CEPIT Vajnory – the centre of science, research and the knowledge society
The Central European Park for Innovative Technologies CEPIT in Bratislava Vajnory moved from the dead point finally. The investor – CPT Infra Company plans to invest 800 to 900 millions Euro to its building-up and it has submitted the project to be appraised from its influences to the environment point of view (EIA). It means to start-up the building-up of the first phase already this year, whereas finalization of the last fourth phase expects in year 2025. The horizon is very far (originally it would have been year 2017), however it is understandable with respect to the size of this gigantic project. If it will be realized in its full-considered range and the volume of financial costs, it will shift the Twin City project (600 millions Euro) of the HB Reavis Group developer to the honest second place.
The investor knows where and why
Bratislava region still keeps seemly development
potential in the frame of the Central Europe in spite of the crisis (currently
dynamic increase of GDP, stable rate of inflation, qualified manpower). The
capital of SR has all premises to become the protagonist of the idea of the
knowledge society and the economy based on experiences, thanks of its suitable
geographic position and huge concentration of research, science and educational
institutions.
And just this fact in combination with the auspicious development space at the entrance to Bratislava, outstanding connection to the motorway, vicinity of the international airport as well as strategy position among the Central European metropolises Vienna, Prague and Budapest led the Germany investor, which has various experiences with realization of similar projects all over the world, to the choice of this locality. Vajnory belongs among problematic areas from the municipal planning scheme point of view and different opinions for their using outlast till now.
Problems were not easy
The space defined for CEPIT lays on the northeast
of Bratislava. Rybničná Street and diagonally flowing Račiansky potok border
it from western side. However, the building permission for particular parts of
the project has to foregone the change of the parcel functional using, till now
used for agricultural purposes, besides determination of regulations and the
planning scheme decision. Particular objects of the park are realised in fourth
phases. The city planning proceeding to the first phase started-up already in
January 2008 – the building-up of infrastructure (communication and
engineering networks), zones of civil facilities (housing, administrative,
services, business park with the data centre) and objects of educational and
technological centre (engineering and electronic industry).
Problems relating to the start-up of the science-technological park project were not easy at all. Already in September 2006 CEPIT Holding GmbH Bratislava Memorandum Company signed the agreement on co-operation with the Slovak Technical University, after that with the Slovak Academy of Science (March 2007) and at last it signed Memorandum on Understanding and Mutual Co-operation on the CEPIT project (November 2007) with the municipal district Vajnory. According to these documents works on the first phase ought to be finishing now and all the area, which will offer housing for 3 thousand inhabitants and 7 thousand new working jobs on the area of nearly 69 hectares in the final vision ought to be finished within 8 to 10 years.
Half year after the Memorandum is signed the
municipal district Vajnory created the business company CEPIT Property
Management with the Germany investor. He committed himself not only to build-up
the park but also to operate it. The investment program contains the proposal on
the traffic infrastructure and functional using the parcel as well as the
building-up of the tramway line from Rača to Vajnory to the area of CEPIT near
Rybničná Street. Because one independent investor will accrue to each partial
project, the exact estimation of the total costs would be complicated this
moment. Moreover, the Bratislava self-administration region help and utilizing
supportive programs of EU are counted with while the building-up the park.
Unique and various multifunctional unit
According to the investment program the CEPIT will be the multifunctional centre of science and research development with possibility of application results into practice. It presents the pilot project for the Central Europe and industrial impulse for Slovakia as well. Which parts it should consist of?
The CEPIT Data Center (CDC) will offer up-to-date
infrastructure for operating data centres, by which it will unload mainly small
and middle firms from too excessive investment loads. The technological centre
involving the data centre of an international importance, spaces for research,
development and educational institutions, which will support technological
transfer to users of the technology will grow-up in the middle of the park
focused on micro technologies, information science, electronics and engineering
on the base of micro- and nano- systems on the area of 40 thousand m2. The
concept of operating the energy centre is built-up on central supplying the park
with electrical energy, heat and cold, supporting innovative and intelligent
solutions. Its laboratory will enable education and research in the area of top
technologies of energy transformation and influences to the living
environment.
In the Educational Center designed like the creative specialized high school for 500 pupils and adults from practice an attention is paid to mechanics, electrotechnics, automation, programming machines and lines, pneumatics, hydraulics and IT supplemented by communication and team work. The Business and Services Center placed at the entrance to the park is characterized by the investor like „complex balanced mixture of office, exhibition, service and storage spaces with big flexibility“ and variability of several units (boxes). At last but not least, CEPIT will also be about housing on the area of 17 209 m2. Besides that the complex will offer a congress centre, administrative spaces, public facilities, shopping and services, a hotel and medical and educational facilities. Its attractiveness will be increased by parks and water areas, symbiosis of cultural and sports facilities, density network of local supplies as well as fast transport connection.
The science-technological park is designed like a
unique but simultaneously miscellaneous multifunctional object. Independent
investors will undertake its particular parts. Their activities will be
co-ordinated by the CEPIT management. This way arranged organisational entity
will serve like the central contact for owners, renters and users and will
assume responsibility for administration and sustainable development of
the park.
Development impulse for all the region
The Central European Park for Innovative Technologies CEPIT has its defendants. However, its merits are incomparable and unaccountable in comparison with potential minuses. So let us try to summarize entire positive contribution of „the white town“ CEPIT for Bratislava and all Slovakia in several points:
- It will create living and working environment on a high level, with intensive changing new knowledge, and know-how,
- It will accelerate the build-up of the infrastructure on the northwest of the city and especially of Vajnory, including connection to the motorway approximately in year 2015,
- The investment will go to „the clean branch“ exclusively so it will not lead to any collision with the living environment,
- It will steady the connectivity of knowledge between science and industry thought the international centre,
- It will improve quality of education and culture substantially not only in the state and its capital, but practically in the whole region of the Central Europe,
- It will ensure international position like the internationally recognized and verified development tool with orientation to education, research and science,
- It will become the live example and the impulse for forming the knowledge society and the economy based on knowledge.
| TIME SCHEDULE OF THE BUILDING-UP | |
|---|---|
| I. phase | 2008 to 2011 |
| II. phase | 2011 to 2014 |
| III. phase | 2015 to 2019 |
| IV. phase | 2020 to 2025 |
| I. PHASE (m2) | |
|---|---|
| Entire area | 233 033 |
| Traffic areas | 36 725 |
| Parcels cummulated | 196 308 |
| Built-up area | 67 504 |
| Harden areas | 69 183 |
| Green vegetation | 59 621 |
| Useful area of storeys | 155 910 |
Visualization – Cepit Holding / Cepit Management
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