As of: February 23, 2024, 9:02 a.m
By: Felix Gattinger
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The square building will take up a large part of the area up to the Parkstadion.
© Architectural office Löhle Neubauer
The day before yesterday, Wednesday February 21st, the Bavarian state parliament released the funds for the planned authority center at Kaufbeuren train station.
Kaufbeuren –
With an expected total cost of 36.5 million euros, a processing center for the State Office of Finance, a service center for the Bavarian State Government and a “BayernLab” are to be built on a usable area of around 2,760 square meters in the next few years, according to a press release from the state Kempten building authority.
In total, the new building will provide space for 130 jobs.
“As the rapporteur for this construction project in the committee, I am very pleased to have reached a unanimous decision,” explains Kaufbeuren city councilor and state parliament member Bernhard Pohl (FW), already pointing out that hardly any relocation of authorities has worked as well as the one in Kaufbeuren.
“Unlike in other parts of the Free State,” says Pohl, “employees had no reservations about moving to Kaufbeuren.” The number of inquiries was now even higher than the positions available.
The design concept by the Löhle Neubauer architectural firm from Augsburg, commissioned by the Kempten State Building Authority, envisages a compact, square, four-story building with a green inner courtyard.
The rooms of the BayernLab are to be housed in the transparently designed ground floor, which is oriented towards the station square and is intended to be available to all citizens as an open center for digital knowledge creation.
Green energy and materials concept
The government center is to be built to passive house standards.
The Kempten building authority announces that its heating requirement will be less than 15 kilowatt hours per square meter per year. A groundwater heat pump should cover the entire heating and cooling requirement using renewable energies.
30 percent of vehicle parking spaces will be equipped with electric charging points.
A photovoltaic system with an output of 56 kWp is planned for the green roof areas.
The facades are planned as a wooden construction, which binds an additional 125 tons of CO2 in the long term.
Recycling materials should also be used for the massive components.
Nevertheless, trees have to go
In the course of the construction work, however, tree felling is unavoidable, the state building authority admits, as Kaufbeuren's mayor Stefan Bosse did in the city council this week.
In order to prevent nesting birds, clearing will take place opposite the train station in the next few days.
You can read details about the procedure and how the Kaufbeuren trees on urban land are doing in general in
this report
.