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Terms and Conditions Cookie Policy Registration Login © 2025 SmartCitiesWorldSmart Cities World Ltd "+ articleTitle +" A groundbreaking ceremony took place in the German capital city for Siemensstadt Square an urban development that will eventually house 35,000 people Siemens Xcelerator’s end-to-end digital twin technology has been used to integrate all aspects of one district of the development which will include Europe’s largest wastewater heat exchanger of its type By 2035, Siemens will invest US$800m and develop Siemensstadt Square into a hub for partnerships with a total project volume of up to US$4.8bn Siemens executives were joined by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the Governing Mayor of Berlin Around 35,000 people will live and work at Siemensstadt Square which will have an area of roughly 188 acres and floorspace of more than a million square metres A Siemens spokesperson said: “The project is a blueprint for the effective design of urban brownfield development projects and industrial transformation worldwide “Digital technologies from the entire Siemens Xcelerator platform – from an end-to-end digital twin to artificial intelligence (AI) – will make the district liveable and fit for the future.” The “district of the future” at the more than 100-year-old industrial site in Berlin’s Spandau area will bring together manufacturing Living space for up to 7,000 people will cover a total area of 270,000 square metres Thirty percent of the space will comprise social housing while numerous companies and partners will create up to 20,000 jobs Olaf said: "This laying of the foundation stone is encouraging because it shows what we can already achieve in Germany today - in urban planning and in the construction of modern neighbourhoods “Siemensstadt will remain what it has been for 125 years - a place of new beginnings a place of the future and of confidence.” "Siemensstadt Square will be the blueprint for the city of the future," said Roland Busch He added: "The project will combine artificial intelligence digital twins and other technologies from the Siemens Xcelerator platform to transform an industrial brownfield area into an engine for solid “Net zero will be ensured through automated production and building technology optimised energy management and green mobility It will be a blueprint for sustainable growth and competitiveness through digitalisation." said: "The future is being made at a new location in Berlin As we lay the cornerstone for the new Siemensstadt Square neighbourhood we are marking the start of an exciting urban development project: an advanced sustainable smart city in the middle of one of Berlin’s fastest-growing areas for new construction “It will significantly help Germany’s capital city to reach its climate targets and attract skilled workers in part because the neighbourhood will offer housing with a high quality of life.” Siemens said Siemensstadt Square will “demonstrate how technologies from the Siemens Xcelerator platform can combine digital and sustainable solutions at all levels of the city: from intelligent sustainable buildings with photovoltaic roofs to AI-optimised biodiversity monitoring and solutions for electric vehicles” It added: “At the heart of the planning optimisation and operation of the urban infrastructure is an end-to-end digital twin which consolidates all data points from a campus twin “Through the intelligent connection and utilisation of this data a complete virtual image of the district is created and data silos are broken down.” This means errors can be detected in the digital city and avoided in the real world Potential for improvement can be continuously identified in the digital world and implemented so that even visionary concepts can be tested and a livable future actively shaped The Siemens Xcelerator technology makes uses three twins: member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG said: "I started my training and career at Siemensstadt 30 years ago I’m laying the foundations for a district of the future “After more than 100 years as a closed production site Siemensstadt Square will become an open meeting place.” Make sure you check out the latest edition of Sustainability Magazine and also sign up to our global conference series - Sustainability LIVE 2024 Sustainability Magazine is a BizClik brand the profitability of sustainability & carbon credit standards… US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order looking to increase deep sea mining drawing concerns for undiscovered species living there… This week's top stories include Earth Day China's NDCs & Sustainability LIVE Dubai… lays the foundation stone for Siemensstadt Square together with Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Mayor Kai Wegner CEO of Digital Industries and Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG CPSO and Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG President of the Siemens Stiftung and member of the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG Climate Protection and the Environment and Iris Spranger Senator for Home Affairs and Sport at the laying of the foundation stone for Siemensstadt Square Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz fills the time capsule at the laying of the foundation stone for Siemensstadt Square Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the laying of the foundation stone for Siemensstadt Square President and CEO of Siemens AG welcomes Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the laying of the foundation stone Siemensstadt Square fills the Siemensstadt Square time capsule with an NFT at the ceremonial laying of the foundation stone Siemensstadt Square christian.datzer@siemens.com guido.jagusch@siemens.com Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information 2019 at 9:00 AM EDTBookmarkSaveBERLIN—Right now it’s hard to imagine what Siemensstadt will eventually look like Surrounded by old brick factory buildings and shuttered offices the area sits at the intersection of two large roads in a neglected northern outskirts of Berlin Cars speed by faster than they should; every now and then a