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Office workers are still moving boxes into Rotterdam’s

newly opened premier commercial space in the heart of

Rotterdam’s Central Business District, but space is filling

up fast. Situated in a gateway location opposite the

central station, the 120 m high-rise complex is a coveted

business venue that converges on a restaurant, café and

clean-lined lobby with efficient access control.

There’s no waiting or hassle as tenants flow effortlessly to

their offices. This is thanks to KONE’s efficient destination

control system (DCS) and new KONE KT100 turnstiles

with advanced People Flow Intelligence (PFI) integrated

into a third-party access control system.

Drifting on air

Unauthorized visitors cannot pass beyond the lobby, yet

tenants glide to their destinations without any button-

pushing. After a swipe of their ID card, an elevator

promptly arrives, knowing exactly where to take them.

“This is our very first PFI-integrated project in the

Netherlands. Initially the client had reservations, but

the Dutch PFI team put a lot of time and energy into

convincing them of the benefits of our PFI solutions,”

says

Harold Bussing

, Managing Director for KONE

Netherlands.

The project was awarded to KONE on the heels of

another recent skyscraper project completed two

years ago, De Rotterdam, the largest building in the

Netherlands. During this project, KONE established a

trusted partnership with the developer, MAB.

KONE rules Rotterdam

“Again KONE’s project management team went the

extra mile to assist the consultants and architects with

the elevator layout in the early draft phases. We prepared

detailed traffic simulations and thoroughly discussed

every possible alternative. The builder was in fact selected

after the elevators were chosen,” Bussing says.

The client expressed special appreciation of the

fresh ideas contributed by KONE throughout the

project. “Thanks to their positive, proactive attitude,

the elevators and turnstiles are state-of-the-art and

contribute to the high quality of the First Rotterdam

project. In line with our earlier collaboration with

the KONE engineering and realization team, they

again proved to be a reliable partner,” says

Jan van ‘t

Westeinde

, MAB’s Senior Manager for Sustainability at

the time of the project.

FIRST ROTTERDAM – ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

SMOOTH FIRST IMPRESSION

First by name, first by nature: Rotterdam’s newest skyscraper is the very first Dutch high-rise to feature an integrated

People Flow Intelligence solution allowing tenants to move about as if by magic.

The key challenge was developing a traffic flow solution

to meet the complex needs of a multi-tenant facility

while achieving maximum space efficiency. “We tackled

this task with our PFI system and by installing two

elevators in one shaft. One elevator will serve floors 0

and 8 to 20, and the other floors 22 to 30 to increase

capacity.”

Bussing sees FIRST Rotterdam as an important reference

project showing customers the highly advanced, user-

friendly solutions that KONE is capable of delivering. “In

fact the whole of Rotterdam is an important showcase for

us. It is the Dutch city with the highest density of KONE

projects, many of them high-profile references for our

company.”