Sebastian Schmidt
FIXIT GRUPPE, Germany
Dr. rer. nat. Sebastian Schmidt, engineer and materials scientist. He has been working in the R&D department of the FIXIT GRUPPE as a project manager since 2020. His field of activity includes the supervision of Fixit 222 Aerogel high-performance insulating plaster, the development of new insulating plasters, testing and approval of building materials, the creation of environmental product declarations (EPDs) and participation in a committee on the topic of “recycling” of building materials.
The FIXIT GRUPPE has been in existence since September 2006 as the umbrella organisation for the five building material brands FIXIT, GREUTOL, HASIT, KREISEL and RÖFIX. With 67 locations in 18 European countries and around 2500 employees, the FIXIT GRUPPE is one of Europe’s leading system providers in the building materials sector.
At the end of 2021, the land area of the neighbourhood Novo Brdo measuring 4,8 ha witnessed finalization of the construction of 498 rental apartments, from 30 to 80 square metres each, in 18 buildings. This housing development is situated in Ljubljana Vič, between the Cesta na Vrhovce Road and Cesta na Brdo Road. The new neighbourhood consists of individual smaller buildings, the so called villa blocks and larger longitudinal blocks. The blocks are separated from each other and extend independently from North to South, they are divided by inner sidewalks and cycle tracks. These are higher standard buildings and flats providing a living space to a cohousing community of different generations. The well-being of the residents of this new neighbourhood will be provided by a safe open external area filled up with a new green system, playgrounds and connections with the existing green circle. Buildings all excel in high quality longlife facades, being carefully designed and professionally coordinated among the suppliers and contractors of individual construction elements, like facade components, insulation panel production, cladding installation, damp proofing installation and joint grouting. With the facade system StoneEtics ®50 of Röfix Slovenia, these buildings acquire aesthetic perfection, functionality and sustainability.
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Novo Brdo Neighbourhood
Architect: Dekleva Gregorič Architects
Size: 18 buildings
Facade: 25,000 m2 Röfix StoneEtics® and 8,000 m2 Röfix Etics
Photo: Matjaž Žnidaršič
The famous palace of Kazina, which was renovated at the end of 2021, shall be protected in future as an important local cultural monument. Proposal for Kazina being a local cultural monument was submitted by a group of conservators at the local unit of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia in Ljubljana. The »palace« represents one of some rarely preserved cases of a multipurpose public palace type, built in the first half of the 19th century, which already at that time was more than a meeting and association place. Actually, it became a true social forum of the nobility at first, and later of the townspeople as well. The Kazina Association had this building erected between 1835 and 1837, and its construction was led by the city master craftsman Venceslav Vadnav. In future, Kazina shall be entirely intended for the purposes of the Academy of Music. Reconstruction, that is renovation of the Kazina building was supervised by the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia and on renovation proposal of the materials supplier Röfix Slovenia. We, in the company of Röfix Slovenia, strongly believe that maintenance of such buildings is our highest priority, so that these buildings shall be saved for future generations as witnesses of time. We endeavour that the project work is not reconstruction-oriented only, but also directed towards preservation of the historical substance. Röfix Slovenia can offer to professional personnel a great variety of historical mortars, base and final renders as well as coating products for restoration of historical architectural surfaces, as this was the case with the renovated Kazina palace in Ljubljana.
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Kazina of Ljubljana
Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Organisational Unit Ljubljana
Size: 6,000 m2 indoors and 2,500 m2 facade
Renovation system: Röfix Slovenia
Photo: Matjaž Žnidaršič
