‘Productivity, sustainability and health through air and water’ is Condair’s vision, and nowhere can this be seen more clearly than at the Norderstedt facility: the latest technologies for indoor environments provide a constant stream of fresh air – which gets rid of irritating draughts – and exceed all current environmental standards. The temperature remains constant between 22ºC and 26ºC, with the relative humidity staying at a healthy 40% to 60%. The advanced technology adjusts numerous individual factors making up the complex physical atmosphere to create a perfect, comfortable and healthy indoor environment. Condair employees enjoy innovative and healthy environments which comply with the very highest of standards.

Visitors and customers are also more than welcome to enjoy the complex nature and importance of indoor environments over the building’s 600 square metres: in areas on the theme of humidification and evaporative cooling, holographs demonstrate the functional principles of modern ventilation technologies and explain best case scenarios for indoor environments (e.g. the internal climate control on the Gorch Fock German Navy tall ship as it crosses the oceans), and a light wall provides real-time environmental data on the conditions inside the building, as well as weather data for all of Condair’s 17 international offices.

Just short of passive house standard thanks to high tech

Before Condair had even chosen to relocate to Norderstedt, it decided during preliminary planning sessions that the new facilities were to be constructed as sustainably as possible. The German Energy Saving Ordinance (EnEV) 2014 and a maximum heat demand of just ≤35 kWh/(m²·a) were selected as the minimum standards for the building. Once the construction was complete, it became clear that the building actually almost achieves passive house standard at full capacity: an outstanding result for company offices with warehouses and production facilities. With the mix of geothermal energy and photovoltaics, efficient and energy-saving ventilation technologies and sophisticated building automation and control systems (BACS), the Condair building has managed to perform almost 50% better than the German Energy Saving Ordinance (EnEV) 2014.

An extra 5,000 square metres up our sleeve for the future

The new Condair Logistics and Production site for EMEA and new sales office for Central Europe located in Norderstedt will also house the Condair Systems GmbH (formerly Draabe Industrietechnik GmbH) sales organisation focused on industrial and commercial end customers within the same 8,500-square-metre building. A site already set up for growth: at the moment, a total area of around 5,000 square metres lies ready for mid-term expansion. In fact, the current building has even been designed with this growth in mind: new units can be added onto the existing halls with very little construction work. Condair’s CEO Zimmermann says: ‘With our product portfolio, level of innovation and current sales structures, we have every reason to believe that we will not only maintain our position at the top, but will even expand it further. Norderstedt is set to play a substantial role in that.’

 

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