Lufthansa Technik is building a new facility at its home base in Hamburg at a cost of 20 million euros. Work is expected to be completed in the spring of 2014.
The new facility will house 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. 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.
“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 10 times more intensively than the one- to two-storey old buildings buildings, which have already been demolished.
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.