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  • Neues Rechenzentrum auf dem Metro Campus Zürich

    Neues Rechenzentrum auf dem Metro Campus Zürich

    Die Green Datacenter AG setzt die Expansion auf dem Metro-Campus Zürich fort. Nach der Fertigstellung des ersten Datacenters im Jahr 2022 wird der Bau der Datacenter N und O früher als ursprünglich geplant umgesetzt. Dieser Schritt erfolgt aufgrund einer steigenden Nachfrage nach Datenzentren, die sowohl sicher als auch leistungsfähig sind.

    Roger Süess, CEO des Unternehmens, kommentiert das Wachstum mit den Worten: «Unsere Expansion spiegelt den rapiden technologischen Fortschritt und die Digitalisierung wider. Moderne Datacenter sind eine Voraussetzung dafür, dass diese Transformation in der Schweiz schnell, sicher und nachhaltig realisiert werden kann.» Die beiden neuen Datenzentren sollen Platz für bis zu 160’000 IT-Systeme bieten.

    Die erzeugte Abwärme aus den Datenzentren soll in bestehende Fernwärmenetze eingespeist werden, wodurch Haushalte und Betriebe in den umliegenden Gemeinden davon profitieren können. Green Datacenter investiert erhebliche Mittel in die Abwärmenutzung und kooperiert dabei mit Energie 360°, einem Zürcher Energieversorger, der in der Region verschiedene Fernwärmeprojekte realisiert. Roger Süess betont: «Durch die Nutzung der Abwärme und weitere Maßnahmen tragen wir zur Kreislaufwirtschaft bei und unterstützen die Energiewende. Für uns ist klar, dass nachhaltige Datacenter eine wesentliche Voraussetzung für eine zukunftsorientierte Digitalisierung darstellen.»

  • Dormakaba receives two prizes at the Iconic Award 2023

    Dormakaba receives two prizes at the Iconic Award 2023

    The Rümlang-based company dormakaba, which specialises in building access management, has won two awards at the Iconic Award 2023: Innovative Architecture, according to a media release. The EntriWorX EcoSystem door system and the Argus V60 sensor lock were each honoured with a winner in the Product-Building Technologies category. The awards ceremony took place on 4 October at BMW Welt in Munich.

    The EntriWorX EcoSystem is an innovative hardware and software application that supports the planning, installation and commissioning of access solutions along the building creation process and thus optimises the building planning process, according to dormakaba’s description. Architects, planners, fabricators and operators can access the same planning data for a door in every performance phase. Planning processes, installation procedures and operation would be simplified by the minimisation of door configurations and the digital networking of components.

    Regarding the new Argus V60 sensor barrier, the company points to the compactness of the model, which offers safety and efficiency in the smallest of spaces. Thanks to modern sensor technology, the sensor barrier gives architects and users more freedom in personal protection and separation detection. Argus V60 is one of the smallest full-featured sensor barriers on the market. RFID readers for transponders or tags, barcode scanners or escape route components can be integrated.

    At the award ceremony in Munich, Bernhard Heitz, Strategic Product Design at dormakaba, presented the special prize sponsored by the company in the Architects of the Year category to Sou Fujimoto Architects from Japan.

  • Siemens as a leading provider in security software for smart buildings

    Siemens as a leading provider in security software for smart buildings

    The analyst firm has ranked Siemens Smart Infrastructure as one of the leading providers of security software for smart buildings. The recently published report “Green Quadrant: Integrated Smart Building Security Software 2023” analyses and evaluates ten companies that shape the market. Siemens’ solutions offer state-of-the-art functions for unified security management. The Siemens software evaluated is part of Siemens Xcelerator, an open digital business platform that accelerates customers’ digital transformation.

    “Being ranked as a leading provider of security software for smart buildings underlines the success of our strategy: we want to strengthen our digital portfolio and be the preferred partner for customers in their digital transformation. Because it is our declared goal to make buildings safer and more resilient through software,” says Henning Sandfort, CEO of Building Products at Siemens Smart Infrastructure.

