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In the future, the potential uses of buildings will no longer be defined solely by their location, architecture, and structural design.

Software-based components will become a new and significant factor. Thanks to artificial intelligence, buildings will communicate and interact with their users and learn from them. New business models may emerge. The Center Smart Commercial Building was founded to anticipate these issues and develop marketable solutions. In the future, it will use the third construction phase of the Smart Logistics Innovation World.

There are many good reasons for LANDMARKEN to be involved as an investor: Together with our partners, we gain access to innovations from start-ups and can participate in new digital business models. "The cross-fund collaboration with our partners is also exciting for us, because together we can achieve goals faster and more efficiently than we could on our own," says Julian Schain, who heads the Digital Office at LANDMARKEN AG and runs the Future Workshop, an internal program for new ideas, projects, and initiatives.

Seizing the opportunities of digital transformation

"We will build an intelligent building that will serve as a platform for tenants to develop and showcase cutting-edge technologies,"

says Landmarken project manager Peter Marquardt, looking ahead to the third construction phase. "We will also draw on the experience gained here for future project developments." Landmarken AG is being advised by future tenants such as Drees & Sommer and Phoenix Contact, who are also members of the Smart Commercial Building Center as pioneers of digitalization. The general planner is agn Niederberghaus & Partner GmbH.

Smart building for the campus

The first building in this cluster on the RWTH Aachen Campus—which won the FIABCI Prix d'Excellence Germany in bronze in 2016—was developed, like the new building now planned, by Landmarken AG, which is also a member of the Smart Commercial Building Center
in bronze – was developed, like the new building now planned, by Landmarken AG, which is also a member of the Center for Smart Commercial Building. At the Center, institutes of RWTH Aachen University and enrolled companies conduct interdisciplinary research into the future of commercial real estate. Demonstrators support the transfer into scalable solutions.

In the third construction phase of the Smart Logistics cluster, the center will become a laboratory and form a unique focal point for the knowledge needed to design future usage models for commercial real estate. This also includes the use of artificial intelligence and new possibilities for human-machine interaction. As Landmarken AG, we can contribute many aspects from an operator's perspective, such as comfort and sustainability.

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