Schweinfurt, 2017
Photo © Hans Juergen Landes

The new Sven Wingquist Test Centre is located in Schweinfurt and completes SKF’s “large size bearing competence centre” there as its final element. The new facility tests large bearings for wind power plants as well as for example shipbuilding, mining and paper industry and further for cement and steel sector.

Photo © Hans Juergen Landes

Being a significant corporate architecture the building with the aerodynamic appearance interprets the SKF logotype by flowing, rounded forms while the materials represent high technological standards.

Photo © Hans Juergen Landes

Two volumes of different height, positioned parallel to each other are the basis of the new construction. They celebrate the wind and the energy by their striking inclination.

Photo © Hans Juergen Landes
Photo © Hans Juergen Landes

The project is regarded as a symbol of German environmental policy and is supported by two German government environmental programmes.  As a pioneer for renewable energies and energy-efficient technologies, the Test Centre was awarded LEED Gold.

Photo © Hans Juergen Landes
Photo © Hans Juergen Landes
Photo © Hans Juergen Landes
Photo © Hans Juergen Landes