Indian Summer in Siemensstadt Wincor Nixdorf moves into a new ...

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After the conversion and modernization
measures of the ex-mail-order business building,
the building works on the Technopark site
are going into the next round with number 16.
So at the end of July the development work on
Unit 1 will be restarted. Here a total of 10 000
square metres of offi ce space will be created –
a scheme that started off seven years ago but
has not yet been brought to completion. “The
building site has been half asleep since the year
2000, now we have raised the money to be able
to create new offi ce space,“ says Simone Kastner,
project leader in the Siemens Technopark.
According to Siemens Technopark Managing
Director Thorsten Kuhfeld, about 50 percent of
the new spaces have already been rented out.
“By March 2008 we will be able to hand over the
fi rst rooms to Fujitsu Siemens, who are already
tenants in Unit 1 but will move into an area
twice as large on the fi fth fl oor,” adds Kastner.
A complex of offi ces has also been planned for
the engineers of the neighbouring measuring
instruments factory.
But not only offi ce spaces are planned. Particularly
the ground fl oor area is getting a complete
facelift. Thus the foyer is being extended
What is happening on the Siemens Technopark site. Here you will fi nd reports about
the development on the site, what construction activities are planned or in progress
and what the planning for the green spaces and the infrastructure looks like.
Start of building for the
10 000 square metre new spaces in Unit 1
After a gap in building of seven years, offi ces and a new connecting walkway are going up.
Prospect of even more offi ce space in Unit 1
by a connecting walkway to the east. The Wellenstein
Company and also part of BCD Travel
are moving in there. “And perhaps even more
service providers will go in there with their customer
offi ces,” says Kuhfeld.
TACR needs more room and is extending Unit 8
The 7500 square metre production
and offi ce space that
the TACR Company is using at
the moment in Units 8, 27 and
28 of the Siemens Technoparks
are hardly suffi cient even now.
In the coming one to two years
they are going to be even
more cramped. The reason is
that thousands of gas turbine
airfoils that have been produced
in previous years in the
Moabiter gas turbine factory
are coming to TACR for reconditioning.
Just about enough time to
enlarge. So the company has
decided to extend its offi ces
in Unit 8. “It is planned to extend
the building by adding
an extra storey. Thus the whole
administrative area can be
put together in one complex,”
says Jacqueline Larsson from
the fi rm of architects responsible
“larsson architekten”. At
The offi ces of TACR will be built up on top of the existing building.
Photo: larsson architekten
the moment TACR has accommodated
its offi ces in various
buildings as an intermediate
solution. This intermediate
solution is to come to an end
shortly. Larsson is naming the
second week in January for the
start of building and, as it is
being done by dry construction,
it is anticipated that TACR
will be moving into the new
rooms as soon as July 2008.
New signs
for good orientation
On the Siemens Technopark
site a real forest of
signs fl ourishes – and yet it is
still diffi cult to fi nd your way
around. That is set to change in
October. The fi rm of architects
„larsson architekten“ has worked
out a standard signposting
system for the Technopark to
guide the visitor to his destination
without detours. “There
will be a system of pylons that
are built up in four levels,” explains
architect Jacqueline Larsson.
So at both entrances Rohrdamm
and Nonnendammallee
there will be three-metre high
pylons that will fi rst of all offer
an overview of the various
tenants in sectors A-D. On arrival
in the corresponding area,
signposting pylons will help
you fi nd the right building. In
front of the buildings there are
building pylons 2.40 metres
high and 60 centimetres wide
that list all the tenants in the
corresponding building, while
directly on the building 60 by
60-centimetre-large signs are
affi xed with numbers and entrance
instructions.
With the aluminium, plastic-coated
signs, the signposting
system in the Technopark
should not only guide you
more easily around the site,
it should also present a uniform
picture. And if there is a
change of tenant, the names
on foil can be simply taken off
and replaced.
Signposting pylons.
Photo: larsson architekten
Gerhard Schiller.
Since 2004 he has been development manager of the retail department of Wincor Nixdorf
and also manages the headquarters of the company in the Siemens Technopark.
