Campus project – Dürr opts for a sustainable energy concept at Bietigheim-Bissingen
- The new office complex comprises three pavilions designed in a modern, open and welcoming style
The Dürr Group is expanding its premises at Bietigheim-Bissingen (Germany) to form a campus where all its paint, final assembly and environmental technology activities will be centered. By mid-2009 a modern office and technology complex will be completed with facilities for 1,500 employees including a well equipped customer center. Around 900 employees and our headquarters will relocate from the Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen location to Bietigheim-Bissingen. Stuttgart will remain the registered Head Office of Dürr AG. Porsche, whose factory is adjacent to the Stuttgart premises, will take over the land and buildings vacated by Dürr. Investment in the Campus project will amount to around € 50 million.
With “Campus Energy 21” Dürr has developed a pioneering energy supply concept that is characterized by an approach calling for sustainability in the use of resources and low emissions of CO2. It includes drawing on geothermal resources and heat exchangers as well as on process heat recovery. Energy efficiency of the office complex has been optimized with excellent insulation and a lighting system controlled via daylight sensors. On April 28, Dürr presented this innovative concept to the public, in the presence of Tanja Gönner, Environment Minister for Baden-Württemberg, and Jürgen Kessing, Mayor of Bietigheim-Bissingen.
- Paint Systems technology center, already the world’s largest, will be extended and modernized
Bringing all four business units of Paint and Assembly Systems closer together on the Campus in terms of physical proximity will allow Dürr to organize its business processes more efficiently, and will improve communication between the departments.
On the 68,000 m2 Campus site, a customer center will be established, which will also provide extra space for more training courses – in connection with paint robots for example. The new, recently finished, logistics center together with the extension for what will then become the world’s largest such center for paint and final assembly technology, will complete the facilities provided at the Campus. In addition to its research laboratories, the technology center will also be equipped with the most modern test plants for the RoDip rotational painting process, FAStplant® final assembly systems and sealing processes for welded seams.
- A new customer center is under construction on the campus. It will offer space for holding more training courses on robotic painting
Construction of the Campus began officially on November 20, 2007 when Ralf Dieter, Chairman of the Board, and Jürgen Kessing, Mayor of Bietigheim-Bissingen, ceremonially took up their spades and broke the first ground. Work on the 68,000 m2 plot will concentrate first on the new logistics warehouse and the world’s largest technology center for painting and final assembly solutions. Apart from test laboratories, ultramodern test plants for the RoDip rotary dip painting process, the FAStplant® final assembly system and for the sealing process for weld seams will also be installed there. Our customers will benefit additionally from a big training center with a much broader range of training courses.