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In a very short time, sbp sonne and project partner Graboplan have successfully installed the prototype of a new type of floating PV system in Hungary.
The floating units consist of air-filled membrane tubes (“tubes”), similar to an inflatable boat. The innovative concept enables very fast installation, and the geometry and internal pressure of the tubes can also be adapted to the site and environmental conditions. Blowfish (Gömbhal in hungarian), therefore reacts to special situations in a similar way to an inflating blowfish.
Blowfish is the first bifacial FPV system. On land, bifacial systems typically provide a higher energy yield since they can also use light reflected from the ground. However, they have not been used in previous FPV systems due to the significantly lower reflectivity (albedo) of water compared to solid ground. Blowfish addresses this problem by having a membrane underneath the modules reflecting solar rays which, in typical lightweight engineering, also acts as a load-bearing structural element.
In honor of Rudolf Bergermann’s 80th birthday
schlaich bergermann partner congratulates Rudolf Bergermann, who celebrates his 80th birthday today! After studying civil engineering at the University of Stuttgart and working as an engineer for Leonhardt & Andrä, he founded together with Jörg Schlaich the office Schlaich + Partner in 1980. Today, he still works as a consulting engineer for schlaich bergermann partner.
In his more than 60 years as an engineer and partner, he can look back on many impressive global projects – bridges such as the Second Hooghly River Bridge in Calcutta, the Ting Kau Bridge in Hong Kong or the Khor al Batah road bridge in Oman bear his signature. Countless stadium roofs, such as the cable net construction of the Olympic Stadium in Munich, the membrane roof of the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart (today the Mercedes-Benz Arena) or the roof of the King Fahd Stadium in Riyadh are the pioneers of many of our stadium projects worldwide. Many movable structures, like the roofs of the Roman Arena Nimes, the Olympic Stadium in Montreal or the arcade court in the Vienna City Hall are other important projects he worked on.
The research on and the development of the solar updraft tower as well as the generation of electricity by solar energy have always been his concern together with Jörg Schlaich.