solitary traveler emerges from the underground train station Owned by the industrial giant that gave the suburb its name the 50-acre site doesn’t give off much of a sense of community But Berlin’s new mega-project aims to change that. Over the next decade, Siemens will spend more than €600 million to create what it’s been calling “Siemensstadt 2.0,” a “smart city” project with research facilities and a new production facility—the company’s largest worldwide—geared towards renewable energy the company is also creating something of a neighborhood: Some 3,000 new apartments are on the way An abandoned railway line nearby will be revived connecting travelers to Berlin’s new (as yet unfinished) airport in just 40 minutes 3D Printing Top Workplaces BIM Test bed for Siemen’s tech will include corporate offices Siemensstadt will offer residence to employees and Berliners “We want it be an open city,” says a Siemens employee giving us a tour perhaps making a reference to a time the city was not so open and the Berlin Wall that Berliners demolished in 1989 Siemens intends to create a “highly livable urban district where people can live The current and planned buildings will enclose one million square meters of space as well as at least one hotels and restaurants A residential population will be served by an elementary school youth recreation centers and areas for community use and cultural events “We don’t like to call it a ‘smart city,’” says a Siemens representative perhaps because the term suffers from overuse but it seems to fit the description of a modern planned connected city It wouldn’t be a Siemens event without mention of a digital twin and we don’t have too long into our tour to hear it “With the help of a digital twin of an urban environment Siemensstadt Square is being planned and implemented in a multidimensional approach In addition to replicating individual buildings the digital twin also maps the area’s complete infrastructure A holistic model is being created for the first time with all project and real-time data incorporated on one platform All project stakeholders can access this data and seamlessly collaborate on the platform The digital twin enables planners to simulate and further optimize the buildings and infrastructure before they are constructed The digital planning also provides the basis for operating maintaining and further optimizing the urban quarter for a high level of sustainability over the long term.” Siemensstadt will serve as a test bed for the company’s technology for another initiative digital transformation in all manner of life and work And so Siemensstadt will have “high-performance Sustainability has also been a Siemens initiative of late and the company promises Siemensstadt will be energy-efficient, sustainable, and operate CO2-neutral[i] Current buildings will be converted to smart buildings with technology from Siemens Smart Infrastructure division ventilation and air conditioning technology and sensors for controlling lighting and shading a building will be able to adjust its energy use to match daily and seasonal conditions of occupancy and climate will make use of heat from wastewater and groundwater Energy barriers between floors of a building will be reduced with a “barrier-free” concept waste disposal will available on all floors Workers will be less bound by what floor they are on and will have increased accessibility to all levels “from ground floors to the roof terraces.” there will be less need for motorized vehicles The local S-bahn metro stop will be brought back online to tie Siemensstadt to the rest of Berlin Simulation Designing the Future Siemens technology will form the backbone of sustainable infrastructure for Siemensstadt Square natalie.hodges.ext@siemens.com jil-patricia.huber@siemens.com peter.gottal@siemens.com Siemens Board Member and CEO Digital Industries the Group Representative of Deutsche Bahn (DB) for Berlin Gerhard Greiter and General Manager of Siemensstadt Square were present at the important milestone for the new urban quarter. General Manager of Siemensstadt Square (right) presents the digital twin of the future urban quarter. Siemens Managing Board member and CEO Digital Industries Berlin's Governing Mayor and Andreas Geisel Image: Siemens AG 125 years after the first investment in Siemensstadt around one million square meters of floor space for industry accommodation and social infrastructure are to be built here by 2035 Undeveloped terrain between Spandau in the west and Charlottenburg in the southeast: the Nonnenwiesen the nucleus of Siemensstadt was created on the Spree site: the Westend cable factory the Kleinbauwerk and the Blockwerk already existed in 1910 the residential buildings of the "Nonnendamm" estate can be seen View of the Siemens administration building most of the construction work in Siemensstadt had been completed Not to be overlooked - The "Siemensstadt" lettering on the Elmo plant framed by the SSW logo (left) and the S&H logo (right) The Siemensstadt station with the switchgear in the background jessica.wieneke@siemens.com lisa.frerichs@senatskanzlei.berlin.de presse.b@deutschebahn.com Pointing to the Future, Siemens Celebrates its Legacy The 180-acre site where Siemens built its base of operations at the turn of the 20th Century now will be reimagined as a multi-functional urban district for the 21st Century and beyond The sprawling mixed-use area called Siemensstadt Square will bring residential retail and industrial users together in a world of interconnected and interdependent technologies Environmental sustainability permeates every facet of the project Transportation systems actually will be a throwback to the original days of Siemens in this area: A light rail electric system will be revived to connect Siemensstadt Square to other parts of the city It will capture and reuse rainwater and be barrier-free in every service from waste disposal and mobility solutions The 10-year project is in the conceptual stages and is being fully designed using the digital twin the cornerstone of Siemens’ transformation from a hardware vendor to a software provider The PLC—once the cornerstone of the Siemens business and which it claims still