    Property and building managers need integrated solutions to ensure reliable building and security operations and better protect the safety and well-being of their tenants. Digital advances are paving the way for more flexible systems that offer both integrated and targeted operational views, automated workflows, more detailed analytics and richer value propositions.

    Source: www.siemens.com

  • BAU celebrates a successful comeback

    BAU celebrates a successful comeback

    “BAU has once again proven that it is and remains the most important stage for innovations and premieres in the building sector. Despite the four-year forced break, more companies presented themselves in Munich than ever before. This underpins the very positive response to trade fairs and, in particular, to leading world trade fairs, as was already evident in 2022,” say the two heads of the trade fair Reinhard Pfeiffer and Stefan Rummel, summing up BAU 2023.

    Dieter Schäfer, Chairman of the BAU Exhibitors’ Advisory Council, agrees that BAU 2023 was a great success: “We did everything right by moving BAU 2023 to April. Fully occupied halls and a high proportion of international visitors underline the relevance of BAU. It was all the more important that the fair took place again after more than four years. In future, BAU will return to its usual January date.”

    In addition to the Federal Minister of Construction, Klara Geywitz, Bavaria’s Minister of Economic Affairs, Hubert Aiwanger, also took a look at the innovations and trends in the building industry at BAU: “The largest construction and architects’ trade fair is a successful networking platform for planners and building tradesmen. We need the very innovations presented there on how to reconcile climate protection and the challenges such as affordable building and housing. The fair stands for progress, growth and competitiveness and sets the course for the future in building and urban planning.”

    For Felix Pakleppa, General Manager of the Central Association of the German Building Trade (Zentralverband des Deutschen Baugewerbes), BAU sends a trend-setting signal to the building industry after the long forced break: “With the key themes of digital transformation, the future of living, resources and recycling, as well as modular building, the biggest challenges and trends of the moment have been perfectly mapped out. This year, BAU thus once again offers a great platform for creating future perspectives.”

    Katharina Metzger, President of the Federal Association of the German Building Materials Trade, also considers the return after more than four years a success: “We are more than satisfied with BAU 2023, because such an important sector cannot afford to be without a trade fair platform for six years. Even if important manufacturers for our specialist dealers with their craftsmen were unfortunately not on board this time, we hope that we can count on the old presence of suppliers again in January in 2025.”

    Andrea Gebhard, President of the Federal Chamber of Architects, emphasised the important significance of personal exchange: “BAU 2023 reflects the current issues of the building industry. It is the ideal meeting place for architects and planners to discuss both innovative materials of the future and social issues such as affordable housing.”

    BAU project manager Matthias Strauss is already looking forward to the upcoming events in the BAU Network: “After the successful BAU, the entire team is already very much looking forward to the digitalBAU conference & networking premiere next July as well as the next digitalBAU in February 2024.”

    Internationality of visitors reaches record level
    At the top of the international visitor ranking of BAU are Austria, Italy and Switzerland. Thanks to strong growth, Poland and Turkey take fourth and fifth place. Overall, the international share is almost 80,000 visitors. This corresponds to 40 percent of the total number of visitors and marks a record figure. In percentage terms, the international share is thus still a good deal higher than the previous record result from 2019 (37 per cent).

    The number of Chinese visitors is particularly noteworthy. With 1,600 people, China is one of the top 10 visitor countries at BAU 2023, a positive surprise after the Corona restrictions on travel from China to foreign countries were only recently relaxed.

  • Creating livable buildings of the future with foresighted planning

    Creating livable buildings of the future with foresighted planning

    Was ist eigentlich ein „lebenswertes Gebäude“? Früher waren Häuser einfache Gebäude, in denen Menschen vor allem geschlafen und gegessen haben. Heute muss ein Gebäude mehr können: „Wir wollen uns darin wohlfühlen, zur Ruhe kommen, ohne Barrieren fortbewegen und am besten nachhaltig leben. Es schafft nicht nur einen Raum, sondern muss zu den Nutzern und deren Bedürfnissen passen – und zwar heute und in Zukunft. Erst dann sprechen wir von einem lebenswerten Gebäude“, erläutert Sören Eilers.

