Refurbishment & Modernisation
Refurbishment and modernisation: upgrading structure, building physics and envelope together, so the energy and the structural work fit each other.
Refurbishment rarely touches the structure alone. Facade, insulation, moisture control and structure usually hang on the same element.
Designed together
New external insulation moves the dew point. A new roof changes the loads. A tighter envelope changes how moisture behaves inside. Because structural engineering and building physics sit in the same office here, those interactions get resolved during design.
While the building is in use
Many refurbishments happen with the building occupied. That governs construction sections, propping and intermediate states – and belongs in the design, not in site supervision.