Investment in the future

The SMS Campus is the new center of SMS group in Mönchengladbach. The SMS Campus provides 1,500 modern workplaces bringing the competences of previously five locations in the region together. With the innovative Campus, we are harnessing the pulling power of the growth areas of service and digitalization to expand our pioneering position in technology.

The SMS Campus makes it easier to collaborate on projects, breaks down internal barriers between entities and boosts our creativity. That is good for us and, I am sure, is a benefit for our customers too.

Key features

Dimensions

The SMS campus consists of 5 individual modules offering a total of 1,500 modern workplaces on a site spanning approximately 44,000 m².

Workplaces of the future

We are creating an attractive working environment for talents and experts. 

Sustainablity

The SMS Campus stands for the minimization of energy and resource consumption. 

The membrane roof

The membrane roof spans the plaza in the center of the SMS Campus.

Mönchengladbach

The SMS Campus brings modern jobs, innovation and economic strength to Mönchengladbach, which in turn offers an attractive working and living environment.

Photos: SMS group / Building: Hartmann Architekten BDA

Why we have built the SMS Campus

  • We stand for technology, digitalization, and service
  • We develop modern workplaces
  • We promote interaction and inspiration
  • We cultivate strong customer relationships
  • We drive innovation
  • We support creative cooperation
  • We invest in the future

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Inside the SMS Campus

Photo: SMS group / Building: Hartmann Architekten BDA
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Photo: SMS group / Building: Hartmann Architekten BDA
Photo: SMS group / Building: Hartmann Architekten BDA
Photo: SMS group / Building: Hartmann Architekten BDA
Photo: SMS group / Building: Hartmann Architekten BDA
Photo: SMS group / Building: Hartmann Architekten BDA
Photo: SMS group / Building: Hartmann Architekten BDA
Photo: SMS group / Building: Hartmann Architekten BDA
Photo: SMS group / Building: Hartmann Architekten BDA
Photo: SMS group / Building: Hartmann Architekten BDA
Photo: SMS group / Building: Hartmann Architekten BDA
Photo: SMS group / Building: Hartmann Architekten BDA

Construction of the SMS Campus

Video: SMS group / Building: Hartmann Architekten BDA

Milestones

May 2024: Inauguration of SMS Campus

Together with guests from politics, we officially inaugurate the SMS Campus on May 25, 2024 and celebrate this day with our families. 

Photo: SMS group / Building: Hartmann Architekten BDA

January 2024: We're moving in

In January 2024, the first colleagues moved into our new Campus in Mönchengladbach. While construction is ongoing on the premises, they started to bring life to our new home. Unpacking boxes, setting up the workplace, exploring the building... and off to work. Within the next weeks, all colleagues from Düsseldorf will move into the new SMS Campus and join the pioneers and the other colleagues in Mönchengladbach. 
 

Photo: SMS group / Building: Hartmann Architekten BDA

May 2023: Finalization of the membrane roof

Less than a year ago, the construction of the support structure of the membrane roof were underway. Now, the final steps of our campus highlight are taken. With extreme sensitivity, the air cushions are currently being attached to the roof, which will completely cover our plaza.

Photo: SMS group / Building: Hartmann Architekten BDA

May 2023: The interiors take concrete shape

Our workplace of the future is taking shape. More and more areas of the building are accessible, and individual spaces are becoming more and more concrete - for example, the conference hall, which offers many possibilities for internal and external use.

Photo: SMS group; Building: Hartmann Architekten BDA

April 2023: Progress in the construction of the parking garage

One year after the start, the Campus parking garage takes more and more shape.

Photo: SMS group / Building: Hartmann Architekten BDA

July 2022: Start support structure for membrane roof

The self-supporting membrane roof will be one of the highlights of the Campus, not only because roofs like these have only been used in stadiums up to now but never for industrial applications. The uniqueness of this construction is, that it looks very light and spans the entire plaza between the individual building modules due to the light construction of the rope structure. The ETFE foil of the membrane roof accentuates the lightness of the whole structure, such that it looks like it's floating. That's what makes the plaza the heart of our Campus.

Photo: SMS group / Building: Hartmann Architekten BDA

June 2022: Continuation interior work

Our workplace of the future is taking shape. While last year, the first sections of the buildings were accessible, now the interior work clearly shows where the future workplaces, coffee corners and meeting rooms will be available to the employees.

Photo: SMS group / Building: Hartmann Architekten BDA

April 2022: Start parking garage work

Since the beginning of the year, much has happened already in the construction of the parking garage. Approximately 122 meters long and 89 meters wide, the parking garage will extend over eight levels and accommodate more than 1,570 cars, 48 motorcycles and 115 bicycles.

Photo: SMS group / Building: Hartmann Architekten BDA

June 2021: First sections of the building now accessible

Nine months ago, it all looked very different here: parking spaces, a few buildings, and a soccer pitch. Today, you can already clearly see the first structures in the new SMS group Campus. All five modules, which will radiate outwards from the large dome, are already recognizable – albeit at different stages of construction.

Photo: SMS group / Building: Hartmann Architekten BDA

October 2020: Ground-breaking ceremony

With the symbolic ground-breaking ceremony, construction work on the SMS group Campus in Mönchengladbach officially began on 15 October 2020. The dimensions of the campus facility are already clearly identifiable by the ring of excavated soil.

Photo: SMS group

June 2020: Demolition

The demolition work started in June 2020 brings major changes to our company site in Mönchengladbach. To increase sustainability and reduce costs, the demolition material is directly recycled on our site for the construction road.

Photo: SMS group

May 2020: Construction site is opened

On Thursday, 14 May we officially opened the construction site for a major project at our own premises. From 2023, employees in the Rhineland will be united at an innovative Campus in Mönchengladbach, equipped with ultra-modern workplaces.

Photo: SMS group / Building: Hartmann Architekten BDA

November 2019: Presentation

SMS group, global market leader in plant construction and mechanical engineering for the steel and nonferrous metals industry, is moving to an innovative Campus in 2023. It is being created next to the existing buildings on the Mönchengladbach site.

Photo: SMS group / Building: Hartmann Architekten BDA

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