Siemens opens smart building HQ in Zug
The CHF20m (€221m) Siemens Zug campus has 1,000 work spaces and a newly constructed production building and is the international headquarters of the Siemens Building Technologies (BT) Division. This will also be the headquarters of the Smart Infrastructure operating company in APril 2019.
“Siemens is one of Switzerland’s largest employers. We employ over 6,000 people here, including about 300 apprentices,” said Joe Kaeser, Chairman of the Siemens AG Managing Board. “Building Technologies with its headquarters in Zug will benefit more from digitalization than virtually any other industry. Building technology will become a core element of the new operating company Smart Infrastructure (SI) and its global headquarters will then also be in Zug.”
Zug has been home to Siemens Building Technologies since 1998, when Siemens took over the industrial activities of Elektrowatt AG. “With our investments in research and development, we are using the opportunities of digitalization to steadily evolve into a smart building company,” said Matthias Rebellius, CEO of Siemens Building Technologies. “We offer a full range of building technologies for fire detection, security and automation solutions to optimize sustainability, total cost of ownership and the user experience in buildings. Smart buildings are based on comprehensive analytics and use of digital building data.”
Rebellius called the campus a reference project that illustrates the opportunities of digitalization in building technology, energy efficiency and future-oriented working. “A smart building is flexible, it learns from previous interactions and it continually adapts to the needs of building users, thus actively contributing to their success.”
Completed in July 2018, the campus is one of the first new projects to use Building Information Modeling (BIM) for design and construction. The digital twin – a 3D model of the building, enhanced with technical information relevant for later operations – is the foundation for efficient, cost-optimized and forward-looking building management.
The campus complex is equipped with building automation, security and fire safety technology from Siemens BT. An integrated building automation system with energy optimization based on the Desigo CC integrated building management platform controls the energy consumption and all the disciplines in the buildings. Energy-efficient heat pumps use water from Lake Zug as a heat source and for direct cooling so the campus buildings do not need fossil fuels to generate energy. The heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems are equipped with heat and cold recovery systems and even the compressed air systems in production have an energy recovery system for water heating. The buildings have green roofs, and the office building uses approximately 1,500 m3 of rainwater. A photovoltaic system on the roof of the production building will go into operation in the spring of 2019.
With its 56 x 56 meter footprint, the seven-story office building can accommodate 1,000 employees. It has 32,000 m2 of gross floor space, including 18,400 m2 of office space and 11,000 m2 in the two-story underground garage with 250 parking spaces.
The campus also includes an existing office and production building, scheduled for modernization in 2021. Beginning in late 2022 it will house the approximately 450 employees of BT research and development.
www.siemens.com/buildingtechnologies
If you enjoyed this article, you will like the following ones: don't miss them by subscribing to :
