Heads Project: New Work and New Mobility - 760 E-chargers for new office building including transformer

Coming to the office carbon-neutral: What was previously only possible by bike or public transport, future employees in the new office building Heads in Aschheim will also be able to do on a large scale with electric cars. And without fear that their electric car's battery won't have enough for the return journey. To this end, the project developer Rock Capital Group has signed a contract with the Munich Municipal Utilities (SWM).

"With the Heads office development, we have not only rebalanced the topics of health and digitalization as the first Immune Office, but also the need for New Work and sustainability," explains Peter G. Neumann, managing partner at Rock Capital Group.

Original tenant: Wirecard

A separate transformer station allows for the perspective to equip all 440 parking spaces in the parking garage, the 100 outdoor spaces, and all 220 underground parking spaces with E-charging points - up to 760 in total. The intelligent load management system ensures that the electric cars are charged successively and that load peaks are avoided. The building, which was originally to be remodeled for Wirecard AG, was newly conceptualized by Rock Capital Group in the wake of the Wirecard insolvency and the subsequent corona pandemic.

"The central question of the project development, which encompasses around 250 million euros, is how an office complex must be built to ensure it remains future-proof for the next decades," Neumann continued, "more and more companies are striving to achieve climate neutrality as quickly as possible. In addition to the energy efficiency of the buildings, the type of mobility for employee commutes and company vehicle fleets significantly determines the ecological footprint."

Charging points for e-bikes, showers for cyclists

While air purifiers, virus filters, movement areas, and vegetation set new standards in terms of health, the question of mobility is also being redefined. The building includes sufficient showers for cycling employees as well as bicycle parking spaces, which also have charging facilities. The high-performance transformer station for the parking garage is the second component.

Annual CO₂ saving potential up to 1,000,000 kilograms

According to the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR), the average commute in 2021 was 16.95 kilometers one way, totaling 33.9 kilometers round trip. An analysis by the insurance company DA Direkt shows that CO₂ emissions for combustion vehicles average 162.5 grams per kilometer, including the production of fuel. An electric car, on the other hand, emits about 15 grams of CO₂ per kilometer when using green electricity. Therefore, for the average commute of 33.9 kilometers, the CO₂ output of a combustion engine vehicle is 5.5 kilograms per day. With full occupancy of the Heads parking spaces with fossil-fuel-driven cars, this represents a CO₂ burden of 4,180 kilograms per day.

If all employees drove electric vehicles...

In contrast, the green electricity-powered electric vehicle emits only 508.5 grams per day for the same commute. With full occupancy of the Heads parking spaces with electric cars, this corresponds to emissions of 386.46 kilograms per day. The average number of working days in Bavaria is 248. Therefore, the CO₂ emissions for a working year would be about 95,842 kilograms for electric vehicles. The balance for combustion vehicles is significantly worse: 1,036,640 kilograms of CO₂ emissions per year. According to a calculator by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the difference of nearly 941,000 kilograms of CO₂ could fly a small town with nearly 3,800 inhabitants from Munich to Mallorca and back once.