Business Card on the Roofs

Michael Eyberg knows Adlershof from above. When the engineer points out on the city map where his company Dachland has been active over recent years, the results are impressive: the Photonics Centre, the UTZ Bio and Energy Technology Centre, and the Ferdinand Braun Institute. These and other buildings have all received roofs and facades with photovoltaic installations from Dachland. “Adlershof is an ideal playground for us”, confessed Eyberg.

To get closer to the action the company will soon be relocating directly to Adlershof from its Dahlewitz site in Brandenburg. There it will join the proud ranks of companies that develop and produce photovoltaics. Early this year Global Solar Energy Deutschland started production on thin film solar cells on site. “It is important to us to be part of the network. Here we find the highest concentration of contacts,” explained Eyberg.

Ute Hübener, Sales Manager at Adlershof Projekt GmbH, is paving the way for further solar synergies: “The research institutes based here likewise attach great importance to photooptical technologies, so photovoltaics enjoys an ideal status.” The State of Berlin has just purchased a large tract at the Gross-Berliner Damm for the Science and Technology Park: enough space for even more solar companies that Ute Hübener would like to locate there.

Dachland is building its new head office directly opposite the solar module manufacturer Solon AG that has set up its new centre here. “We got to know each other from joint projects,” explained Eyberg. He is convinced that you have to keep your eyes open at all times on the growth market of photovoltaics. His company fits roofs with a wide range of diverse photovoltaic installations, whether crystalline cells in tracking systems that automatically align themselves to the sun or thin film photovoltaics whose modules are laminated directly on the sealing sheets. He has also installed in Adlershof a Russian concentrator installation operating with lenses mounted on microcells. Eyberg stresses that pilot projects of this kind are practical “to see what is viable where”.

At present Dachland is working on three other photovoltaic roofing projects in Adlershof, and then there is the planned new head office in the south of the park. What will be fitted on top of that is still to be decided.

Tina Heidborn

Link: www.dachland.de