State Secretary Sontowski and BAM President Panne inaugurate new laboratory building of BAM

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Dr. Rainer Sontowski, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, and Prof. Ulrich Panne, President of the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), today jointly inaugurated a new laboratory building of BAM together with Ralf Poss from the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, as well as Petra Wesseler, President of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR). After six years of construction, the new building at the Adlershof technology site has been completed. With construction costs of 56 million euros, it is one of the larger construction projects of the federal government. The new building impresses with technical features and demanding architecture.

State Secretary Sontowski: "BAM stands for high safety standards in technology and chemistry. It researches and tests safety aspects of new technologies. With the new building for science, we create excellent conditions for BAM to face current and future challenges and to contribute to innovation and technology acceptance."

"The new building offers our staff with its many specialized laboratories new space for ideas and a place for discursive interdisciplinarity. The Adlershof campus, with its numerous university and non-university partners, is an important research location for BAM," says Professor Ulrich Panne, President of BAM. "The Adlershof motto 'Science at work' means innovation and technology transfer for technical safety. Safety that creates markets," Professor Panne continues.

BAM is a scientific-technical authority within the scope of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. The laboratories, offices, and technical facilities in the new building are used by staff from the departments "Analytical Chemistry; Reference Materials" and "Materials and Environment" as well as "Materials Engineering." This provides them with precisely tailored research infrastructure. An example of this is the metal-free cleanroom. The cleanroom is unique in Europe and is intended to enable research in the field of inorganic ultra-trace analysis. In a metal-free cleanroom, pure substances can be analyzed under optimal conditions for material research and certified as reference materials.