Projects / 4/19/2024

Criminal Justice Centre

Wooden floors used for almost all the interiors of the building that will accommodate 1,300 court officials and 7 courts

The new Criminal Justice Centre in Munich, designed by Plan2, is under construction to house 1,300 officials and 54 courtrooms. It features a stone and glass façade and, in the interiors, oak wood flooring from Bembé Parkett, which was quickly installed with Mapei GmbH's fast-setting solutions.

Munich's new criminal justice centre combines functionality and symbolism

A new Criminal Justice Centre is currently under construction in Munich. It will accommodate around 1,300 court officials and 7 courts, 4 of which will be dedicated to the various court proceedings and 3 will be for the offices of the Munich Public Prosecutors. There will also be various buildings from 5 to 7 storeys high and three internal courtyards, one of which will be accessible to visitors from the outside. Around the largest courtyard there will be 54 courtrooms extending over a surface area of around 5,100 m²featuring the latest technology and designed to guarantee tight security.

In April 2013 the architecture firm Plan2 was awarded the tender to design the Criminal Justice Centre. The architectural design clearly took into consideration both the functional needs of the building and its symbolic value. "The wisdom of justice must also be visible from the outside”, declared the architect Markus Frick from Plan2. Stone was widely used for the façade, making the building more imposing and up to the important functions carried out inside, as well as glass to bring in more light for the various internal areas and to represent the transparency which must always prevail during judicial proceedings. For the internal floors, on the other hand, the choice was to use mainly wood: in the corridors, courtrooms and communal areas visitors and court officials walk almost exclusively on solid oak floors.

Type of wooden floorings supplied by Bembé Parkett were installed on the floors in the Munich Criminal Justice Centre with the rapidhardening adhesive ULTRABOND ECO P909 2K FAST.

Wood flooring, everywhere, in record time

For almost all the floors in the Munich Criminal Justice Centre (35,000 m²) it was decided to use two types of wood flooring by Bembé Parkett, which since 1870 has been manufacturing, installing and caring for wood surfaces. Thanks to its experience and a network of 300 specialists all over Germany, every year the company installs more than 1 million m² of wood, vinyl and laminate flooring to an impeccable standard. The two types chosen for the Munich Criminal Justice Centre were “Stabilo”, solid oak flooring with a thickness of 23 mm, and “Stabparkett”, solid plank flooring with a thickness of 22 mm. Both types of flooring are suitable for use in both residential settings and in public and commercial buildings.

Mapei also contributed to the creation of these highly attractive, sound, wood floors resistant to the volume of foot traffic typically found in a justice centre by supplying a solution to safely install wooden flooring through its German subsidiary, Mapei GmbH. And that’s not all: installation had to be completed in a very short space of time. Therefore, it was decided to use ULTRABOND ECO P909 2K FAST two-component polyurethane adhesive which is suitable for bonding any type and format of wooden flooring. Thanks to its rapid-hardening properties (around 12 hours at room temperature) it forms a strong film with high bonding strength to all types of substrates, including non-absorbent substrates.

Type of wooden floorings supplied by Bembé Parkett were installed on 35,000 m2 of floors in the Munich Criminal Justice Centre with the rapidhardening adhesive ULTRABOND ECO P909 2K FAST.