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Making the IAC2010 a global endeavour

Active Space Technologies joined the 61st International Astronautical Congress held in Prague, Czech Republic...:

...from the 27th September to the October 1st with its representatives from Portugal and Germany. As every year, the International Astronautical Federation together with the International Academy of Astronautics and…

Adlershof Special 15: Analytics

Searching for traces: Bioanalytics identifies materials // Global Business: Technology companies act international // The art of synthesis: The work of the analytical laboratory Witega // Tiny useful little things:…

A predestined location. By Head of BioTOP Dr. Kai Bindseil

Biotechnology is still a very young segment of high tech industry. Ever since the mid nineties, when at last there were clear and effective measures in Germany towards developing the biotech sector, Adlershof has…

Searching for traces: Bioanalytics identifies materials

Explosives in the travelling bag? Lead in the rubber duck? Hormones in the river water? Questions like these can be put to the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), for instance Professor Ulrich…

Global Business: Technology companies act international

The answer testified to his self assurance: “We integrate our technology basis specifically in partnerships,” replied Ulrich Reineke, head of 3B Pharmaceuticals (3BP), when asked to describe his company’s role in…

The art of synthesis: The work of the analytical laboratory Witega

Sometimes, explained Dr Andreas Rolfs, we are challenged by events on the other side of the world. When, for instance, baby food laced with melamine turned up in China, an affordable analytical standard for melamine…

Tiny useful little things: The fight for brightening up the image of microscopic life forms

Strings of slime snake through the lemonade. When opened it gives off a cheesy smell. The culprit is Leuconostoc, a lactic acid bacterium that metabolises highly concentrated sugar and forms slime. A whole cargo of…

Growing into a new building: AZBA GmbH, the analytics centre in Berlin-Adlershof

Fourteen years ago AZBA GmbH, the analytics centre in Berlin-Adlershof, started operations with ten employees as a WISTA tenant. Today AZBA has a new building and twice as many specialists that support the Adlershof…

Affordable medicine: New developments in the pharmaceutical research

Every improvement adds to the price – a rule that until today has applied unvaryingly to new developments in the health care system. But now the laboratories of life scientists have set off a revolution that not only…

Adlershof Special 14: Real Estate

Principal Thoroughfare Rudower Chaussee // Landing pads for businesses // The “Media Window“ // A brand world that can be experienced // A market place full of opportunities // Active interest // All-clear for new…

Location with outstanding reputation: Ingeborg Junge-Reyer, Mayor and Senator für urban development

In recent years, Adlershof – the City of Science, Business and Media – has acquired an outstanding reputation as a successful high-tech location in Germany. Numerous prominent research institutions can be found here…

Active interest: Interview with Dr. Gregor Brendel, member of the EUROPA-CENTER AG executive board

ADLERSHOF SPECIAL: What induced the EUROPA-CENTER real estate group to invest in this location three years ago? DR. BRENDEL: There were many decisive factors, above all the location’s potential and its development.…

All-clear for Adlershof’s new residential area "Wohnen am Campus"

“Whenever people go to work in a certain place, they will sooner or later want to live nearby.” Ute Hübener sums up what she frequently experiences in her work as Adlershof Projekt’s sales manager: that many people…

Self-build housing co-operative “Baugruppe Adlershof GbR“ intends to construct passive houses

Adlershof Projekt GmbH have started planning the development of 700 new residential units in the area “Wohnen am Campus” in Adlershof. Construction engineer Frank Müller from Berlin has designed six houses with a…

Made in Adlershof: Industry is returning to Berlin

Adlershof is not only a research and technology location, it is also increasingly developing into a production site. The Czech Republic? Poland? China? These were the places originally considered by the management of…

“We get things moving“: Adlershof Projekt’s planning and development team create foundations

Activities include planning tasks and the clearing and development of building plots to facilitate construction works and future utilisation for working and living. Without the team’s background activities,…

A makeover for industrial premises: BEOS leases revitalised real estate

We were very nearly afraid of coming too late, recalled Jan Plückhahn. When the Berlin project developer BEOS came to Adlershof in 2008, the demand for real estate was already at a dizzying level. Yet BEOS wasn’t…

Adlershof as a brand: Interview with Navigo Capital CEO Probstel

The real estate company Navigo Capital runs fi ve buildings with offices and workshops in Adlershof. Managing Director Michael Probstel talks about troubled times and the art of transforming a location into a…

Adapt Apartments – home for the term

The family business Helm has been designing and building for three generations. Founded in 1901, the company has now evolved into a corporate group that provides everything to do with building. Whether the development…

Landing pads for businesses: Airport attracts investors

Audi, EUROPA-CENTER AG, and immobilien-experten-ag: These and numerous other businesses have so far decided to invest in Adlershof. But Gerhard W. Steindorf, CEO of Adlershof Projekt GmbH, is convinced that once the…