Intep supported Johann Kontor as a strategic sustainability partner across all relevant project phases. As early as the competition stage, we embedded specific sustainability criteria and carried out an LCA-based scenario comparison between refurbishment and new-build options. During design and construction, we managed the DGNB certification process for the office and residential components, led the DGNB audit, coordinated the evidence and documentation, and guided the project through to successful conformity assessment—achieving DGNB Platinum certification for the office and hotel uses.
In doing so, we systematically embedded the key DGNB quality sections—environmental, economic, sociocultural and functional, technical, and process quality—throughout planning and execution up to commissioning, while deliberately integrating sociocultural aspects into both the design and delivery process. Social-use elements such as a daycare centre and cultural offerings were also considered as part of the holistic sustainability approach, in line with the sociocultural quality criteria.
Finally, intep supported the transition into operation, including the tendering of property management (PM) and facility management (FM) services. The result is an economically viable, environmentally sound, and functionally future-ready urban quarter with exemplary character.
