We are glad to announce that our brand-new More-Space platform for More-Space-Office, More-Space-Education and More-Space-Mobility is now online under http://more-space.ch/.
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Visit us from 19th - 20th May in Mannheim (Germany) at the exhibition "Moderne Kommune" to discover your space potential! More infos at http://www.moderne-kommune.de/.
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Sustainable Utilization
The IT service provider DATEV eG uses the dynamic simulation tool More-Space-Office for their IT Campus 111 in Nürnberg (Germany) that is currently under construction. Thus, DATEV leads the way in implementing innovative workplace concepts and sustainable utilization in office buildings.
DATEV identified different requirements for a modern office location and the individual needs for different employee types: open space workplaces, decentralized areas of retreat, meeting- and project rooms, a central conference center, central test center for software tests, a cafeteria and well located coffee points. With the help of the More-Space-Office simulation DATEV could not just estimate the number of employees with specific work typology (part time rate, absent rate, tasks, hierarchy, ..) that can move into the IT Campus 111. They could also evaluate alternative scenarios with modified workplace configurations and employee behaviors and therefore optimize the planning process for the IT Campus.
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Project organisations are complex, dynamic, open socio-technical systems that are designed to complete each other in the domain of building construction. A planning experiment with 200 probands showed, that the early integration of experts for building services e.g. increases the job satisfaction and reduces the period needed for the project development, but the quality of results and necessary manpower needed remains more or less identical. We present strategies dealing with the increasing complexity of integrated optimization to optimize buildings, machinery and building services.
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Development Expertise
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The development of corporate buildings and the structure of workplaces changed dramatically during the last number of decades. Studies show that the utilization of e.g. office space lies at 5% over its life cycle – so we need to rethink the design and the management of corporate facilities. Buildings which are heated, cooled and maintained but remain largely unused over time are economically and ecologically inefficient!
The More-Space Tool is able to demonstrate each company its maximum benefit, as the model is customizable and supports rapid prototyping – a relevant characteristic for decision makers as managing directors, facility managers and others. The More-Space approach underlines that a successful achievement of the FM-potentials needs interaction between at least four competences: Organisational development, Space Management, Real Estate Planning/Development and Simulation – the high potentials for more efficient utilization often remain undetected until the usage of dynamic event-based computer-simulations.
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Sustainable Utilization
Governmental aims and corporate social responsibility, both force the reduction of energy-demand and CO2-emissions, whereas the space utilization for office purposes over lifetime within common office organisations is estimated at 5%. From an economic and ecologic point of view it is irresponsible and irrational that office buildings remain out of human activity about 95% over their lifetime.
A sustainable approach for the optimal use of built (office) environment is given by the More-Space-Office tool. It is a simulation software built on the know-how of real estate development, facility management and mathematical modelling and simulation that aims to improve and optimize the utilization of workplaces in office buildings. Current results of spatial management studies show impressive saving potentials up to 50% and more of their current workplaces within medium- and large-size companies.
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Sustainable Utilization
Utilization rates of office buildings are somewhere around 15 to 20% and therefore offer a huge potential for economic and ecological advance. Improvement of space utilization means improvement of space management, which is a long and difficult process of testing, selecting and offering alternative working (time) models.
More-Space-Office is a discrete event simulation (DEVS) that models the dynamic behavior of employees, workplace demands and flexible workplaces. The simulation tool provides versatility and flexibility in computing the utilization for a specified behavior and in estimating workplace demands. It is an innovative, fast and cost effective tool that enables decision makers to test multiple potential scenarios with respect to their utilization efficiency to optimize workplace demands for the dynamic behavior of the employees.
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Developers of real estate and infrastructure and builders in general are faced with the task of designing, steering and improving socio-technical systems that deal with project organisation, buildings and the use of the buildings. Due to the dynamic and complexity in these systems, almost all of the decisions faced by the aforementioned groups of people are based upon incomplete or insufficient information. Simulation tools allow to model these complex systems and their results can support decision making processes.
But successful model deployment requires more than just a correct model, fed with the right input; it has to address the needs (and questions) of those who need to base their decisions on the outcome. Therefore it is indispensable for modeling real-life systems, that the simulation specialists involved need a profound knowledge of the business, while the business experts have to understand possible simulation models and approaches.
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The study shows that a change of space management in public secondary schools in Austria can lead in average to a reduction of 300.000€ in operating costs per year or a reduction of 40% of the current space. This huge potential can be fully exploited by moving lectures from specialized lecture rooms to the class rooms or by moving lectures from fixed class rooms to shared course rooms.
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More-Space-Office is an event-based computer simulation that enables modelling of different workplace types in office buildings, their dynamic utilization over time, the management of rooms and the behavior of employees. It also simulates the allocation of required space to available space-time-slots. The simulation helps to answer concrete questions, in particular about the intense utilization of workplaces and the number of required workplaces under certain constraints. Discover our application platform directly at http://more-space.ch!
The More-Space-Office simulation can precisely answer typical questions like:
The biggest challenge is to find an optimal solution for both economical and business management reasons that also fits the employees desire and needs. Even though our long experience in FM we tackled these challenges with the use of the More-Space-Office simulation.
Helmut Hamer, Head of Facility Management Services, Datev eG
More-Space-Education is an event-based computer simulation that enables modelling of different management rules in school buildings, their dynamic utilization over time, the management of rooms and the behavior of classes and teachers. It also simulates the allocation of required space to available space-time-slots. The simulation helps to answer concrete questions, in particular about the intense utilization of class and course rooms and the number of required rooms under certain constraints. Discover our application platform directly at http://more-space.ch!
The More-Space-Education simulation can precisely answer typical questions like:
The change from class room principle to course room principle allows an reduction of 40% of the rooms in a school building; this corresponds to a reduction of about 300.000€ in operating costs per year.
MSc Arch | MAS UZH Real Estate Alexandra Kovacs, Associate Director, CBRE (Zurich) AG
MSc., Project Manager
andrea.rojas@gesim.ch
Leitung Business Development
+43 676 710 9937
yulia.kartysh@gesim.ch
Univ.Prof. Prof. h.c. Dipl.-Ing.
Ordinarius for Real Estate Development and Management
Founder and Managing Director
+43 664 6104993
+49 1523 105 8732
dietmar.wiegand@gesim.ch
CTO, Lead Development
+41 76 786 60 77
christoph.koerner@gesim.ch
Nürnberg, Germany
DATEV eG is an IT Servide Povider with about 18.000 employees
Discrete event simulation for offices, Link: Datev eG
Luzern, Switzerland
D4 Business Center Luzern with financial support of Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI)
165 ha Area Development of Swiss Insurance SUVA (Schweizerische Unfallversicherung)
Partner: red KG; SUVA, Link: D4 Business Village
Köln, Germany
BASF AG and Seecampus Niederlausitz
A passiv house school campus built with financial support of BASF AG Schwarzheide
Partner: BASF AG, media k GmbH, Link: Seecampus Niederlausitz
Vienna, Austria
Vienna University of Technology with financial support of Center of Innovation and Technology (ZIT)
Simulation framework for improved dynamic use of lecture halls
Partner: dwh GmbH, Link: Press Release
Basel, Switzerland
Johnson Controls with financial support of Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI)
Improved combined sheduling and routing of Facilities Services
Partner: pom+Consulting AG, Link: Johnson Controls
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