Endress+Hauser Flow, New Work Infrastructure

SOLTIC is project man­ag­ing an excit­ing new work infra­struc­ture project for its client in the field of mea­sure­ment and automa­tion tech­nol­o­gy: Endress+Hauser Flow is design­ing new work­ing envi­ron­ments for the offices in admin­is­tra­tion and pro­duc­tion for its employ­ees at the Reinach (BL) site. The imple­men­ta­tion of this change process requires the grad­ual remod­el­ling of approx. 14,000 m² of office space for admin­is­tra­tion and pro­duc­tion. This is rough­ly equiv­a­lent to the area of a res­i­den­tial neigh­bour­hood with 50 detached hous­es. 

Space and room programme for activity-based working

The focus of the new space util­i­sa­tion is “Activ­i­ty Based Work­ing”. This work con­cept allows employ­ees to freely choose their work­place depend­ing on the type of activ­i­ty. Instead of hav­ing fixed desks, they have var­i­ous work­ing envi­ron­ments at their dis­pos­al that are spe­cial­ly adapt­ed to dif­fer­ent tasks and activ­i­ties. These include, for exam­ple, qui­et zones, com­mu­nal areas and col­lab­o­ra­tion zones. 

We are real­is­ing this project in close col­lab­o­ra­tion with the project team from Endress+Hauser Flow and Hun­zik­er Bürode­sign GmbH. SOLTIC is assum­ing the role of project man­ag­er in this project and in this func­tion is respon­si­ble, among oth­er things, for con­vert­ing the space require­ments into an occu­pan­cy plan as well as the over­all sched­ul­ing and coor­di­na­tion between the project par­tic­i­pants. Change man­age­ment is led by an expert from the HR depart­ment. The office lay­outs are devel­oped in work­shops with the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the respec­tive depart­ments. These are led by Hun­zik­er Bürode­sign. 

Sched­ul­ing is chal­leng­ing and requires a large num­ber of con­ver­sion and relo­ca­tion stages. Each phase must be pre­cise­ly planned and timed to ensure the con­ti­nu­ity of work process­es. We face this chal­lenge togeth­er every day.