Steady success and growth are evident: ETS Didactic has expanded its headquarters in Haunstettten with two new buildings within five years. The unique training centre was occupied in 2018; the innovative mechatronics centre was inaugurated on 29 September. Both buildings, designed by architects Paulus Eckerle, impress with their aesthetics and inner values. The new mechatronics centre houses development, production and storage. Like the training centre, the mechatronics centre is a solid brick building, solid in the literal sense of the word, with masonry that is almost 73 centimetres thick.
Hollow bricks in two layers, each 36.5 centimetres thick, form the outer walls; even the inner walls and the walls for the lift are made of bricks - absolutely atypical for an industrial or administrative building. The thermal storage capacity in the brickwork enables a balanced, natural climate at all times of the year, without the need for separate insulation or an air conditioning and ventilation system in the building, which would have cost several times more than the second brick shell.
The remaining temperature fluctuations throughout the year are equalised by the ice energy storage system. This innovative system consists of a concrete cistern sunk into the ground and filled with water and a heat pump. The heat pump circulates a carrier medium in the cistern, which extracts heat from the water and gradually freezes it. When a substance changes its aggregate state, heat is released a fact of physics. When water freezes into ice, crystallisation energy is generated, and a surprising amount at that: a litre of water that freezes generates as much heat as if the same amount of water were heated from zero to 80 degrees Celsius. An ice storage tank with a volume of ten cubic metres provides the same amount of energy as 110 litres of heating oil. Sven Urban, Managing Director of ETS Didactic: "We heat with ice - a cool thing."
In summer, the ice in the storage tank gradually thaws and cools the building passively via the floors and walls: driven by a second pump, the cold carrier medium circulates in the pipework of the underfloor and wall heating. Photovoltaic elements on the roof of the building supply the electricity for the heat pumps.
"With the inauguration and occupation of the innovative building, ETS Didactic is thus taking the important step of operating all company buildings C02-free as early as 2023. The concrete implementation and day-to-day reduction of emissions are of particular concern to the Urban family, who are already making a major investment in the sustainability of the company," says Urban.
In the new mechatronics centre, the high-tech company ETS Didactic develops, produces and ships state-of-the-art learning systems for technical professions all over the world.
Didactically optimised, holistic training systems for industry and educational institutions are the expertise of ETS Didactic. The company in Haunstetten near Kinding develops, produces and sells these systems for training in technical professions, in particular for training in automation and control technology, electrical engineering and electronics, mechatronics, building systems technology and metal technology.
ETS Didactic's systems are used all over the world wherever people are undergoing further training in technical professions: in industry and trade, in vocational training and technical schools, in colleges and universities. The company's unique strength lies in developing and realising complex educational projects on an international level, such as in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and, in future, Latin America.
The training systems are precisely tailored to curricula and labour market requirements in different countries, consisting of innovative learning solutions with hardware and perfect, brain-friendly teachware, an accompanying digital learning platform and software and apps. ETS Didactic succeeds in giving young people access to technologies and core professional skills by using state-of-the-art learning methods, augmented reality and XR, i.e. mixed reality applications. "Changing learning situations, hands-on and experiential technologies inspire motivation to learn and awaken the inventive spirit of budding specialists," says Sven Urban, Managing Director of ETS Didactic.
Founded in 1997 as Elabo Trainingssysteme by Udo Urban, the long-standing owner, the high-tech company now employs 85 people and is the international market leader in holistic didactic solutions for technology transfer. "As a specialist in didactic, methodical learning and based on ETS's many years of experience, we support our customers in deepening both the technical and digital core competences of teachers, instructors, trainers and lecturers," says Sven Urban.
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