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Siemens Center as a model for sustainability

2022-01-26T18:10:02.971Z


Siemens Center as a model for sustainability Created: 01/26/2022, 19:01 By: Sandra Sedlmaier Wood and glass and embedded in the landscape: This is what the new Siemens Global Leadership Center in Feldafing should look like. © Architectural Office Siemens stays in Feldafing: The group wants to renew its conference center on Lake Starnberg and is investing millions. Those responsible promise tha


Siemens Center as a model for sustainability

Created: 01/26/2022, 19:01

By: Sandra Sedlmaier

Wood and glass and embedded in the landscape: This is what the new Siemens Global Leadership Center in Feldafing should look like.

© Architectural Office

Siemens stays in Feldafing: The group wants to renew its conference center on Lake Starnberg and is investing millions.

Those responsible promise that the new "Global Leadership Center" will be a flagship project in terms of sustainability.

Feldafing

– Since 1972 decisions have been made in Feldafing that have a global impact on the Siemens Group.

The people of Feldafinger don't notice much of it at first - the "Global Leadership Center" (GLC), as the conference center has been called for several years, is hidden behind tall trees on Siemensstrasse.

Citizens can hardly get in because the center is sealed off for fear of industrial espionage.

Now the conference center is showing its age.

Siemens wants to keep the Feldafing location and construct a new building according to the highest ecological standards.

And Siemens has decided to "become a flagship of the German economy when it comes to sustainability," as Oliver Jaroschek from the Siemens construction department recently said in the Feldafinger municipal council.

The GLC is intended to be an example of this.

The current conference center is around 50 years old and "at the end of its lifetime", according to Jaroschek.

Renovation is too expensive.

As a replacement, the Siemens management has agreed on the design by the Munich architect Axel Frühauf.

The municipal council liked his concept, the administration will start the building management process necessary for the new building.

Frühauf's design is based on the existing building and the park-like property surrounded by tall trees.

12,000 to 13,000 square meters of floor space are planned.

The conference rooms are to be located in the eastern area, and the rooms in the western area.

Four floors are required for the latter wing, said the architect, also because the five-story hospital is very prominent below towards the lake.

"That's one floor more than the development plan allows," he admitted.

But the development is based on the topography.

"We don't build in nature, but with nature." The trees on the site should be recorded and the most characteristic ones preserved.

The sustainability demanded by Siemens will also be reflected in the materials, especially in the use of wood.

In general, the conference center should be a CO2-neutral operation.

"We don't have a solution for that yet, but that's the goal," said Frühauf.

"I'm so glad that Siemens decided to stay," said Mayor Bernhard Sontheim.

He always fought for it.

To open the GLC for the people of Feldafinger, as it should be for the AUF councilor Dr.

Michael Keltsch wished, but will hardly work.

"I know that we are a white spot," said GLC director Curt Rahn.

This is due to the high security requirements, explained Sontheim.

"After a public event, a technician always goes through and checks the upholstery for microphones to prevent industrial espionage."

The model shows the accommodation wing at the top and the small pavilion for special meetings at the bottom.

© Sandra Sedlmaier

Source: merkur

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