Total Building Solution for Life Science Factory, Göttingen - Germany
Life Science Factory, Göttingen, Germany
Total Building Solution for Life Science Factory, Göttingen - Germany
Pharmaceuticals
Life Science Factory
Göttingen Germany
The Life Science Factory (LSF) was built in 2022 on the site of the former Sartorius factory
in Göttingen, Germany. Encompassing 3,300 square meters, the LSF offers researchers space
to explore their start-up ideas outside of the academic field. Open offices, a prototyping
workshop, and state-of-the-art laboratories provide optimal conditions for start-ups to drive
research, accelerate market launches, and increase their competitiveness. The LSF offers
everything they need: peer exchange, equipment, media access, security, and flexibility.
Nurturing life science start-ups requires more than modern office space. What is needed, first and foremost, are suitable labs that can be used flexibly, i.e, shared labs or flex labs. They are easy to customize
and can quickly be converted to meet new requirements. In addition, it was essential to meet structural
and safety-related requirements in accordance with German and European standards and to ensure
an efficient energy supply that keeps pace with demand. Another challenge: The LSF had to be move-in
ready in nine months.
Siemens
delivered a winning concept: all labs and their components, including fume
hoods and room and primary system controls, are integrated in the building
management platform Desigo CC and can be easily controlled and monitored. To meet new laboratory
requirements, the rooms are divided
into very small segments. This allows
operators to make changes to the room
layout at any time, even during operation and without rewiring. For example,
it is possible to quickly merge two separate labs into a single lab. The
Critical Environment Technology (CET) laboratory solution, based on our building
automation system Desigo, ensures that lab operations are energy-efficient and safe. Air flows and room
pressure values are continuously measured, monitored and adjusted according
to room use (for example, lowered at
night). In addition, Desigo Room Automation provides demand-based lighting
and shading control throughout the
building. The
Desigo CC Powermanager module monitors energy consumption. It is
linked to our cloud-based energy and asset
management platform Navigator and allows consumption to be documented and
analyzed at any time. Human Centric
Lighting, which simulates natural daylight and automatically adjusts lighting
conditions to the biorhythms of the
building‘s occupants, improves wellbeing and productivity.
A complete concept incorporating building automation, fire protection and
security solutions ensures maximum
safety: unsafe laboratory conditions,
such as faulty fume hood exhaust
behavior, are indicated right at the
fume hood, allowing users to react
quickly. The Sinteso fire detection
system offers earliest possible fire
detection and reports fires as soon as
they start. A fire damper solution and
the Transliner intrusion detection
system round out the security concept.
Thanks to a complete concept from Siemens, the Life Science Factory building gives start-ups maximum flexibility. The modular infrastructure allows researchers to quickly get started on lab experiments. If adjustments are needed, they can be made via drag and drop - without external support. In addition, the Siemens portfolio meets all requirements for energy efficiency, safety and sustainability, satisfying the criteria for certification according to the DGNB (German Sustainable Building Council) and ensuring compliance with legal standards. In just nine months, Siemens was able to implement a comprehensive concept for the LSF that combines flexibility, energy efficiency, safety and comfort - not least thanks to close cooperation with internal and external planners.