- Investment of CHF250 million creates climate neutral campus for 1,700 colleagues
- State-of-the-art sustainability flagship built by combining real and digital worlds
- Inauguration of R&D facility marks final addition to the Siemens Campus in Zug
- Siemens Smart Infrastructure business aims to advance technology for a greener future
Siemens
today inaugurated a new Research and Development (R&D) facility in the
presence of Swiss Economy Minister Guy Parmelin, Canton Zug Government
Councilor Silvia Thalmann-Gut and Roland Busch, the President and CEO of
Siemens AG, to mark the completion of its CHF250 million investment and the
seven-year construction of its climate-neutral campus in Zug, Switzerland.
- Upgrades to help improve infrastructure, support operational excellence and enhance student living-learning experience
As part of its 10-year strategic plan, ‘Transformation Morgan
2030: Leading the Future,’ Baltimore-based Morgan State University (MSU) has
partnered with Siemens on its journey to becoming a smart and connected campus
of the future. Improvements currently underway include implementing a series of
modernization upgrades to the university’s heating, ventilation, and air
conditioning (HVAC), security, and fire and life safety systems with a focus on
energy efficiency, resiliency and sustainability. All work is umbrellaed under
a master service agreement between Maryland Clean Energy Center, Siemens and
MSU to support the university’s campus transformation.
The University of
Birmingham, in partnership with Siemens, is combining digital sensor and
analytics technologies, artificial intelligence, decentralized energy
generation and storage, renewable energy and concepts that help change users’
behaviour to transform the university’s Edgbaston and Dubai campuses into the
world’s smartest global campus, creating a ‘Living Lab’ where research,
teaching and learning all benefit from access to new data and
connectivity.
- Joe Kaeser, Horst Seehofer and Dr. Florian Janik present winning design
- Important milestone reached in this €500-million project
- Strong symbol for the state of Bavaria, the city and Siemens
- Construction work to be performed in stages from 2016 through 2030
The "Siemens Campus in Erlangen," which is being planned as Siemens' largest location worldwide, will be built according to the design drafted by the architecture firm KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten of Frankfurt, Germany. This decision was made today in Erlangen by the jury comprised of high-caliber stakeholder representatives and experts from related fields. "We're building the Siemens Campus in Erlangen to provide a home to top researchers from all over the world. When the political, business and scientific communities work hand in hand, that's the best investment in Germany's future as an innovation hub," said Joe Kaeser, President and CEO of Siemens AG, during the announcement in Erlangen. "The urban development design implements our objective of creating a campus of the future that will benefit our customers and employees, but also the entire area, over the long term," said Kaeser.
- Launch of urban development competition between twelve firms of architects
- Construction work to begin at the end of 2016
At its meeting yesterday, Erlangen City Council approved a decision of principle giving the go-ahead for an architectural design competition for the new Siemens Campus in Erlangen. This marked a further milestone for the project, which is important not only to the city but to the entire metropolitan region of Erlangen / Nuremberg.
- Study confirms feasibility of new Siemens Campus in Erlangen
- Investment volume expected to total about €500 million
- Benefits for Siemens and for Bavaria as a business location
- Next step: Design competition
The state of Bavaria and the city of Erlangen have pledged their support for the planning and construction of the new Siemens Campus Erlangen. After a study initiated some months ago by Siemens confirmed the feasibility of the €500-million project, Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer, Erlangen's mayor Siegfried Balleis, Siemens President and CEO Joe Kaeser and Siemens Chief Financial Officer Ralf P. Thomas signed declarations of intent relating to the project at a ceremony held in Munich's Prinz-Carl-Palais. "By relocating our business units to a modern campus in Erlangen we are underscoring Siemens' long-term commitment to this greater metropolitan area. Together with the state of Bavaria and the city of Erlangen we have succeeded in creating attractive guidelines for this forward-looking project, which will benefit the population of the region and the state as well as our own employees," said Joe Kaeser. In a next step, specifications will be defined for a design competition.
- Investment of €1 billion planned in Germany, €500 million for new Technology Campus in Erlangen
- Part of €2 billion global investment strategy in 2023 for boosting growth, innovation and resilience across all regions
- Further investments in Europe and the U.S.
- New campus to become global development and manufacturing hub and nucleus for technology activities for industrial metaverse
- Erlangen location to promote and accelerate ecosystem of partners from business and scientific communities
- Transition to environmentally sustainable net-zero location
Siemens is
rigorously executing its announced €2 billion investment strategy. Of this
amount, the company plans to invest around €1 billion in Germany, thereby boosting
the country’s innovative strength. In the presence of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz,
the technology company today announced the establishment of its new Technology Campus in Erlangen, Germany, with
investments of around €500 million in the expansion of development and manufacturing
capacities. As a result, Siemens is establishing the Erlangen location as a
global research and development hub and the nucleus of global technology
activities for the industrial metaverse. These steps will enable Siemens to
accelerate its overall growth, drive innovation and increase its resilience.
- Zsolt Sluitner to hand over leadership
of the business as of March 1, 2024
- Jörg Vocke has been working at
Siemens for 20 years and has many years of experience in Siemens Real Estate’s business
- Current focus areas: Sustainable and
value-oriented growth as well as transformation of global office and production
locations
Effective
March 1, 2024, Jörg Vocke (55) will become the new CEO of Siemens Real
Estate (SRE), the real estate company of Siemens. In this role, he will report
directly to Ralf P. Thomas, Chief Financial Officer and member of the
Managing Board of Siemens AG. As a corporate real estate manager, SRE is
responsible for Siemens’ global real estate portfolio and continuously drives
the further development of this portfolio in a sustainable, socially
responsible and value-oriented manner. SRE also plays a key role in Siemens’ €2
billion global investment strategy for getting production locations fit for the
future.