Hansgrohe Valjevo
Our client, Hansgrohe, headquartered in Schiltach, Germany, is one of the world’s leading bathroom and kitchen equipment manufacturers. The company has built a production complex in Valjevo. Its purpose is to produce faucets, parts, showers, and other products.
Oktopaz conducted a technical inspection and approved the facility, which the contractor constructed in three phases. Given that each phase has a separate building permit and thus a separate technical inspection, it is three projects in one. Our technical review committees covered architecture, structure, traffic surfaces, water supply and sewerage, electric power building services, telecommunications and signalling building services, mechanical building services, motor vehicles, fire extinguishing systems, traffic signalling, general fire safety measures, technology, and measures prescribed by the environmental impact assessment study. In addition to the three main ones, we also made additional reports for the technical acceptance of the transformer station and the photovoltaic power plant.
The first construction phase includes a faucet production facility with accompanying warehouse space and offices. It is the main facility of the complex. As part of the first phase, the contractor has built six supporting facilities, internal roads, parking lots, and open plateaus. The constructor has built a photovoltaic power plant with an installed power of 300 kWp on the roof. Our client will use the produced electricity in part for itself and in part for the electricity distribution system, thereby acquiring the status of buyer-producer. The gross construction area of all the first-phase buildings is 21,482.99 square metres.
The second construction phase of the complex is the foundry, an extension of the production facility of the first phase in a functional and constructive sense. The foundry includes the production area, along with offices and sanitary facilities. An office on the ground floor serves the supervision and control of the production process. For the second construction phase, it was necessary to prepare an environmental impact assessment study. The gross construction area of the second phase is 3,997.63 square metres.
The third construction phase of the complex includes an area for electroplating and a basketball court. The electroplating facility is an extension of the production facility of the first and second stages in terms of functionality and construction. The production area of the electroplating facility is divided into two parts by a fire-resistant thermal panel: the entrance part and the electroplating area with wastewater treatment. The facility processes wastewater to a quality suitable for discharge into the sewerage system. The project included constructing chemical warehouses and offices for production supervision and control alongside the production area. The client prepared an environmental impact assessment study for the third construction phase. The gross construction area of the third phase is 7,610.93 square metres.
The casting phase marks the first technological step in production. After casting, workers move the castings to machining, grinding, and polishing (phase 1), followed by electroplating (phase 3). Finally, they assemble the product parts, store them, and deliver them (phase 1).
Through the technical inspection, we established the completeness of the technical and other documents for the facility construction and the compliance of the performed works with the building permit, technical regulations and standards related to certain types of works, materials, building services and equipment.