An eye on the future

With its recent property purchase, Doemens Academy has set the course for "Doemens 2020", an ambitious new project. With support from the municipality of Gräfelfing, the relevant notarial agreement was signed on December 16th, 2016. On January 31st, 2017, the municipal council unanimously approved the property sale. Investment costs for acquisition of the more than 5 000 m² site at Lohenstraße amount to approximately 3.3 million EUR.

"Doemens can only maintain a leading national and international role in the education and training of technical managers if the latest technical and laboratory equipment are made available. A larger space is thus indispensable", notes Georg Schneider, President of Doemens e.V.

This new location with its expanded facilities will ensure continued growth and success for Doemens. Apprenticeship opportunities, seminars, the "Savor Academy" (which provides training for prospective beer and water sommeliers) as well as the availability of faculty for consulting and various other services – used extensively to support the industries Doemens serves – can thus be intensified and developed to their full potential.

A closer look at the timetable

Further steps leading up to the move into the new building are tightly scheduled. In 2017, public tenders for architects and specialist planners will be issued. A preliminary plan is to be drawn up by fall, upon which the Municipality of Gräfelfing will prepare its property development plan. These steps will be tightly coordinated by Doemens and the Municipality of Gräfelfing together.

In the second half of 2018, the development plan is to be published and a building permit for the new building will be issued. This will be the start for tenders and, ultimately, construction. In the event everything goes according to plan, a move into the new building at Lohenstraße, including state-of-the-art laboratory and pilot plant equipment, is realistically expected for the beginning of 2021.