Lufthansa Technik: New building at the Hamburg home base

Lufthansa Technik AG continues investing in its Hamburg home base.
Starting in February, building work costing 20 million euros will be
under way in the eastern section of the technical base to develop
workshops, offices and facilities for the Central Materials
Technology department. As a result, this particularly skilled
high-tech area of the company will be concentrated in a single
location and amongst other things acquire a brand-new chemical
laboratory. Construction work is expected to be completed in the
spring of 2014.

The new six-storey complex will provide 6,000 square meters of
workshop floor space on two levels, with the Central Materials
Technology department on the second floor. The four floors above
this, totaling 8,000 square meters of gross floor space, will be used
for offices. The building will benefit from efficient insulation and
the use of rainwater and parts of it will have a green roof.

“With this new building, rather than going for expensive renovation
work and retaining inefficient structures, we are investing on a
sustainable basis and financing our future,” said Ralf Aljes, head of
Facility Management at Lufthansa Technik. The building will use the
existing plot ten times more intensively than the one- to two-storey
old buildings buildings, which have already been demolished.

Construction company Max Boegl has been selected as prime contractor
for the project while the SWP firm of architects from Hamburg will be
in charge of planning and design.

The new building continues Lufthansa Technik’s investment program
aimed at upgrading its base in Hamburg. Coming on the heels of a new
engine overhaul center, a separate building for innovation
engineering, the expansion of workshops specializing in the repair of
composite materials and the commissioning of a dedicated district
heating power station, the building will replace old, cost-intensive
office stock that is no longer appropriate to the present day.

The Central Materials Technology department is responsible amongst
other things for the assessment of components and systems, production
resource monitoring, testing of all fluids used from hydraulic oil to
cleaning agents, materials verification and the evaluation of new
technologies. The team of about 20 staff is composed of highly
qualified engineers and laboratory staff, whose extensive expertise
will be used well beyond the bounds of Lufthansa Technik.