is deployed on about one-third of all machines in the world—will be little more than a data hub System control will be a multidisciplinary and fully digital enterprise that will take machines from design to end of life recycling At the Siemens Digital Media Day in Berlin on Oct company officials touted this new digital age and the need to change not just how machines are made but how they are optimized and how they utilize another scarce commodity—the human talent available to manufacturing “You need data flow from design to manufacturing to maintenance and then do further optimization,” said Reiner Brehm CEO of Factory Automation for Siemens Digital Industries “You need to connect the horizontal design-to-manufacturing function to the vertical shop floor-to-top floor You need to connect the knowledge of the OT world with the knowledge of the IT world The use of simulation software continues to increase but the idea of running a digital twin of an operating plant in parallel with actual production still is in its infancy Yet Siemens officials are clear that they see this as the future of their company and “We want to make it easy for our customers to go into the future,” said Peter Korte in opening remarks to the 80 media representatives from 18 countries He said the recent introduction of the company’s flagship Xcelerator digital platform is the foundation of the company’s transformative plans Korte noted that its survey of customers found that 86% have concerns about digitization due to the legacy systems within the plant Another 45% stated they still struggle to implement IoT technology and 40% find it difficult to find digital partners that can help them realize the digital future Siemens hopes the Siemensstradt Square project which will be built on land the company owns at the north end of Berlin will be both a test bed for how data can be used at every stage of design and a living example of how similar projects might use data to optimize and manage operations of any size “All project stakeholders can access this data and seamlessly collaborate on the platform,” Siemens officials said in a statement “The digital twin enables planners to simulate and further optimize the buildings and infrastructure before they are actually constructed maintaining and further optimizing the urban quarter for a high level of sustainability over the long term.” Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker By Metro Report International2020-10-06T05:00:00+01:00 GERMANY: Deusche Bahn has started work on reinstatement of the 4·5 km Berlin S-Bahn branch to Siemensstadt which has been disused for around 40 years the so-called Siemensbahn diverged from the circular Ringbahn at Jungfernheide and ran north over the River Spree to Wernerwerk and the viaduct carrying the line over the river was subsequently demolished The Berlin Senate voted to support reactivation of the line after Siemens AG announced in 2018 that it was planning to develop a research campus and 3 000 homes on its former factory site DB and the city signed an agreement in June 2019 to fund a feasibility study to assess what work would be required The first section of the branch from Jungfernheide to Gartenfeld is scheduled to reopen in 2026 with the remaining section to Hakenfelde expected to follow by 2029 as part of Berlin’s i2030 expansion project ‘The Siemensbahn is one of the most exciting lines within the i2030 project’ ‘It is not only important for the Siemensstadt 2.0 development but also provides a perspective for the wider Spandau residential area We are strengthening the attractiveness of environmentally and climate-friendly transport modes that metropolises urgently need in order to remain livable.’ DB Board Member for Infrastructure Ronald Pofalla added that the project ‘shows that we are seriously interested in revitalising disused railway lines the Land of Berlin and DB have agreed that this line is important for public transport GERMANY: The Land of Nordrhein-Westfalen has confirmed €17m of funding to enable the introduction of a passenger service on the 10 km Niederrheinbahn route between Moers and Kamp-Lintfort from 2026 the third largest German town without a rail connection GERMANY: The Marburg-Biedenkopf local authority has commissioned consultancy Ederlog to study the potential reopening of the Ohmtalbahn GERMANY: The Länder of Berlin and Brandenburg have signed an agreement with Deutsche Bahn to finance studies for a project to increase capacity on the 23 km Spandau – Nauen section of the Berlin – Hamburg corridor including a proposed extension of the Berlin S-Bahn to Finkenkrug Site powered by Webvision Cloud Join the conversation You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account (Bloomberg) — Siemens Energy AG’s shares surged the most on record after the company lifted its midterm targets saying growing demand for its grid technologies is helping offset losses at its beleaguered wind-turbine division Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience Article contentRevenue is likely to grow by a high single-digit to low double-digit percentage with a profit margin of 10% to 12% by fiscal 2028 Siemens Energy had previously predicted a profit margin of 8% or above “We are very confident with the margin quality we are going to get there step by step,” Chief Financial Officer Maria Ferraro said Wednesday in an interview with Bloomberg Television She added that the company has an order backlog of €123 billion ($131 billion) By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc The next issue of Top Stories will soon be in your inbox Interested in more newsletters? Siemens Energy shares jumped 21% in early trading, the biggest intraday rise since the company was listed in 2020. The new outlook underscores how Siemens Energy is turning the page on longstanding problems at its Gamesa unit, where faulty wind turbines led to massive losses that overshadowed profits in its other businesses. With a broad restructuring under way, Gamesa is on track to break even in fiscal 2026. Siemens Energy’s share price has more than tripled this year as it managed Gamesa’s problems and reported growth in its gas-turbine and electric-grid units. Orders