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journal 6/2016
Die Hamilton Scotts Apartments sind
eine der besten Wohnadressen, die der
Stadtstaat Singapur zu bieten hat. Die
30-stöckige Wohnanlage bietet ein ganz
besonderes Feature: Bewohner können ihre
Luxus-Fahrzeuge direkt vor ihrem Apart-
ment parken. Möglich wird dies durch ein
vollautomatisches Parksystem von Wöhr,
bei dem Zahnriemen von ContiTech als
Tragmittel zum Einsatz kommen.
Wer in Singapur Geld hat, zeigt es auch.
LuxuriöseAutos und exklusiveWohnungen
dürfen da nicht fehlen. Für die Bewohner
der Hamilton Scotts Apartments liegt
beides dicht beieinander: Sie parken nicht
Parkplatz in luftiger Höhe
Parking place at a dizzy height
vor der Haustür oder in einer Tiefgarage,
sondern nehmen ihren fahrbarenUntersatz
gleich mit auf die Etage. Durch eine große
Glasscheibe können sie ihre Fahrzeuge so
vom Sofa aus in der „Skygarage“ bewun-
dern – und gleichzeitig ihren Blick über
die asiatische Metropole schweifen lassen.
Während die Bewohner ihre Apartments
über einen Personenaufzug erreichen,
nimmt das Parksystem ihreAutos an einem
Zugangspunkt im Erdgeschoss entgegen,
um sie vor der jeweiligen Wohnung abzu-
stellen. Diese Lösung ist nicht nur exklusiv,
sie bietet auch ein Höchstmaß an Raum-
effizienz: „Während etwa eine Tiefgarage
zwangsläufig raumintensive Rampen und
The Hamilton Scotts Apartments are
one of the best residential addresses the
city-state of Singapore has to offer. The
30-storey condominium offers a very
special feature: Residents can park their
luxury cars directly in front of their apart-
ment. This is enabledbya fullyautomated
parking lift sytemofWöhr, whichemploys
ContiTech timing belts.
Thosewithmoney in Singapore like to show it, for
example with luxury cars and exclusive homes.
For residents of the Hamilton Scotts Apartments,
these two things lie close to each other: they do
not park in front of the building or in a garage,
but take their vehicles to the floor they live.
Through a large glass pane, they can marvel at
their vehicles in the“Sky Garage”from their sofa,
while at the same time, they can let their eyes
wander over the Asian metropolis.
While the residents reach their apartments by
a passenger elevator, the parking lift takes their
cars over at an access point at the ground floor
in order to carry and park them in front of the
particular apartment. This solution is not only
exclusive, it also offers excellent space efficiency:
“While underground parking requires extensive
ramps and driving lanes, the parking lift system
uses the existing space in the manner of a high
bay,”says Andreas Zangerle, Development Man-
ager of Wöhr.
Extra long belts
The belts that lift the vehicles up to a height of
370 feet come from ContiTech. “For very high
parking lifts, timing belts are our first choice,”
says Zangerle. For the first time, they were used
in 2006 for the parking systems in two 170 feet
high towers in Mumbai, India.
For the project in Singapore, Wöhr has ordered
6,600 feet of the timing belt CONTI® SYNCHRO-
DRIVE, in single lengths around 400 feet. “It is
actually a standard belt”, says Thomas Winkler
from the Application Engineering of ContiTech
Power Transmission Group. “But it has never
been installed in such lengths before”. Usually,
the belt is used in industrial lifting applications,
where differences between 30 to 100 feet must
be bridged.
Large weights are not a problem for the CONTI®
SYNCHRODRIVE – it features steel cord, the
strongest tensionmember in the ContiTech belt
portfolio. But the belt provides other important
characteristics as well, which are important for
the project: A noise-reducing cover fabricmakes
it anti-static.“This protects the control electronics
of the parking lift and can prevent disturbances
in its operation,”saysWinkler. In addition, the ten-
sionmember has been optimized: it offers a very
Wöhr
Bewohner des 30-stöckigen Hamilton
Scotts können ihre Autos auf der
jeweiligen Etage direkt vor ihren
Appartements parken.
For the project in Singapore, Woehr
ordered 6,600 feet of the timing belt
CONTI® SYNCHRODRIVE.
OBJEKt /
Building