Restoration Planning and Specialized Construction Management for Complex Projects
Are you planning the restoration of an entire historic building, an elaborate old wooden interior in a religious or secular structure, or a collection of furniture or works of art? In that case, our experienced certified restorer and carpenter (Univ.) Philipp Westebbe, owner of the Zentralen Restaurierungswerkstatt Berlin, will be happy to take on the restoration planning and technical supervision for your project in a professional and goal-oriented manner.
Restoration Planning by ZRW Berlin for Your Project
The services offered by ZRW Berlin to public and institutional clients—such as museums, churches, building departments, historic preservation agencies, castle administrations, insurance companies, galleries, and institutes—as well as for large-scale projects undertaken by private individuals include, among others:
- Professional technical guidance, supervision, and consultation for the restorers working on site
- Coordinating and scheduling appointments
- Cost Control
- Monitoring compliance with the highest quality standards
- The preparation of ongoing documentation and interim reports for the client
Our planning services cover the field of architecture as well as museum exhibits, wooden interiors, and privately owned works of art.
Technical planning and supervision of your restoration project in accordance with Service Phases 1 through 9 of the HOAI
Our central restoration workshop in Berlin offers support for your conservation or restoration project through service phases 1 through 9, in accordance with Section 3 of the Fee Schedule for Architects’ and Engineers’ Services (HOAI).
Specifically, these are the following services for each service phase:
- Preliminary Assessment: Condition analysis and photographic documentation, examination of findings, conducting preliminary restoration investigations and scientific analyses in collaboration with partner laboratories and institutes, damage analysis and mapping of damage phenomena, and compilation of damage catalogs
- Preliminary Planning: Inventory assessment and definition of conservation and restoration objectives; drafting of a comprehensive investigation plan; creation of sample and test areas; and conducting test work
- Preliminary Planning: Drafting a detailed conservation and restoration strategy; preparing a cost estimate for the client in accordance with DIN 276
- Permit Planning: Preparation of Documentation for Obtaining Permits Under Historic Preservation Laws
- Implementation Planning: Planning Specific Conservation and Restoration Measures
- Preparation for the award of a contract: Quantity survey, drafting of specifications (VOB) and service descriptions (VOF)
- Participation in the award process
- Project Supervision: Assumption of the role of specialized construction manager to oversee, monitor, and approve the restoration work performed, as well as to handle documentation, quantity surveys, cost control, monitoring of schedule compliance, record-keeping, quality assurance and quality control, and billing
- Project Management: Ongoing preparation or approval of documentation, rectification of defects, consolidation of various components into comprehensive documentation, textual, photographic, graphic, scientific-analytical, and digital documentation of the initial and final conditions, as well as meticulous documentation and continuous mapping of the measures taken, and acceptance
Restoration Planning with Expertise, Experience, and Enthusiasm
The Zentrale Restaurierungswerkstatt Berlin draws on the solid training of our owner, Philipp Westebbe, as a carpenter and certified restorer (university degree), as well as on his scientific and practical expertise—tried and tested in numerous projects—in the fields of art history and the natural sciences.
In addition, he has decades of professional experience working as a conservator and restorer for private and public clients in Berlin, Brandenburg, and throughout Europe. As part of this professional experience, he has a track record of successfully completing major projects in which he served as the technical planner and construction manager.
Here is a selection of projectsin which he played a leading role in the conservation and restoration of exposed-wood interior elements or in meeting the museum and historic preservation requirements for the preservation of the building’s structure:
- Roman Catholic Branch Church of the Assumption of Mary in Hadersbach, Lower Bavaria: Restoration and Conservation of the High Altar from 1721
- Renovation of the Baroque manor house “Quinta de Vermil,” built in 1624, in Ardegão, Portugal: Restoration of the building’s structure and implementation of museum and historic preservation standards for the conservation of the original structure
- Wettenhausen Abbey: Choir stalls , made around 1680, conserved and restored
- Library in the Vorwärts Publishing House building in Vienna, Austria: Wall paneling
- Wedding Church in Rehberg, St. John the Baptist Parish Church in Austria: Conservation and Restoration of 16th-Century Church Seating
- General Hospital (AKH) in Vienna, Austria: Restoration and Conservation of Marquetry Paneled Parquet Flooring
Let’s work together to bring your restoration project to life.
We are here to support you with expert restoration planning and professional construction management, drawing on all our knowledge, experience, and passion.