![Spotlight Video Watch now](/fileadmin/_processed_/b/8/csm_20210719_Implenia_Tu___ebingen_090_5f193ee6e8.jpg)
Making construction logistics green
Sustainable construction site logistics, Arnulfpost Munich
Sustainability has to be planned properly – and optimised construction logistics plays an important role. But can construction logistics really help us achieve a successfully sustainable future? The “Arnulfpost” project in Munich shows how Implenia approaches this highly complex task.
![](/fileadmin/implenia.com/investoren/semi-annual-report/2021/Arnulfpost/20210719_Implenia_Tu___ebingen_425.jpg)
Facts & Figures
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
A picture-perfect project: Implenia’s Building Construction Logistics (BCL) and Special Foundations departments are supporting renovation and new-build work at the Arnulfpost in Munich between 2020 and 2023.This ambitious project is worth EUR 7 million to BCL alone. Implenia is deploying its equipment and technology services to help restore this landmark building complex in Munich to a new splendour. The owner is Google.
Built in the 1920s, the former Arnulfpost mail distribution centre at Wredestrasse 10, with its iconic rotunda, is famed far beyond Munich itself. The client, “Projekt Arnulfstraße München Grundstücks GmbH” has asked Implenia to handle a number of jobs:
- Planning construction site facilities and site management
- Production / provision of construction site facilities
- Delivery traffic control with online notification and control of unloading capacity
- Access, security and traffic safety control
- Special foundations
- COVID-19 measures
- Cleaning and waste disposal
With requirements changing all the time, the Arnulfpost project demands flexibility and a focus on good service. The quality of the work and the buildings themselves have to be optimised to meet the client’s high expectations – which is what Implenia does best.
90 %
target rate for recycling
15 %
average potential savings on transportation
100 %
of electricity from hydropower
Smart logistics for a sustainable construction site
Sustainability has to be planned properly – and optimised construction logistics plays an important role. At Implenia, Building Construction Logistics is a central part of Division Specialties. It is committed to innovative services in consultation, planning and execution. But can construction logistics really help us achieve a successfully sustainable future? The “Arnulfpost” project in Munich shows how Implenia approaches this highly complex task.
Only about 30% of working time on construction sites is used productively to create value. The rest is devoted to distribution and set-up, e.g. locating items, maintenance, transportation and waste disposal work. It is precisely at these environmentally significant optimisation points that Implenia Building Construction Logistics proves its worth. And there is much to do: when construction is underway, there is always a danger of burdening people or the natural world – whether with waste, dust, noise or air pollution.
Thanks to its tireless efforts, Implenia can now set ambitious goals in this regard. At the Arnulfpost in Munich, for example, the goal is to achieve a recycling rate of 90%. Meanwhile, “erosion and sedimentation control” will help reduce soil and air contamination around the construction site.
Implenia Building Construction Logistics has a passion for improving and optimising construction processes in order to protect the environment. Overarching control of all the auxiliary processes prevents unnecessary wastes of time and resources, which can in turn save costs.
SUSTAINABILITY IN SUPPLY LOGISTICS
Reducing traffic congestion by organising delivery journeys at the least disruptive times and actively managing delivery traffic to and from the site
- Transporting building materials around the site by appropriate means. There is an average savings potential from transport of approximately 15%.
- Electricity supplied to the site from sustainable energy sources as part of Implenia’s framework contract
- Control and clean-up of pollutants in the soil, drainage systems and air
- Use of alternative heating and cooling concepts for site cabins
CONSTANT OPTIMISATION OF INFRASTRUCTURE ON CONSTRUCTION SITES
- Central management and leasing of storage areas helps create more effective and stable construction workflows
- Centralised cabins with rental plans reduce the need to set up and dismantle cabins for each individual contractor
- Central provision of electricity, water, elevators etc. reduces interfaces, which saves costs and optimises the use of resources
TAKING THE WORRY OUT OF WASTE DISPOSAL LOGISTICS
- Waste sorting and disposal concepts substantially reduce mixed construction waste down to as low as 10%, helping offset increased sorting costs.
- Conscientious disposal of building residuals with appropriate transportation
- Innovative transport concepts reduce transport volumes
- Cleaner construction sites thanks to centralised waste disposal and appointment of a “waste sheriff”
- We take the project-specific requirements for e.g. DGNB, LEED or BREEAM certification very seriously – including the waste management requirements
Conclusion: Construction logistics is another area in which Implenia impresses customers: modern, comprehensive and well thought-out concepts – for our sustainably optimised future.
Sustainability
The building owner, Google, prioritises sustainability and is aiming for Platinum LEED certification. Implenia is meeting this challenge on many levels:
- Recycling target of over 90%
- Erosion and sedimentation control to reduce the burden that the construction site puts on the soil and the air
- All contractors have to prove they are using sustainably produced materials
- Emission-reducing transport concept
- Switching electricity supply to 100% hydro
Challenges
Other top projects
Semi-Annual Report 2021
![Circular economy, Waldenburgerbahn Basel](/fileadmin/implenia.com/investoren/semi-annual-report/2021/Waldenburgerbahn/Implenia_Nuglar_Waldenburg_35.jpg)
Circular economy, Waldenburgerbahn Basel
The “Waldeburgerli”, Switzerland’s narrowest-gauge railway, is being widened as part of a general refurbishment of the line, which runs through the Waldenburg valley. This project is notable for its complexity, but also for its regional approach to creating a closed material cycle.
Read more![Developing and building in partnership, Südcampus Bad Homburg](/fileadmin/_processed_/4/9/csm_SC_Bild1_37b633517a.jpg)
Developing and building in partnership, Südcampus Bad Homburg
In Bad Homburg am Taunus, Implenia is realising the "Wohnquartier am Südcampus" project for the developer Wüstenrot Haus- und Städtebau (WHS). The job is being executed within a two-stage partnering process. Together with WHS we developed, planned and optimised the project together with the client from the very first phase.
Read more![Integrated Project Delivery, Schaffhauserstrasse Zurich](/fileadmin/implenia.com/investoren/semi-annual-report/2021/Schaffhauserstrasse/Implenia-IPD-0596.jpg)
Integrated Project Delivery, Schaffhauserstrasse Zurich
Implenia wants to promote new partnership models for greater transparency and efficiency, and is launching pilot projects that use Integrated Project Delivery (IPD). A new project to build a multi-family dwelling on Schaffhauserstrasse in Zurich is just getting under way.
Read more![Sustainable construction site logistics, Arnulfpost Munich](/fileadmin/implenia.com/investoren/semi-annual-report/2021/Arnulfpost/20210719_Implenia_Tu___ebingen_002.jpg)
Sustainable construction site logistics, Arnulfpost Munich
Sustainability has to be planned properly – and optimised construction logistics plays an important role. But can construction logistics really help us achieve a successfully sustainable future? The “Arnulfpost” project in Munich shows how Implenia approaches this highly complex task.
Read more