(Dresden, May 8, 2024) Today, SachsenEnergie Board Member for Human Resources Lars Seiffert celebrates the topping-out ceremony with those responsible for construction on the site of the Dresden-Reick innovation location right next to the Reick power plant. The new training center will combine the two existing training facilities in Dresden-Reick and Dresden-Südvorstadt (Hahnebergstraße). “Every year, over 50 trainees and dual students start their careers with us. With the new training center, we are investing in the specialists of tomorrow who will play a key role in shaping the energy transition. We need strong training with the best conditions. Today, we have come a step closer to this goal,” says a delighted Lars Seiffert.
The new training center will consist of the renovated main building and a new building. Renovation work on the main building will begin in early 2025. Construction of the new building began in June 2023. This has an area of 1,850 square meters. With the topping-out ceremony, all the work on the shell has been completed, so that the interior work and the design of the outside area can now follow. Thanks to the modern and barrier-free building infrastructure of the new joint training location, short distances guarantee even closer cooperation between the training teams and promote an interdisciplinary corporate culture. The new training center offers trainees professional workshops, changing facilities, bright and large seminar rooms, a spacious outdoor recreation area and indoor and outdoor catering. There are also parking spaces for bicycles and cars as well as electric charging facilities. In the main building, the welding shop will be enlarged and made much brighter thanks to open welding booths. PV systems will be installed on the roof for training purposes. In the outdoor area, an overhead line section and training switchgear are being built for practical and optimal training conditions.
With the new training center, SachsenEnergie is investing a total of 15.5 million euros in modern training conditions for specialists in the energy industry. The supplier will receive a further 834,000 euros in funding for the new building from the federal subsidy for efficient buildings. The PV roof system on the new building has an output of 64 kilowatt peak and is mainly used for the training center’s own consumption.
The design and layout of the training center were created by the Dresden architectural firm Thümmler & Mizera.