Freising's new vocational school building is being put to the test again

Created: 04/12/2022, 09:00

Is it still financially possible to build a new vocational school?

At the moment it's 160 million.

© Symbolic photo: Federico Gambarini /dpa

The planned state vocational school center on Wippenhauser Strasse will be expensive - very expensive in fact.

Now it is put to the test again.

Freising

- The realization is not new: the planned state vocational school center on Wippenhauser Straße will be expensive - very expensive in fact.

While the school committee would like to have potential savings checked, some district councilors didn't go far enough at the district committee meeting on Thursday.

"Now I would like to know what a renovation of the old school would cost," demanded Johann Stegmair (CSU).

The costs for a new building have exploded: while the first estimate in 2015 was around 42 million euros, there is already talk of up to 160 million euros.

It was Stegmair who opened the topic: "It's no longer in reasonable proportion.

We should now take a step in between.” What he could not understand: “Do you really have to tear down a building that is 35 years old?” Due to the explosion in costs, Stegmair urgently wants an examination by architects, which instead means a renovation of the vocational school plus the construction of an additional building would cost.

"If we wave the new building through," says Stegmair, "we will suffocate the next generation of district councillors."

District Administrator: The costs have frightened many

Rainer Schneider (FW) found even clearer words: "The district of Freising can no longer afford that." Schneider suspects that the costs could continue to skyrocket due to inflation and the spiraling construction costs.

"There is now a sum on the table, it freezes you," emphasized Schneider.

Even the district administrator had to admit one thing: “The high costs frightened many.

And internally we often, often, often talked about whether we should continue like this.” For him, however, the government’s decision is a big indication that the renovation would be more expensive than the new building: “They wouldn’t be tens of millions take euros when it would be cheaper otherwise,” says Helmut Petz.

Check renovation without interrupting the planning

What would still be conceivable for him: a parallel investigation of what plan B (the renovation) could cost - but without interrupting the current plans.

According to Florian Plajer, Head of the Building Department, a parallel examination of the renovation costs of the old building during the planning and cost assessment for the new building could be quite difficult.

(By the way: everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)

In order to accomplish this, the architects would have to stop the new building calculations and possibly redeploy staff.

In addition, it could happen that other projects would have to be pushed back.

"There will soon be a critical number of staff in the building construction department," predicted Plajer.

His request: "Please give us some time until we have the final figures."

What he also drew the committee's attention to was the fact that the decision in principle always assumed that a new building would be built and that the vocational school had therefore only been renovated to the bare minimum.

Schneider criticizes the city of Freising

Maria Lintl (FM) brought one aspect into play for each new building.

The new school center is an important aspect of urban development on the school campus.

Here Schneider intervened: “The city is not doing anything about it.

Each municipality pays with and Freising also only partially.

But the city always talks about its urban planning measures.

So off the gas.”

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Because the situation is complex, the district committee decided on two things: to examine further savings opportunities for a new building and to calculate the costs for refurbishing the old building.

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