IT solutions made in Berlin
Wincor Nixdorf provides banks and companies world
wide with software, hardware and consulting services
Park news: Mr Schiller fi rst
of all can you please explain
to us what Wincor Nixdorf produces?
Schiller: Wincor Nixdorf
is one of the leading sellers
worldwide of IT solutions for
retail banking and trading
companies. The comprehensive
portfolio of the company,
consisting of hardware, software,
consulting services and
services is aimed at optimizing
business processes for banks
and retail chains that have a
far-reaching network of subsidiaries,
reducing costs and
complexity and improving the
service to the end customer.
This includes system solutions
for lottery companies, petrol
station operators, community
catering or industrial companies.
The range of products
for retail banking covers the
complete spectrum from automation
and self-service systems
such as cash machines,
information and transaction
terminals or receipt printers.
For the operation of self-service
machines Wincor Nixdorf
offers software solutions with
which not only their own but
also the machines of other manufacturers
can be operated.
We have also developed an in-
ternationally-geared software
solution for internet or telephone
banking.
Wincor Nixdorf offers retail
companies till systems and the
corresponding software for sales,
information systems and
also solutions for branch automation
such as electronic shelf
labelling and reverse vending
machine systems. A further focus
consists in the integration
of the branches in the company-wide
IT infrastructure.
PN: How long has your
company been on the Siemens
Technopark site?
Schiller: Our innovation
and development centre has
been on the Siemensstadt site
since 1995.
PN: Why move now?
Schiller: On the one hand
our present lease contract on
the Siemens Campus, Unit 4
was ending and we had the
task of gearing ourselves to
the market in Berlin and Brandenburg.
Furthermore we are
bursting out at the seams with
regard to space and processing.
As we work in various
buildings on the campus, we
had long ways to go. This led
to interrupted processes in development
and quality control
and therefore higher cost.
PN: How many staff do you
employ and in what areas?
Schiller: The innovation
and development centre in
Berlin with 200 staff at present
is an essential component of
our growth strategy, responsible
for the development and
provision of future solutions,
systems and products and onsite
support. Highly qualifi ed
people are working on this
mainly moulding the innovations
with their knowledge of
the trade. Furthermore here
on site about 50 members of
Redesigning on the Quellweg in full swing
The reorganization works of the car
parks on the Quellweg will last until
the end of the year. Siemens Technopark
Managing Director Thorsten Kuhfeld informed
us. Since August extensive roadworks
have been carried out in this spot,
which has caused annoyance in many
places “Perhaps we should have given our
tenants rather more extensive information
about these measures,” admits Kuhfeld.
The fact remains however that in this
spot car parking spaces and bicycle stands
had to be removed as these were on a plot
of land that had already been sold in June
2006. “Previously neither the building on
it nor the land itself was being used with
the result that the Siemens Technopark
The new home of Wincor Nixdorf
could continue to use the parking spaces,”
explains Kuhfeld. The situation has now
changed however and new roads, green
spaces and replacement parking spaces
will have to be created. About 30 parking
spaces are planned – that is about two
thirds of the previous spaces - that are
placed on both sides of the road. In addition
to that new bicycle stands will be provided
as the old ones were already about
40 years old and are in urgent need of modernization.
“Moreover the gate system
will get a further entrance and the fence
in this spot will be renewed in such a way
that it fi ts into the total appearance of the
Technopark fencing,” Kuhfeld goes on.
The Berlin water companies are using the
Interview
staff from the business consulting
sector with a focus on
trade and banking, the service
division, responsible for the
customer-support of the IT solutions
and also the relevant
sales departments.
PN: What advantages does
the Siemens Technopark offer
for your company?
Schiller: Our new home
offers us the most up-to-date
infrastructure in an optimal
space for development, quality
control, service, sales and
consulting with short routes
and ideal connection to public
transport such as Tegel Airport
and the railway stations. Moreover
the management of the
Berlin Siemens Technopark
was able to offer us a lease in
line with market prices over a
period realistic for planning
and therefore received our
acceptance.
present building operations to renovate
their foul and storm water sewers. In addition
here too the green and recreational
spaces will be redesigned.
Further information can be obtained from
the Project Leader Simone Kastner,
telephone number: 386 31621,
Mail: simone.kastner@siemens.com
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