One guiding theme: Healthy living and sustainability.

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Building type Warehouses and car dealerships
Area 800 m²
Country Germany

The heart of the new Alnatura Campus in the southwest of Darmstadt is the company' s headquarter: Alnatura working world. The platinum DGNB-certified office building - the largest in Europe with exterior facades made of clay - offers space for 420 employees with a gross floor area of 13,500 m². On the 55,000 m² campus there is also the public "Waldorf Kindergarten", the 400 m² vegetarian restaurant tibits as well as school and adventure gardens. The particularly environmentally friendly and energy-efficient buildings are characterized by their simple, natural aesthetics and the sustainable use of existing resources. All building materials therefore had to meet high ecological criteria and satisfy the demands for sustainability and healthy living. The challenge was the professional sealing of floors and walls in the canteen kitchen and the sanitary facilities of the daycare center, for which codex supplied the appropriate tile-laying materials, which were exclusively certified with EMICODE EC1 Plus.

 

Challenge commercial kitchen

The high chemical load in the canteen kitchen also required the use of products for the highest water impact class W3-I. This meant that the epoxy resin composite waterproofing Epo 2000, the codex sealing tapes and the 3-component Design Epoxy Joint Mortar X-Fusion were used, all of which meet the requirements. It was very important to ensure that the sealing flange was watertight when connected to the composite seal. The connections of the sealings are generally to be attached to all installation parts according to the standards. This was particularly important when sealing the box gutter in the canteen kitchen.

 

High indoor air quality for the little ones

All materials used for sealing and laying the 10 x 10 cm ceramic tiles in the WCs and bathrooms of the Alnatura kindergarten also meet the requirements for healthy living products. They are certified with EMICODE EC1 Plus, have very low emissions and do not pollute the air in the room. "We were able to choose from the wide range of products offered by codex; we always had the right certified products available", confirms Rainer Mauz, Managing Director of Fliesen Mauz. "This also applies to products that dry through reliably and quickly.

Products used

FG 550 2-C Epoxy Primer

codex FG 550 is a 2-C Epoxy Primer for absorbent and non-absorbent substrates. It is used as a system component for codex epoxy composite sealants and codex epoxy and PU adhesives.

Power CX 3 Flex thin-bed mortar

The flexible thin-bed mortar codex Power CX 3 is universally usable and suitable for all ceramic wall and floor coverings.
Thanks to its plastic coating, it meets the C2 TE S1 requirement of EN 12 004 and is suitable for mortar bed thicknesses up to 10 mm.
The codex Power CX 3 is also available in a white version for use with translucent ceramics.

FG 340 Protective primer

The low-emission protective primer codex FG 340 is universally suitable for all absorbent, mineral substrates and protects against moisture from the installation mortar.

Epo 2000 Reactive sealing

The codex Epo 2000 reactive sealant is a flexible, two-component epoxy resin composite sealant under ceramic coverings. codex Epo 2000 is a flexible, composite sealant for surfaces exposed to particularly high levels of moisture and wetness, even those exposed to high chemical loads.

Power RX 6 Turbo Fast flex-, thin- and flow-bed mortar

The rapid setting, highly flexible thin- and flow-bed mortar codex Power RX 6 Turbo is suitable for the installation of wall and floor coverings.

Installation systems for screeds, floors and wood flooring

Machinery and special tools for substrate preparation and installation of floor coverings

Complete product range for installation, renovation and maintenance of wood flooring

Resin and cementitious floor finishes combining performance and design

Installation systems for tiling and natural stone

High quality painting, plastering and drywalling tools