Felbermayr required a comprehensive solution for their new headquarters in Wels. Individual solutions were necessary for all new buildings and areas. The company wanted a building management system with both a high degree of automation and comfortable operation. It was important to achieve good energy optimization to ensure maximum resource conservation in the new buildings. Comfort and maximum transparency played a major role. For energy management, a system was essential that monitors energy consumption and provides reports. This can be an important tool in preventing high costs and damage. The company needed both video surveillance and a fire alarm system that had to be individually designed for special areas. Additionally, a central concern was to have a single point of contact for all technical matters to simplify communication and clearly define responsibilities. The regional proximity of the provider played a decisive role for Felbermayr to ensure quick response times for questions or problems. Another goal was the integration of all systems into a unified user interface to minimize training efforts and maximize user-friendliness. Due to the various usage areas (offices, workshops, social spaces), a flexible solution was required that addresses different requirements for temperature, air quality, and security. IT security combined with convenient remote access to all systems represented another important requirement.

Siemens has implemented a comprehensive solution for the new headquarters of Felbermayr in Wels. The building was equipped with state-of-the-art, efficient building technology, meeting all individual customer requirements. The new headquarters includes an 18,000 m² commercial area with a truck washing facility, paint shop, and an extra-wide brake testing station for heavy-duty vehicles. The complex is complemented by a three-story office and social building with a restaurant, childcare facility, and fitness center for approximately 250 employees. Siemens was involved from the beginning of the project and scored points with regional proximity through its Linz location. To meet the diverse requirements of the different building areas, Siemens implemented individual room control for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. In meeting rooms, ventilation is automatically reduced to 50% when not in use. Optimal energy efficiency is ensured by a sophisticated energy management system with numerous measurement, control, and regulation technology solutions. For example, the installed heat pumps can be used for both heating and cooling, and an integrated water quantity evaluation optimizes resource consumption. A special feature installed is the summer night cooling system: in the foyer and stairwells, roof windows automatically open at night when temperatures reach a certain level, allowing hot air to escape. The Desigo CC building management system forms the heart of the system and offers maximum transparency: the building control technology visualizes meters, error messages, and malfunctions of all systems – including those from third-party manufacturers. The cloud-based energy and asset management platform Navigator from Siemens enables continuous analysis of all consumption data to prevent high costs or damage at an early stage. Additionally, Siemens supplied the video surveillance and fire alarm system. This particularly demonstrated Siemens' flexibility and problem-solving expertise: in the truck washing facility, where conventional smoke detectors were not suitable due to humidity, steam, and high temperatures, Siemens solved the problem using heat cables. The halls, which are over nine meters high, required increased sensitivity of the fire detectors – no problem thanks to the extensive parameterization options of Siemens fire detectors. Both video surveillance and the fire alarm system are integrated into Desigo CC. User comfort is not compromised, even though the entire Felbermayr building control system is located on an external, secure server. This ensures high IT security while allowing access to the Siemens system from any PC via a virtual computer at any time.