MV WERFTEN Building Accommodation Facility

After six months of construction, shipbuilder MV WERFTEN and Genting Hong Kong, together with companies tied to the project and representatives of the city of Wismar, celebrated a traditional topping-out ceremony at MV WERFTEN's new accommodation facility – the MVW Alter Holzhafen Beherbergungsstätte. Partners and guests of the shipyard will be able to stay in the facility from 2019.

MV WERFTEN will be investing just over 10 million euros in the accommodation project, which is designed to host MV WERFTEN's subcontractors, suppliers, consultants and guests, as well as colleagues from the company's Asian and American affiliates. The facility will be run by one of the shipyard's own affiliates.

With a total space of approximately 5,300 sq ft, the new facility will offer accommodation in 104 rooms on three floors. The first floor will have a restaurant, bar, shopfront as well as conference facilities and lecture rooms.

The rooms, each one approximately 200 sq ft in size, have been created using prefabricated ship cabins – the same ones used as passenger cabins aboard the Global Class cruise ships and fabricated by MV WERFTEN Fertigmodule in Wismar. Installation of the prefabricated modules started in August with each one being delivered on a special trailer. Once on site, a special lift and mobile crane will raise the module into place. The module will then be rolled into the structure using height-adjustable rollers where it will be fixed in place.

"Today's topping-out ceremony marks an important milestone," said Oliver Behrendt, Managing Director of MVW Alter Holzhafen Beherbergungsstätte. "Construction is progressing according to plan. We are very pleased with the collaboration with each of our project partners and we look forward to the opening."

The project is being carried out in cooperation with HTG Hoch- und Tiefbau Gadebusch GmbH acting as general contractor, and IPROconsult GmbH as general planner. The launch is planned for the second quarter of 2019.