for circuit breakers, transformers and battery storage systems have surged as the boom in artificial intelligence drives the construction of power-hungry data centers. That growth will remain crucial for Siemens Energy as the wind industry faces uncertainty — particularly in the US, where President-elect Donald Trump has opposed the development of offshore turbine farms. Ferraro said the US will remain a key market for the company, pointing to an investment in Charlotte, North Carolina, to produce power transformers for the local market. “We are perfectly positioned for the US market with our broad portfolio, no matter what new administration comes in with,” she said. For fiscal 2025, Siemens Energy sees comparable revenue increasing by as much as 10%, with strong growth in electricity consumption driving demand for its products. The company still expects a loss of around €1.3 billion, excluding special items, in Gamesa, while net income for the whole group is expected to be around break-even. Gamesa posted a loss of €1.78 billion before special items in the twelve months through September, with Siemens Energy citing a temporary sales pause and restructuring costs that dragged on earnings. The wind unit is planning to reduce output, focus on European and US markets and slash as many as 4,100 jobs, or about 15% of its workforce. Revenue rose by 13% in fiscal 2024, while net income was €1.335 billion ($1.4 billion), partly driven by the sale of some assets. The company previously said it expected proceeds of around €3 billion this fiscal year from such sales. Among these was its stake in an Indian joint venture and its high-voltage components unit, Trench. (Updates with shares beginning in first paragraph.) transmission or republication strictly prohibited This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. Read more about cookies here. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy You can manage saved articles in your account Essential digital access to quality FT journalism on any device Complete digital access to quality FT journalism with expert analysis from industry leaders Complete digital access to quality analysis and expert insights complemented with our award-winning Weekend Print edition Terms & Conditions apply Discover all the plans currently available in your country See why over a million readers pay to read the Financial Times This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page The anniversary event featured German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz together with numerous guests from the realms of politics On October 12, 1847, Siemens started operations as a small factory workshop with ten employees manufacturing pointer telegraphs in a courtyard tucked away behind a building on Schoeneberger Strasse in Berlin Siemens has more than 300,000 employees around the world and with around €62 billion ($60.4 billion) in annual revenue is one of the world’s largest technology powerhouses “Siemens laid the foundation for the industrial age 175 years ago” Siemens is also helping to drive the digital and ecological double transformation I would like to offer my sincere congratulations on the 175 years in which Siemens has electrified “Siemens keeps reinventing itself to anticipate new technologies and trends in order to remain relevant for our customers in the decades ahead,” “We want to continue to play a leading role in helping customers and communities to tackle their biggest challenges now and in the future,” Busch added a total of around four million people worldwide have worked for the company Germany remains Siemens’ biggest business location the company employed around 86,000 people and generated revenue of more than €11 billion ($10.7 billion) in Germany Siemens has made industrial and technological history transforming the everyday lives of people around the world Werner von Siemens achieved one of the most important innovations in 1847 when he constructed the pointer telegraph – the future global company’s first product His invention made it possible to use electricity to transmit messages much more quickly and reliably over long distances Such advances marked the beginning of global connectivity Even more groundbreaking was Werner von Siemens’ invention of the dynamo machine in 1866 This typewriter-sized box was the first device able to convert mechanical energy into electric power economically – this capability paved the way for the age of electricity Siemens, however, has done more than just set technological milestones The company was also ahead of its time with respect to social issues the company introduced a pension fund for its employees back in 1872 it was not until around 20 years later that comparable governmental benefits were enshrined into law a descendant of the company’s founder said “We’re part of an epochal change like the most recent one that the world experienced in the 19th century.” it was the beginning of the industrial revolution digitalisation is transforming our societies as profoundly as industrialisation and the spread of electricity did back then,” she continued and is a leading technology company in terms of digitalisation Siemens has invested €10 billion ($9.7 billion) into software companies Siemens spent around €5 billion ($4.9 billion) on research and development and its researchers registered around 4,500 inventions Siemens brings hardware and software together combining the real and digital worlds in operational and information technology These capabilities enable customers and partners to increase their productivity and competitiveness and accelerate innovation General director Hideaki Maeomote of Bao Viet Tokio Marine Insurance (now Tokio Marine Insurance Vietnam) told VIR’s Phuong Thu about the company’s new brand commitment and experience of quality Japanese services for clients and how this new brand inspires customers to achieve their life goals The coronavirus pandemic has changed consumer shopping behaviour prompting retailers to embrace online commerce to keep up with new trends ★ Poor ★ ★ Promising ★★★ Good ★★★★ Very good ★★★★★ Exceptional Vietnam Investment Review under the Ministry of Finance Advertisement | Contact us