From Gersthofen to New York City: The facade construction specialist Seele is realizing a steel and glass roof for the famous Penn Station.
As part of the Penn Station expansion, the neighboring historic post office building was converted into a modern station concourse and opened at the beginning of the year. Today’s Moynihan Train Hall offers commuters and travelers a light-flooded atmosphere thanks to a net-like roof made of steel and glass. The imposing 5,400 square meter roof construction comes from Bavaria, more precisely from facade specialist Seele from Gersthofen. Also new is the East End Gateway access to the underground train station on 33rd Street for which Seele constructed a filigree rope facade.
Daylight for historical buildings
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The Moynihan Train Hall is one of numerous projects that the facade specialist Seele has implemented in the US metropolis. The complex steel-and-glass construction for the roofing of the two inner courtyards of the former post office consists of a total of five domes and covers an area of around 5,400 square meters. The new construction brings daylight into the historic existing building.
Production in Gersthofen, assembly on site
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The roof was designed and manufactured in Gersthofen. The team of designers, engineers, production, logistics and assembly workers planned the roof as a cable-braced shell structure with welded steel T-profiles so that the rod-node system connects to the existing steel structure of the old post office building. Around 2,940 individual, diamond-shaped aluminum-glass elements with a sun protection coating were used in the shell structure and 624 tons of steel were installed. Due to the uniqueness of the components, each of the elements was coded during production so that the positions on the construction site can be assigned immediately. As a result, the on-site assembly was carried out quickly and in the given time.
Test environment for exclusive facade and roof constructions
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The major Moynihan Train Hall project started at Seele in 2017 with a so-called mock-up at its own test and inspection center in Gersthofen. A section of the roof structure in its original size was subjected to various load and performance tests under realistic conditions. Among other things, the engineers use wind generators to simulate strong storms or state-of-the-art technology for live inspection for customers.
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