Flexibility Is An Asset

Company Properties on Groß-Berliner Damm

Adlershof has traditionally been associated with science, high-technology and media. However, many medium-size businesses have found a home here as well. Especially the north-western part of Adlershof, turned to the centre of Berlin, magically attracts small to medium sized enterprises, says Martin Czaja of project developer BEOS. The company has been operating here since 2008. Since 2010, BEOS has been active as Asset Manager of two property... [more]

Urban Living Comfort

A Stroll in The Summer of 2015

Berlin Adlershof. It is sunny, students are taking their books out to the park. About 380 young people are living and working in the student village of Adlershof right on the campus of Humboldt University. To get to their next lecture they only have to cross the street. Since 2012, approximately 1,000 apartments have been built in Adlershof’s residential district Wohnen am Campus. The developments carried out here are no mass-market products of... [more]

Relaxed Living

Customised owner-occupied Flats in Berlin Adlershof

Adlershof is part of Berlin’s Treptow-Köpenick district which offers excellent outdoor recreation opportunities thanks to green areas such as Treptower Park, Plänterwald and Köllnische Heide. Inviting for a refreshing swim during the summer months, the nearby Greater Müggelsee Lake is considered to be one of Berlin’s most beautiful recreation areas. However, not only water sports enthusiasts enjoy coming to this place. In Adlershof, the City of... [more]

Living Where The Future Is Made

In Adlershof, Germany’s most modern start-up and technology hub, excellent residential opportunities will soon be up for grabs

Under the project name of GRAVITY, property developers NCC Deutschland will soon erect 52 attractive townhouses between Newton- and Katharina-Boll-Dornberger-Straße, fulfilling all desires for pleasant, sustainable and affordable living. A modern place with the greatest potential for the future, Adlershof is a picture-book science, business and media location. 15,000 jobs in various R&D and high-tech companies have made the city flourish.... [more]

Newton Moves to Adlershof

From summer 2013, an energy-plus development with 100 homes in both townhouses and apartment buildings will be started in the Wohnen am Campus district

The Newtonprojekt is tailor-made for joint building ventures that have come to discover the region south of Berlin. Over the coming years, approximately 1,000 flats will be built at the science and technology location of Adlershof. Planned by architects Deimel Oelschläger, dmsw and Zoomarchitekten, the Newtonprojekt is among the pioneers. From summer 2013, an energyplus housing scheme with roughly 100 owner-occupied flats on an area of 11,000... [more]

Ecological think niches for students

The Studentendorf Schlachtensee e.G. is among the new builders of the district Wohnen am Campus

By the winter semester of 2014/15, the cooperative intends to realise a housing project for 380 students and academic staff opposite some of Humboldt University‘s institute buildings. The aims are ambitious: The ten planned houses of the new student village in Adlershof are to go into operation as zero-energy buildings. One cornerstone to success is the standard passive house method for the living quarters. Photovoltaic solar systems on the... [more]

Corning Opens Technology Center at Adlershof in Berlin

New center will support optical connectivity technology solutions for Corning’s telecommunications segment customers

Through the establishment of this technology center in the Park, Corning will be able to pursue faster innovation, build upon its commitment to customer collaboration, and engage in a mix of potential industrial, academic, and technology activities. The new center is home to Corning Cable Systems’ Germany-based members of Corning’s global Technology organization. Its Adlershof Park location makes the center easily accessible from Corning Cable... [more]

Stormy times

Europe’s solar energy companies are facing troubling times. Competition from lowcost Chinese providers and cuts in government subsidies for solar energy have driven several leading German companies into insolvency. The trend has not left Adlershof entirely unscathed either – but experts believe in the opportunities the location has. Katrin Evers is to the point „The solar industry is having a very tough time of it at the moment“, says the press... [more]

A decentralized, regional approach

An interview with Axel Berg – Head of the German Section of the European Association for Renewable Energy (Eurosolar)

Is the energy revolution on the right track? We are at a stage where renewable energy can seriously assume responsibility for generating electricity in Germany. We're now at a crossroads: should be adjust our cable systems to meet the needs of renewable energy or simply switch our conventional power plants for large-scale wind farms in the North Sea, for example – with high-voltage line expansion measures that will provoke hundreds of citizens'... [more]

Tandem cells and catalysis research

Material researchers the world over would envy Klaus Lips for this laboratory

In no fewer than 18 growth chambers, the scientist from Berlin's Helmholtz-Zentrum will be developing new material combinations for third-generation solar cells and new, effi cient energy storage devices as of mid-2015. "This will allow us to produce and investigate a globally unique range of materials", says Klaus Lips, head of the project that has been christened EMIL (Energy Materials In-situ Laboratory Berlin). The considerable... [more]

Cooperation between Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and University of Applied Sciences is bearing new fruit

The head of the Competence Centre Thin-Film and Nanotechnology for Photovoltaics Berlin (PVcomB), Rutger Schlatmann, has assumed a professorship for solar cell technology at the university

Although lectures at the University of Applied Sciences in Karlshorst do not start until early October, Rutger Schlatmann is already looking forward to them. The physician has been heading up the Competence Centre Thin-Film and Nanotechnology for Photovoltaics Berlin (PVcomB) since 2008 and has now also assumed the position of full professor (W3) for "solar cell technology" at the university. This is a cooperation that offers numerous... [more]

Impetus for the energy revolution

While "green" electricity is a good thing, it has to become less reliant on the whims and fancies of nature if the energy revolution is to succeed

Innovative storage systems from Adlershof provide grid stability and ensure that clean energy is available even when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing. Electricity generated using wind and solar power facilities fluctuates as the weather conditions change – but the energy consumption of customers does not. In order to prevent electricity shortages, conventional coal and gas-fired power stations are operated – not the most... [more]

Scienion to partner with Maine Manufacturing for marketing of FAST® Slide products

Scienion AG and Maine Manufacturing, LLC, today announced an agreement on Scienion’s marketing of Maine Manufacturing’s FAST® protein array products. The non-exclusive distribution arrangement includes the worldwide marketing of the complete FAST® Slide product line. The FAST® Slide product line is built around the nitrocellulose coated FAST Slide which is used extensively for all protein array applications. The product line also includes the... [more]

Change of Management at SOLON Energy

Säuberlich to advise SOLON Energy after successful restructuring of the company

Anjan Turlapati is to take over the position of CEO at SOLON Energy GmbH. He will replace Stefan Säuberlich, who is shifting his focus onto new tasks but will remain at the Berlin solar energy company in a consultancy position for the months to come. Reason for the change in management is the successfully completed reorientation of SOLON Energy GmbH. The company has been able, in cooperation with new owner Microsol, to prove itself in a... [more]

Berlin Adlershof at the 27th EU PVSEC Frankfurt

24. - 28 Sept. 2012 // Ground 3 / E 27

The WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH, who develops and operates Germany`s leading Science and Technology Park in Berlin Adlershof, participates in the 27th EU PVSEC. Currently, times are tough for the German solar industry. However, small specialised companies seem to be escaping the problems faced by the sector's big names unscathed. The key to the company's success: good research conditions resulting in customer-specific, high performance products. New... [more]