Developed by the Luxembourg Ministry of Economy, the Automobility Incubator is set to welcome innovative ideas and visionary companies shaping the future of sustainable mobility. The property is located on the Automobility Campus in Bissen and is intended to be a model for other administrative buildings to be constructed in the future. It aims to reflect current and future trends in terms of modularity, technologies, and the safeguarding of our natural resources. The goal is to promote the development of the circular economy and innovation in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, in line with the concrete implementation of the Rifkin strategy of the third industrial revolution. 

The incubator consists of a three-story administration building and adjoining technical rooms and workshops. The net area totals approximately 3520 m². The administration building offers space for offices of various sizes, conference rooms, toilet facilities, showers, changing rooms, a kitchen for up to 250 meals/day, a restaurant with a terrace, a multi-purpose hall for up to 300 people, a reception, a lounge area, and other functions. The workshop area is divided into two studios with identical floor space. Each workshop is separately accessible via a large roller shutter door and an entrance door.

In the Incubator project, methods were applied that enable compliance with recycling and reuse targets aligned with C2C from planning to implementation. Great importance was attached to deconstructable materials such as wood, steel and health materials that facilitate the reusability in the future. The proportion of materials with a high CO2 footprint, such as concrete, was minimized, which is why a basement was omitted. The construction of the administration building consists of the following elements:

• Reinforced concrete floor slab for the core structure
• Supporting structure of timber columns and beams
• Hybrid ceiling elements made of wood and concrete with integrated near-surface concrete core tempering (BKT)
• Prefabricated façade elements in timber frame construction
• Raised floor (predominantly)