Uerschterhaff detention centre, Luxembourg

Correctional facility with smaller housing units and more freedom of movement

SOMMER manufactured and installed around 1,600 doors for the correctional centre including fire protection, smoke protection, prison cell and shaft room doors.

The opening took place as part of a modernisation of the prison system and is helping to improve prison conditions. The new prison centre, which was built on an 8.6 hectare site in the municipality of Sanem, offers space for 400 male pre-trial detainees and around 350 employees.

With its overall hexagonal shape, the complex meets the organisational and security requirements of the prison service. In addition, the buildings are equipped with thermal solar panels for heating water and photovoltaic panels installed on the roofs to generate electricity.

Facts and Figures

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Execution period
May 2018 to November 2022

Client
LE GOUVERNEMENT DU GRAND-DUCHÉ DE LUXEMBOURG

Architect
CHRISTIANBAUERASSOCIES

Requirements
Highest security requirements

Products
Around 1,600 doors: SOMMER HRT system doors, SOMMER S1 system sheet steel doors as fire protection doors type B·S·T®, property security doors type O·S·T® and external doors, tubular frame doors, tubular frame sliding windows, roller blinds as privacy screens on the glass panels of the doors

Security
Fire protection, smoke protection, escape/burglary resistance, bullet resistance, radiation protection

Solutions
Fixed glazing partly as overhead glazing with sheet steel cladding in "galvanized look"
​​​​​​​Execution as individual requirements and in various combinations with each other

Photos
Screenshots from youtube.com/@administrationpenitentiaire