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Customer application 4 June 2019

Welcome to Norderney!

The new harbor terminal for the Frisia Shipping Company on Norderney, Germany, boasts more than impressive architecture – it also showcases complex building technology. Components from WAGO ensure that it works together perfectly.

A certain level of understatement is usually attributed to northern Germans. The new harbor terminal for the Norden-Frisia Shipping Company on Norderney upends this cliché. Terms like “futuristic,” “ultra-modern,” and “stellar,” which have been used to describe the building, are rather atypical of northern Germany. Yet they suit the building. For around ten million euros, Frisia has built a new, state-of-the-art harbor terminal, whose rounded shapes embed it in the island landscape and have earned it the apt name of “Hafendüne”, or Harbor Dune. “Square, practical and cheap was not appealing to us,” explains Weddermann, Project Manager, as well as Assistant Manager of the shipping company.

High Demands on the Building Automation>

Regardless of the architectural finesse, “the core function of a terminal is to handle our passengers,” says Weddermann. The Frisia ferries bring around 2.3 million people annually to the island and back; on peak days, 20,000 people pass through the building. They now have a generously dimensioned waiting area, where they can purchase tickets, snacks and other amenities. The shipping company has moved their headquarters into the Harbor Dune building, with offices for Weddermann and around 50 other employees and two conference rooms for meetings of the Executive and Supervisory Boards and other purposes. In addition, the shipping company sets high standards for environmental responsibility. The energy consumption should be close to carbon neutral, which is achieved by using a geothermal system and an active concrete core roof. The equipment also includes heated floors. In contrast, Frisia omitted a classic ventilation system. Air exchange takes place primarily through the automated opening of windows and controlling small fans. This is of primary importance in the passenger waiting hall, in which 1,300 people wait during peak hours. Bottom line: It was a true challenge to equip the building for these tasks. “This is by far the most complex project that we have implemented up to now,” explains Klaus Mayrhofer, CEO of VM-Technik, specialists in building automation.

Integrated Approach during Planning

Mayrhofer was responsible for providing the unifying shape for the entire building technology for the Harbor Dune. “What was special about this project was that the building designers in all trades understood the project as a whole and followed an integrated approach,” says the electrical engineer. Regardless of whether the carbon neutral heating is achieved using geothermal heat and heat pumps, modern LED lighting, ventilation of the passenger hall or air conditioning of the offices, the important point for Klaus Mayrhofer was to reconcile all of the planners’ demands and desires, and to determine how the overall technology would function not only automatically, but harmoniously and efficiently as well. He achieved this using components from WAGO. They provide the foundation for the entire electrical instrumentation, control and regulation technology for the Habor Dune. “We knew that we would face complex challenges. Since we are system partners with WAGO, we also knew that the solutions from Minden would have the requisite depth, both with regards to hardware and software,” says Mayrhofer.

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