HAMBURG / Germany Westfield Hamburg Überseequartier a challenging project

Cosmopolitan, open and urban – Westfield Hamburg-Überseequartier is a one-of-a-kind place. Designed as an integrated district and central part of the HafenCity in Hamburg, it connects places to live and work with attractive cultural offers and leisure facilities as well as innovative retail and entertainment concepts. An additional highlight will be the state-of-the-art cruise terminal.

The right design - Architects and Engineers

14 renowned architects – from Düsseldorf to Amsterdam to France – came together to work on the master plan for one of the most exciting inner-city projects in Europe, with the goal to make Hamburg-Überseequartier as exciting and unique as possible. As Hamburg’s new gateway to the world, the vibrant district wants to come across as decidedly cosmopolitan, open-minded and diverse.

The right below grade waterproofing design

NIK Ing-SV-Büro GmbH has received 2018 the contract for the structural waterproofing design and for the site supervision of the waterproofing execution for the large project Westfield Hamburg-Überseequartier in Hamburg/Germany.

Dipl.-Ing. Götz Rieber (CEO of NIK Ing-SV-Büro GmbH) and his team of high qualified engineers, waterproofing designers, concrete technologists are proud being involved in such a prestigious project with many waterproofing challenges.

The waterproofing design is a combination of watertight concrete (Type B) and membrane waterproofing (Type A) on the waterside.

The waterproofing design is always individual object related and in this project there is a combination of geosynthetic clay liner and a PE-laminated PP-woven (reinforced PE-membrane) (= double sealing system) and a high quality watertight concrete structure including all waterproofing related components.

CEMtobent CS -the chosen system- is radon gas tight, very robust and has a very special rain-protection function. The system has references such as the Wankdorf Stadion Bern (Stade de Swisse), Central Station "Löwenstrasse" Zürich, B10 Tunnel Pragsattel Stuttgart, Stuttgart S21 Tiefbahnhof / Central Station and many many more references.....

The Company CEMproof Sealing Components GmbH (www.cemproof.com) is delivering all waterproofing related products into the project Westfield Hamburg-Überseequartier. Georg Napravnik a well experienced waterproofing spezialist with more than 30 years experience in the concrete construction business is responsible to supply the best suitable waterproofing systems and waterproofing components. The Westfield Hamburg-Überseequartier is not his first project in northern Germany Hamburg - and he points out - if you build in Hamburg you build into water.

Many thanks to the investor and project developper Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield for the great support in supplying us with this outstanding "renderings" of this project.