    Gebäude werden in der Gegenwart für die Zukunft errichtet
    Dabei haben sich die Anforderungen allein in den vergangenen 15 Jahren stark gewandelt: Die Denkweise der Menschen hat sich verändert, zudem herrschen regionale Unterschiede, wenn es um die Frage geht, was ein zeitgemäßes Gebäude ausmacht. Werden mancherorts nur noch Passivhäuser errichtet, so liegt der Fokus andernorts beispielsweise auf freien Lernkonzepten und offenen Räumen. Für Planer und Architekten bedeutet das, dass sie weit vorausdenken müssen. „Gebäude werden in der Gegenwart für die Zukunft gebaut, für die nächsten 30 bis 50 Jahre Nutzungszeit“, erklärt Marco Sperling. „Wir müssen in unserer heutigen Planung also bereits die Nutzungsmöglichkeiten für in ein paar Jahrzehnten bedenken. Dabei ist jedoch fast immer das Budget der limitierende Faktor.“

    Damit nicht genug. Neben den vom Auftraggeber gesteckten Rahmenbedingungen gibt es diverse gesetzliche Anforderungen, Normen und Verordnungen, die einzuhalten sind. Dabei sind sich die unterschiedlichen Regelwerke längst nicht immer einig. „Es gibt in Deutschland fast nichts, das nicht geregelt ist. Die Rahmenbedingungen der Auftraggeber sind oft verhandelbar, bei gesetzlichen Vorgaben ist das weitaus schwieriger“, weiß Sperling aus Erfahrung. Damit am Ende alle Wünsche, Bedürfnisse, Anforderungen und Vorschriften unter einen Hut gebracht werden können, ist eine intensive Abstimmung mit allen Beteiligten unerlässlich: „Der Abstimmungsbedarf wächst ständig und ist sogar in Zertifizierungsprozessen verankert. Das ist auch durchaus sinnvoll, damit es am Ende ein gutes Gebäude wird. Es gilt in jedem Fall: Je besser die Abstimmung von Beginn an, desto besser das Ergebnis!“ So werden im Idealfall alle fachbeteiligten Planer für Haustechnik, Statik, Tragwerk etc., die Verarbeiter, aber auch Nutzer und Auftraggeber sowie deren Interessensvertreter eingebunden.

  • Look to the future of construction technology

    Look to the future of construction technology

    It is a long way from the idea to marketable innovation – especially in the construction industry. There is a gap between technologies that work in the laboratory and the market that demands well-engineered and reliable products. The modular research and innovation building NEST of the Swiss research institutes Empa and Eawag aims to close this gap.

    The NEST (Next Evolution in Sustainable Building Technologies) was opened in 2016 and is located on the Empa campus in Dübendorf. The building consists of a building core with three cantilevered platforms. Temporary, thematically different building modules, so-called units, can be installed on it. In this way, research teams, architectural offices and companies from the construction industry can test and develop materials, technologies, products, energy concepts and usage concepts together at NEST. In the sense of a “living lab”, the installed units are actually used living and working environments.
    The “HiLo” unit is currently under construction on the top platform of NEST. Construction started in summer 2019. The unit is intended to demonstrate the possibilities in lightweight construction. In addition to an innovative roof construction, material-saving lightweight floors and an adaptive solar facade are used. During operation, the building technology is to be continuously optimized with the help of machine learning. The unit will officially open on October 6, 2021.

    The two-story “STEP2” unit is also being planned. Business and research partners implement them together in an open innovation approach. After its completion, which is planned for summer 2022, it will serve as an interdisciplinary innovation workshop and office environment. The unit’s central projects include a spiral staircase in the shape of a human spine, a building envelope that adapts to the external conditions, and a floor ceiling made with 3D printing.