Thyssenkrupp headquarters

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Aerial photo 2014
Thyssenkrupp headquarters
Building Q1, interior view
Building Q2 and way over the water axis

The Thyssenkrupp headquarters is the corporate headquarters of Thyssenkrupp AG in the west quarter of the city of Essen . The quarter is the core of the urban development project Krupp-Gürtel and stands exactly on the ground on which Krupp with the cast steel factory in Essen has its roots. The costs for the first construction phase of the headquarters are estimated at over 300 million euros.

history

The new building in Essen, and thus the concentration on the administration locations Essen and Duisburg, was decided in 2006. The first symbolic groundbreaking ceremony took place on June 12, 2007. The foundation stone was laid on September 5, 2008 in the presence of the two honorary chairmen of the Thyssenkrupp AG supervisory board, Berthold Beitz and Günter Vogelsang, the chairman of the supervisory board, Gerhard Cromme , as well as the then mayor Wolfgang Reiniger and the architects Philippe Chaix and Jürgen Steffens. The architecture comes from Chaix & Morel et associeés and JSWD Architects , who won the architecture competition advertised by ThyssenKrupp in 2006 . The topping-out ceremony followed on July 17, 2009. In the center of the Krupp belt, Thyssenkrupp has relocated a large part of the administration building with more than 100,000 square meters of building area and thus relocated the administration location from Düsseldorf to Essen. The headquarters were officially opened on June 17, 2010 in the presence of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation Berthold Beitz, the Prime Minister Jürgen Rüttgers , the Chairman of the Supervisory Board Gerhard Cromme and the Lord Mayor of Essen Reinhard Pass . The jobs of more than 2,000 employees from Bochum, Duisburg and especially Düsseldorf have been relocated to Essen. The employees started work on June 21, 2010. Most of them came from the Dreischeibenhaus in Düsseldorf , the former headquarters of the company, which had initially been vacant since the end of June 2010.

Main building Q1

Around 500 top management employees are housed in building Q1 , a gate-like, 50-meter-high, central building with 14 floors, through which you can look thanks to the glass facade. With this building, the Stuttgart engineering office Werner Sobek broke new technical territory, as the glass wall neither stands nor hangs, but is stretched vertically and horizontally like a tennis racket. The 25.6 by 28.1 meter glass facades are divided into 96 panes of white glass and yield up to half a meter when exposed to wind. The individual panes, which are built up in three layers (12 mm safety glass , 16 mm free space, 2 times 8 mm laminated safety glass with a 1.52 mm PVB sun protection film) and interconnected with silicone, weigh around 500 kilograms. Thanks to the vertical tension of 1770 N / mm², even violent shocks are absorbed. The edge seal required for this is also just under half a meter. Despite the large glass area, the building received the gold seal of approval from the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB e.V.), as the energy consumption is less than 150 kilowatt hours per square meter and year, which corresponds to about half the average consumption of modern office high-rises.

Outbuildings

From the beginning four more buildings, named Q2 , Q4 , Q5 and Q7 , as well as a parking garage were built. In Q2 there is a conference center for up to 1000 people as well as catering for employees and guests. Q5 and Q7 house offices for 220 and 300 employees, respectively.

After a year of construction, the company daycare center Miniapolis opened on August 1, 2012 for around 100 children of employees and residents of neighboring residential areas.

In spring 2014, three more administration buildings in the style of the headquarters in the western part of the site were completed. By the end of June 2014, around 1,000 additional employees from subsidiaries who were previously based in the city will gradually move into these buildings.

A hotel that was planned from the start and the ThyssenKrupp Academy for the Group's executives, who are to be trained there with the support of universities, will not be built for the time being.

In terms of energy and security, all buildings, including Q1, are monitored and controlled by a largely automated security and building control center set up by Siemens . Security is ensured in addition to six fire alarm systems, six voice alarm systems and sixty smoke aspiration systems, as well as around 350 cameras, an access control system and an intrusion alarm system equipped with sensors. This enables, among other things, contactless identification and counting of people. Energy-efficient controls take over the air conditioning and energy consumption in the rooms.

Outdoor area

In front of the central building Q1 is a 4800 square meter water axis, which is spanned by several connecting walkways between the individual buildings. On the occasion of the European Green Capital - Essen 2017 , an urban gardening project was opened on June 1, 2017 by draining the water in the basins and filling it with sand, gravel and earth. Citizens, including kindergarten groups and school classes, can plant vegetables here or linger on seating and a barbecue area. There is also a volleyball field. In September 2017, the water axis will be restored to normal and filled with water.

There are extensive green areas around the buildings. Conspicuous cubic signposts are located at every entrance.

Area overview from the south

literature

  • JSWD Architects and Chaix & Morel et Associés: "ThyssenKrupp Headquarters", JOVIS Verlag Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86859-090-6

Web links

Commons : ThyssenKrupp-Quartier  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ThyssenKrupp Quartier architecture competition, accessed in October 2015
  2. ^ Author: Frank Peter Jäger Title: Prinzip Tennisschläger Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 237 of Tuesday, October 12, 2010, page T6
  3. DerWesten.de of July 30, 2012: Thyssen-Krupp opens new day-care center with 100 places in Essen ; last viewed on September 12, 2012
  4. DerWesten.de of September 12, 2012: Thyssen Krupp erects three new office buildings in Essen ; last viewed on September 12, 2012
  5. ^ Siemens publication "Wir in Deutschland", March 2011
  6. Essen residents can now plant vegetables at ThyssenKrupp , in: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of June 2, 2017

Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 40 "  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 36"  E