Just in time for the 25th anniversary of the company Dirk Zedler had the “innovative energy-efficient building” inaugurated. Honoured guests like Baden-Wuerttemberg’s Minister of Transport Winfried Hermann, Ludwigsburg’s Mayor Werner Spec or Bernhard Lange, presidium member of the German bicycle association ZIV showed themselves impressed. Hermann opened his speech in saying that he would also be fond of working in such a building.
Zedler-Group is divided in three departments: They include Institut für Fahrradtechnik und -sicherheit, Gesellschaft der Fahrrad-Sachverständigen and Sachverständigenbüro für Fahrradtechnik. “The Zedler-Group has one of the biggest and best bicycle laboratories worldwide”, praised Bernhard Lange. “The entire cycle industry can be proud of Dirk Zedler and his team.”
The building with the new test labs, offices, workshops as well as a large seminar area is to convince not only by architecture, but also by a specific sustainability. “The hot water production and heating, for example, are ensured through process heat generated by the test machines themselves”, says architect Harald Jahnke. “The building is also intended to generate power that can be used for mobility in future.”