With a symbolic ground-breaking ceremony representatives of FACC AG, from the Province of Upper Austria and the borough of St. Martin officially gave the starting signal for the building of the new FACC Technology Center. “The new Technology Center and the investments associated with this made by FACC are powerful factors for the economic and research location of Upper Austria. It is future-oriented jobs in particular that will also be created in the central district", Economics Secretary Viktor Sigl happily expressed.
This investment means that the leading Austrian aviation supplier will lastingly secure its growth strategy and will develop essential technologies for the aircraft of tomorrow there, which will be used in the three corporate divisions. The company will thereby be pooling its technical expertise at the new location and strengthening the interdisciplinary cooperation. “In future the new Technology Center will be the hub of our worldwide activities in the research and development field“, explained Walter Stephan, CEO at FACC AG. In this way the Research and Development Department as well as the Engineering Departments of the Aerostructures, Engines & Nacelles und Interiors Divisions will be combined there and furthermore closely linked with the company’s own engineering subsidiaries in Vienna, Bratislava and Shanghai.
The Technology Center as well as a modern Engineering Test Center will be built in the next two years on the 50,500-square metre plot that borders on the existing locations Plant 2 and Plant 3. Both buildings with construction costs of 22 million Euros are part of a comprehensive investment programme in the field of research and development, providing in total for a volume of 54 million Euros. The planned completion date is July 2013. Then the approx. 500 employees will be able to begin their work. This will include researching new materials, methods and technologies as well as developing new systems and components as well as production processes. In addition the attached Engineering Test Center offers analysis and test installations according to state-of-the-art technology, optimally tailored to the products, materials and processes to be tested. This will considerably expand the practical simulation from evaluating newly developed aircraft components.
Brief description of the architecture
"Modularity - Identity – Representative Nature"
The architecture of the new Technology Center takes into account the demands of pioneering research, visibly portrays the identity of the company and represents its own character to the outside world. “The new building with its modern architecture is to reflect the innovative strength of FACC and support the efficient brainstorming of our employees“, is the opinion of Robert Machtlinger, COO at FACC. An open construction and short routes is intended to promote the communication and the trans-departmental cooperation. The plans followed the objectives of a high level of flexibility and modular room partitioning. Experts worked out a modern office and workplace concept for the building jointly with FACC employees.
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