Construction Planning

The Construction Planning accompanies and supervises all building projects and renovation measures at the university as the user's representative or handles small projects on his or her own.

Overview of construction and renovation measures

The University of Applied Sciences Potsdam is continuously implementing various construction and maintenance measures to secure the building infrastructure, optimise operations and meet future requirements. The projects are in various planning and implementation phases and are being carried out partly by the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences itself and partly in coordination with external partners or the state of Brandenburg. 

The IBZ building on the grounds of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam is currently vacant. As funding from the Brandenburg Ministry of Science, Research and Culture (Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur des Landes Brandenburg, MWFK) is not planned, the university management has decided to carry out the necessary repairs as part of the university's minor building maintenance programme.

As a first step, the building management removed the unusable furniture this year. The next step will be to replace the windows. In further steps, the heating and sanitary facilities will be put back into operation.

Scaffolding work will begin in early August. Work on the windows will start in the second half of August. According to the current schedule, the scaffolding will be dismantled at the end of October.

Das Internationale Begegnungszentrum auf dem Gelände der Fachhochschule Potsdam in der Bauphase mit Gerüst

At the beginning of 2024, tree felling work was carried out first, followed by the clearing of the construction site and the demolition of the tank hall by the end of the year.

The original plan was to commence civil engineering work in 2025. However, in July 2024, FH Potsdam was informed that civil engineering work is not expected to begin until the end of the first quarter of 2026.

The state of Brandenburg has confirmed that the project remains firmly anchored in the state budget and will be implemented as planned. According to current estimates, the new outdoor facilities are expected to be completed in around 2030.

From spring 2026, the area will initially be used as a construction site, thus blocking the building site for the new building. 

Bauplan Entwurf des Neubau V
Erweiterter Plan zum Bauvorhaben Neubau V, Haus B

The drainage of the basements in buildings House 4 and House 5 is part of the current building requirements assessment (BBN). At the beginning of August, the Brandenburg State Agency Brandenburgische Landesbetrieb für Liegenschaften und Bauen (BLB) conducted an on-site inspection to assess the situation. The next step will be to involve an expert.

An application has been submitted to the state authorities for the installation of a lift in House 4, which will run from the basement to the second floor. The aim is to make the building barrier-free. The structural conditions of the north-south oriented central corridor with front-facing corridor windows allow the lift system to be installed on the north side of the building without significantly altering the supporting structure. The project is included in the state's current overview of measures.

The planned measure to convert the lighting system in the laboratory and workshop building to modern LED technology has successfully passed the second approval stage. The application, including the cost estimate from the German Bau- und Liegenschaftsbetriebs (BLB), has been submitted to the German Minsisterium für Wirtschaft, Forschung und Kultur (MWFK) for further review.

Werkstattgebäude Innenansicht

Function & Tasks

He represents the cost-, deadline- and function-related interests of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam vis-à-vis the ministries responsible for the building as well as the Brandenburg State Office for Real Estate and Construction (BLB) and coordinates the respective scientific and administrative/technical departments of the university involved. In addition, the building officer accompanies the work of the commissioned architects and specialist engineers on an informal basis.

In concrete terms, the building officer assumes the following tasks:

  • Internal university responsibility for support in the planning, coordination of large and small building projects
  • Handling new construction projects in accordance with RBBau and RLBau
  • Ensuring project goals with quality, schedule and cost control
  • Coordinating building maintenance measures on the campus grounds with the HGP department
  • Demand planning, monitoring and project planning, diagnosis and evaluation
  • Optimisation of construction-related internal procedures and documentation structures

Contact

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Martin Stromeyer

Building commissioner