In front of the gates of the Hamburg AIRBUS factory in Finkenwerder, property team AG is developing an up to five-storey, architecturally sophisticated and sustainable service center.The building will be the new main entrance for Airbus and will also contain other uses.In the future, three buildings will house the AIRBUS visitor center, a hotel, a supermarket and various office and smaller retail areas.In addition to the representative entrance gesture for Airbus, Finkenwerder will have a distinctive “city entrance” at this point.
“The ElbAir is of great importance for Hamburg,” said Senator Leonhard at the topping-out ceremony.It will strengthen the connection between Airbus and the Finkenwerder district.A sustainable building requires a regenerative energy supply.Therefore, no fossil fuel will be used to heat and cool the future ElbAir, not even in very cold weather.The energy is generated with heat pumps, which use the ground and the ambient air as an energy source.The ground serves as a large energy store, in which waste heat from cooling and heat from the environment is introduced in summer and extracted for heating in winter.The heat pumps can be supplied with power from regeneratively generated electricity.In this way, regenerative electricity is also generated on the property itself with a PV system, which is used directly on site to drive the building services systems or to charge e-vehicles.The hot water for the hotel is also generated regeneratively with the heating system, with a solar system also supporting the hot water generation.The façade consists of Alucobond and corresponds to an area of 3,200 m².The EPD-certified material can be almost completely recycled and thus returned to the material cycle.
