Digital Art Museum, which is unique in Europe, will be housed in the new building, for which Dyckerhoff is supplying the concrete. Both organizations are also the clients of the project.

The Wilhelmsburg plant of Dyckerhoff’s concrete branch Hamburg is supplying a total of 14,500 m³ of ready-mixed concrete. 10,500 m³ of this will be ECODUR 40. This level-2 concrete, certified according to the CO₂ module of the Concrete Sustainability Council (CSC), has a CO₂ footprint that is at least 40 % lower than the industry reference value. The basis for its production is a blast furnace cement CEM III/A 42.5 N-LH (na). With the ECODUR product line, Dyckerhoff Concrete has been offering a transparent range of verifiably CO₂-reduced concretes since beginning of 2024. These concretes are suitable for a wide range of applications and fulfil different CO₂ reduction requirements. All ECODUR concretes are provided by plants that are certified under the CSC CO₂ module and can reliably produce concretes with an optimized CO₂ footprint.

The remaining 4,000 cubic meters are produced in a blend of the aforementioned blast furnace cement and the Portland composite cement CEM II/B-M(V-LL) 32.5 R-AZ. Both cements are delivered by rail from the Dyckerhoff cement plant in Deuna (Thuringia) to the company's own dispatch terminal.

HafenCity was founded in 2008 as an official city district on the site of the now defunct free port. The planning and construction of mainly residential and office buildings as well as the new HafenCity University Hamburg have made the district one of the largest inner-city urban development projects in Europe. More than 7,000 people currently live in the area and the number of residents is expected to roughly double by the early 2030s.

The ground-breaking ceremony and thus the start of construction of the TIDE project was in September 2023. The museum is scheduled for completion by the end of 2025 and the student residence by the 2026/2027 winter semester. Berlin-based architects Heide & von Beckerath focused on harmonizing people and nature in their planning. This also applies to the location: Elbpark Altenwerder, Baakenpark, Lohsepark, the Norderelbe and the Elbdeich recreational area are all in the immediate vicinity. The construction section supplied by Dyckerhoff is being realized by the company MBN GmbH from Georgsmarienhütte in Lower Saxony.

Photos: Cover picture UBS Digital Art Museum; Slideshow 1 Heide & von Beckerath; 2 Thorsten Bauer; 3-6 UBS Digital Art Museum

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