We are pleased to be able to celebrate omniCon’s 20th anniversary this year. We want to take the opportunity not only to thank all partners as well as employees, but also to honor their work in a very special way. Every month, we want to present one or more construction projects as a themed article, show them in film clips or photo spreads, or conduct interviews with key players. The focus will be on innovative solutions for real estate and project developments as well as the outstanding achievements and commitment of those involved in the projects. We start today in Frankfurt, where an important milestone has just been reached for the ONE high-rise project.

We are pleased to be able to celebrate omniCon’s 20th anniversary this year. We want to take the opportunity not only to thank all partners as well as employees, but also to honor their work in a very special way. Every month, we want to present one or more construction projects as a themed article, show them in film clips or photo spreads, or conduct interviews with key players. The focus will be on innovative solutions for real estate and project developments as well as the outstanding achievements and commitment of those involved in the projects. We start today in Frankfurt, where an important milestone has just been reached for the ONE high-rise project.

The 190-meter-high ONE office and hotel tower is being built by developer and investor CA Immo at the junction between Frankfurt’s banking district and Europaviertel, not far from the trade fair center. The foundation stone was laid in October 2018: Only about 28 months later, the shell of the skyscraper has already been completed.

omniCon was already involved in the preliminary planning of the project before there was any sign of construction work on the property. As construction manager, we supervise and coordinate all service phases in the planning and current construction process from the very beginning, and we will continue to supervise the project until after the tenants have moved in. At ONE, almost the entire service spectrum of omniCon will be called upon. From pre-construction measures, the tendering and management of almost all trades to the implementation of the sustainability goals defined by the client, which are decisive for a successful certification according to the highest DGNB standard in platinum. Consequently, the building has already been successfully pre-certified in platinum.

The numerous employees of omniCon and our construction partners, who know their project inside out and identify with the building to a large extent, are not least responsible for the success of the ONE project.

“Construction Management means that we are involved from start to finish. We accompany the specialist planners, the architects or even the construction companies and can always turn the right screws to make the project a success for the client,” emphasizes René Rüweler, Construction Manager at omniCon. “On building sites as large and complex as the ONE, it is a particular challenge to always schedule and provide materials and personnel on all floors at the right time and in the right place. One of the many innovative ideas on this site is to use the JumpLift™ from elevator manufacturer KONE as a high-performance construction elevator to increase efficiency and speed.

Our team demanded maximum precision and concentration from itself, but also from all the companies and people involved in the construction work, in order to meet the high quality requirements. This was especially true for the builders, whose hands made the tower possible in the first place, day and night, in all seasons and at sometimes dizzying heights. The hard physical and manual work performed by the builders deserves the highest recognition.

“The overhang at a height of around 130 meters was by far the most exciting construction phase,” reports Mike Neumann, omniCon project manager. “The colleagues from our shell construction company HOCHTIEF worked hand in hand here and did an outstanding job.”

An exemplary approach was also taken to a challenge that no one could have foreseen on this scale: the Corona Pandemic.

“The construction crews behaved in an exemplary manner and pulled together. And the client and the authorities also cooperated perfectly and set up all the Corona protection measures on the site in such a way that they were highly effective and delays in the construction process could be avoided as a result,” Neumann summarizes. Not least through the use of innovative project planning methods and lean construction management, it was possible to respond to all constraints and optimize the work steps on the construction site during construction. We will report more on the innovative approaches and omniCon’s contribution to the further development of this software in the course of the year.

In a little more than a year, when the building will be completed in spring 2022 and Frankfurt’s first public skybar will start operating on the 47th floor, we will celebrate the next milestone with the developer CA Immo: the opening.

CA Immo has dedicated a film to all those involved and in particular to the builders, who have achieved this feat with their hands-on work in wind and weather and under the difficult conditions caused by the pandemic. You can watch the movie here on YouTube.