Officials at the topping out of the German pavilion.
Germany celebrates topping out of pavilion
01 April 2020
Germany has achieved a major construction milestone with the official topping out of the country’s Expo 2020 Dubai pavilion, Campus Germany, early last month.
Some 480 tonnes of steelwork and 2,300 cu m of concrete has gone into the construction of the building taking shape on the Expo site. Over the past 12 months, construction workers have spent some 38,350 hours helping to complete the shell of Campus Germany.
Construction on the pavilion is moving to the next stage, said Koelnmesse GmbH, which is responsible for organising and running the German Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.
The exhibition design team is now all set to start finalising the content, and Koelnmesse is busy selecting staff for the pavilion.
While work gets under way on the pavilion interiors in the next few weeks, Cologne-based agency facts and fiction will start finalising the details of the exhibition.
According to senior German officials, the focus at Campus Germany will be on knowledge, research and human interaction – true to the Expo 2020 Dubai theme of “Connecting Minds, Creating the Future”.
The consortium behind the German Pavilion work includes facts and fiction, responsible for content, exhibition and media design; Swiss company Nussli Adunic, in charge of concept design, planning and realisation); and Berlin-based Lava (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture, handling architecture and spatial design.
Speaking at the topping out ceremony, senior German officials said this was a milestone in the construction phase of Campus Germany within less than a year of the ground-breaking ceremony.
“The topping-out ceremony is another milestone on our journey to ensuring Campus Germany is finished in time for the opening of the Expo,” remarked Dietmar Schmitz, Commissioner General of the German Pavilion. “It’s a tight schedule but I’m hugely impressed by the professional approach being taken to make sure everything is ready on time.”
Preparations are under way away from the construction site too, with Koelnmesse currently, the company is in the middle of the recruitment process to find 180 staff to work in the pavilion.
The core team for the German Pavilion is scheduled to move to Dubai at the beginning of September. The completed pavilion will be handed over to Koelnmesse four weeks before the Expo launch, allowing time for the test phase and hands-on training for staff – the basis for smooth operations in and around Campus Germany and a once-in-a-lifetime experience for Expo visitors, he added.
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