Sustainably flexible: The Airport Business Centre (ABC) in the Munich Airport Business Park (MABP) in Hallbergmoos, in the immediate vicinity of Munich Airport, is using the merger of two office units for the logistics service provider Gebrüder Weiss GmbH for conversion measures that are all about sustainability, flexibility and future-proofing. With each further conversion and new move, long-term sustainable improvements are created for an even more attractive working environment. Since its opening in 1994, ABC has stood for infrastructural advantages and ultra-modern working. Now the owner is also looking to meet all future requirements for a modern and flexible office building. Targeted modernization work will literally pave the way for more flexibility, cost savings and environmental protection for new tenants. The flexible structure of the building not only allows office units such as those of the tenant Gebrüder Weiss to be combined on one floor, the newly created areas are also deliberately adapted to the requirements of sustainability, workplace flexibility and cost efficiency. In this way, the landlord is taking a decisive step towards the future with each new move or relocation, with many more to follow.
The Austrian logistics company Gebrüder Weiss GmbH has had offices at ABC since 2017, to which further office units have been added following the takeover of a partner company. Instead of relocating, the company made a conscious decision to remain in the modern and conveniently located ABC premises. This is because all the conditions are in place here to meet the constantly growing demands on IT and energy efficiency by merging the various units and thus always being at the cutting edge of technology. In the approximately 270 square meters of office space, work was primarily carried out on the electronics in the floor tanks. For around 20 years, state-of-the-art fiber optic cabling has been providing fast connections to the World Wide Web, which can now be assigned even more flexibly and adapted to the tenant’s desk layout and latest IT thanks to the new CAT 7 brush trunking.
Focus on energy efficiency
The CAT 7 cables are future-proof and can realize data transmissions of up to ten Gigabit Ethernet. But these are by no means the only innovations to be found under the sound-absorbing deep-pile carpet of the new unit. New pipework for the heating system has also been installed here and converted to a new, even more efficient system. Together with an energy-saving cooling ceiling system, this ensures that the optimum room temperature is achieved as economically, effectively and, above all, environmentally friendly as possible by using groundwater for cooling. In conjunction with the installation of new glare-free and highly energy-efficient lighting technology, the resulting energy savings lead to a reduction in costs, which further increases the attractiveness of the ABC for existing and future tenants. However, this is just the beginning of numerous measures on the way to a lower-emission future for the building: some of the almost 1,000 parking spaces have already been equipped with charging points for electric vehicles and the owner is working with tenants to develop needs-based solutions. In addition, concrete plans are currently underway to use solar and photovoltaic technology to generate a large proportion of the energy required to operate the building itself, making the ABC even more environmentally friendly as a business location.
A green location
As a state-of-the-art office and conference center, the Airport Business Centre has been at the heart of the Munich Airport Business Park, located in the immediate vicinity of Munich Airport, since 1994. With a total area of almost 75,000 square meters, it comprises three building units – an office building, a conference center and a multi-storey parking lot – which impress tenants with their innovative architecture and excellent connections to Munich and the airport that gives the building its name. The service concept, which goes far beyond simply renting out office space, also includes employee showers and changing rooms as well as the option of using the company’s own shuttle bus line to the Hallbergmoos S-Bahn station, the company restaurant and the café-bar with store. In addition to the tastefully designed park and green area with an embedded biotope, ABC is setting new standards for the future-oriented design of the working environment without losing sight of the environmental aspect. In the future, work will not only have to be increasingly flexible, but also much more sustainable and greener. The modernization measures and plans with which ABC is addressing these future issues are further proof of the attractiveness and, above all, the future security of the MABP site.
Images © Municipality of Hallbergmoos, Photographer: Manfred Zentsch
