To make future air traffic more environmentally friendly and climate-compatible, the DLR facility Technologies for Small Aircraft – short DLR Facility KF – was established in 2020, which operates the Innovation Center for Small Aircraft Technologies (INK). The INK focuses on the topics of electric flying and (inter-)urban mobility with regard to small aircraft against the backdrop of the vision of the Rhineland Revier as a so-called mobility area of the future.
The concept of electric flying plays a key role in climate-compatible aviation. The electrification of aircraft has the potential to locally minimize emissions and make mobility quieter and more efficient. Small aircraft can serve a dual purpose in this regard. On the one hand, they are ideal test platforms in which and with which new technologies – also for large aircraft – can be tested and demonstrated in a simple, quick, and cost-effective manner. On the other hand, small aircraft must also become climate-compatible themselves – both current and novel small aircraft have the potential to contribute to the mobility turnaround, e.g., in (inter-)urban areas.
The project aims to lay the foundation for its later construction and the research operation of the DLR in the so-called Aero-Park – a new planning area of the city of Würselen, aimed at aviation-affine innovative partners. The building combines several workplaces and thus enables the direct development and integration of new technologies in a specialized environment.
At the DLR location in Aachen Merzbrück, a hangar building is to be constructed at Aachen-Merzbrück airport with a hangar hall, repair workshop, test rooms, storage rooms, offices, meeting and social rooms, and rooms for further user-defined requirements. The planning takes into account, among other things, special requirements resulting from the operating model of the INK innovation center and the location as a mono-site.
The hangar building is to provide a capacity for approximately 120 employees at the Aachen Merzbrück location.
It will serve as a central location for researching, testing, and demonstrating technologies on the ground and in the air and offers the necessary offices, workshop spaces, and test rooms as well as the required direct access to the runway.
The direct access of the property to the runway of the airport is to be created via its own taxiway.
The DLR Facility KF (as a structural change project) significantly contributes to the creation of new, high-quality jobs and training places, as it is designed to bring innovative technologies and practices into application together with regional partners from science, business, and politics and to shape climate-compatible aviation with solutions from the Rhineland Revier. It contributes to the prosperity of the region and to a new social acceptance for pioneering aviation.
The hangar building is intended to be built according to the user's wishes according to the Silver Standard of the Sustainable Building Assessment System (BNB). As part of a BNB certification, the entire life cycle of a building is considered, taking into account ecological, economic, socio-cultural quality as well as technical aspects and processes.
For the hangar building, a space requirement was compiled based on the needs plan: //
- Office space, test rooms, seminar, technology, storage, measurement, and observation platform total: 2,100 m² //
- Hangar hall: 840 m²
Areas such as traffic areas (corridors, stairwells, etc.) and sanitary facilities are not included in these space requirements.
This is a construction measure according to the RZBau (Guidelines for the implementation of grant measures).
Scope of services //
The scope of services for general planner services of the hangar includes all necessary planning and monitoring services required for the measure LPH 2+3 and 4-9 as partial service sets according to the annex to §6, in particular the service profiles //
• Object planning buildings and interiors //
• Specialist planning structural planning //
• Specialist planning technical equipment ELT + HLS //
• Object planning traffic facilities + open spaces and civil engineering (canals) //
• Building physics //
• Fire protection planning //
The milestones for the implementation of the project are as follows: //
- Service start: Sept 2025 //
- Construction start: 4th quarter 2027 //
- Completion: mid 2030 //
The total costs of the project (KG 200-500) are estimated at €25.4 million net, and is divided into the following classification of KG: //
- KG 200 €1,200,000 //
- KG 300 €13,176,536 //
- KG 400 €7,441,760 //
- KG 500 €3,581,250 //
A staggered commissioning of the subsequently described services is intended.
Initially, in commissioning stage 1a, service phases 2 and 3 (preliminary planning and design planning) according to HOAI, or according to the annex will be commissioned. Here, partial services from further service phases are also to be called up.
The service phases 4 to 9 as partial services will be called in the further commissioning stages 1b and thereafter. There is no legal entitlement to total commissioning. Further information on the planned measure is available in the feasibility study as well as the other informational documents attached to the tender documents as "Procurement Document G - Planning and Informational Documents".
