FERRING'S INTERNATIONAL STAKE IN ØRESTAD
24 April 2001 - NNE A/S

Ørestad Station is immediately next to the future centre and the station is the only one on the line between Copenhagen and Malmø where both the metro and the international trains stop. It is also only six or seven minutes to the departure lounge of Copenhagen Airport in Kastrup.
The chairman of the board at Ferring A/S, Ole Kjerulf-Jensen, says of the location that a major consideration was the building of the Øresund Bridge.

'It is only a 20-minute drive from our companies in Malmø and to our new headquarters. With our new location in Ørestad we will have much more effective conference activities. We also have daily guests from abroad and it is therefore extremely important that we are so close to one of Europe's largest airports,' says Ole Kjerulf-Jensen.

Ferring also has production companies in Kiel and Prague and sales companies in 40 countries. The administration currently rents property in Copenhagen but will be moving to Ørestad when the new headquarters are ready, which is scheduled for the new year. Ferring's main product is medicine for children who wet the bed and the new research centre will, amongst other things, work on developing a similar product for middle-aged people.

Even before Ferring International Center is complete, it has already made its mark as a visible landmark in Ørestad with its 20 storeys reaching 80 metres high.
The 11,000 square metres of building were designed by Henning Larsen's Drawing Office. The tall, slender administration building rises in steel, glass and aluminium from a concrete, glass and aluminium building which is expansive but has only three storeys. The low building is the actual research centre with the associated laboratories, and beneath there are two basement storeys for technical installations and 130 parking spaces.

Novo Nordisk Engineering A/S is responsible for project management, ventilation, laboratory design and laboratory equipment. NNE is an independent subsidiary of the Novo Nordisk Group and one of the largest consultancy firms in Denmark within the biotechnological and pharmaceutical industry. Over the years, NNE has planned all the Group's own laboratories throughout the world.

Project manager Erling Larsen of NNE says that in planning the centre it was important from the outset to incorporate Ferring's own ideas in the building.

The 80-metre high building in steel, aluminium and glass requires something special to avoid the greenhouse effect indoors. Light-tone, three-layer, low-energy glass was therefore chosen for the facades. Outside, sun protection has been fitted in the form of 40-centimetre thick aluminium plates placed horizontally on the building so that high sun cannot shine in.

Indoors, the administration building is fitted with cooling baffles in the ceilings. These are a type of cold-water radiator which cools the circulating air in the rooms.
The research building has three storeys and is built in concrete with small window sections. Outside, the concrete is clad with anodized aluminium. The building is equipped with conventional air-conditioning which also facilitates air exchange within the laboratories.

The administration building has open-plan offices in keeping with the times, but also has three single-person offices and a conference room on each floor. There is also a whole storey for conference activities and a whole storey for the canteen and kitchen, which will serve around 400 employees who will be moving to Ørestad from 1 January 2002.

In order to be able to move quickly between the many storeys, the building will have four lifts which will run from the ground floor to the 20th floor in just 30 seconds.

The consultancy group under the management of NNE was set up in 1998, and later on the development company Monberg & Thorsen became part of the cooperation. The other participants in the building project are Mogens Balslev (electricity and lifts), Moe & Brødsgaard (steel and concrete) and Rambøll (heating/water/sanitation and geotechnology).

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