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Construction of Hangar Building for the DLR Facility Technologies for Small Aircraft (KF), Aachen Merzbrück - General Planning Services.
To make future air traffic more environmentally friendly and climate-compatible, the DLR facility Technologies for Small Aircraft – short DLR Facility KF – was established in 2020, which operates the Innovation Center for Small Aircraft Technologies (INK). The INK focuses on the topics of electric flying and (inter-)urban mobility with regard to small aircraft against the backdrop of the vision of the Rhineland Revier as a so-called mobility area of the future.
The concept of electric flying plays a key role in climate-compatible aviation. The electrification of aircraft has the potential to locally minimize emissions and make mobility quieter and more efficient. Small aircraft can serve a dual purpose in this regard. On the one hand, they are ideal test platforms in which and with which new technologies – also for large aircraft – can be tested and demonstrated in a simple, quick, and cost-effective manner. On the other hand, small aircraft must also become climate-compatible themselves – both current and novel small aircraft have the potential to contribute to the mobility turnaround, e.g., in (inter-)urban areas.
The project aims to lay the foundation for its later construction and the research operation of the DLR in the so-called Aero-Park – a new planning area of the city of Würselen, aimed at aviation-affine innovative partners. The building combines several workplaces and thus enables the direct development and integration of new technologies in a specialized environment.
At the DLR location in Aachen Merzbrück, a hangar building is to be constructed at Aachen-Merzbrück airport with a hangar hall, repair workshop, test rooms, storage rooms, offices, meeting and social rooms, and rooms for further user-defined requirements. The planning takes into account, among other things, special requirements resulting from the operating model of the INK innovation center and the location as a mono-site.
The hangar building is to provide a capacity for approximately 120 employees at the Aachen Merzbrück location.
It will serve as a central location for researching, testing, and demonstrating technologies on the ground and in the air and offers the necessary offices, workshop spaces, and test rooms as well as the required direct access to the runway.
The direct access of the property to the runway of the airport is to be created via its own taxiway.
The DLR Facility KF (as a structural change project) significantly contributes to the creation of new, high-quality jobs and training places, as it is designed to bring innovative technologies and practices into application together with regional partners from science, business, and politics and to shape climate-compatible aviation with solutions from the Rhineland Revier. It contributes to the prosperity of the region and to a new social acceptance for pioneering aviation.
The hangar building is intended to be built according to the user's wishes according to the Silver Standard of the Sustainable Building Assessment System (BNB). As part of a BNB certification, the entire life cycle of a building is considered, taking into account ecological, economic, socio-cultural quality as well as technical aspects and processes.
For the hangar building, a space requirement was compiled based on the needs plan: //
- Office space, test rooms, seminar, technology, storage, measurement, and observation platform total: 2,100 m² //
- Hangar hall: 840 m²
Areas such as traffic areas (corridors, stairwells, etc.) and sanitary facilities are not included in these space requirements.
This is a construction measure according to the RZBau (Guidelines for the implementation of grant measures).
Scope of services //
The scope of services for general planner services of the hangar includes all necessary planning and monitoring services required for the measure LPH 2+3 and 4-9 as partial service sets according to the annex to §6, in particular the service profiles //
• Object planning buildings and interiors //
• Specialist planning structural planning //
• Specialist planning technical equipment ELT + HLS //
• Object planning traffic facilities + open spaces and civil engineering (canals) //
• Building physics //
• Fire protection planning //
The milestones for the implementation of the project are as follows: //
- Service start: Sept 2025 //
- Construction start: 4th quarter 2027 //
- Completion: mid 2030 //
The total costs of the project (KG 200-500) are estimated at €25.4 million net, and is divided into the following classification of KG: //
- KG 200 €1,200,000 //
- KG 300 €13,176,536 //
- KG 400 €7,441,760 //
- KG 500 €3,581,250 //
A staggered commissioning of the subsequently described services is intended.
Initially, in commissioning stage 1a, service phases 2 and 3 (preliminary planning and design planning) according to HOAI, or according to the annex will be commissioned. Here, partial services from further service phases are also to be called up.
The service phases 4 to 9 as partial services will be called in the further commissioning stages 1b and thereafter. There is no legal entitlement to total commissioning. Further information on the planned measure is available in the feasibility study as well as the other informational documents attached to the tender documents as "Procurement Document G - Planning and Informational Documents".