Sub-portfolio strategy and temporary relocation planning

Development of a sub-portfolio strategy for the administrative buildings of the city of Zurich (taking into account the development of the workforce and building maintenance) and temporary relocation planning (process planning) for the implementation of the strategy in variants. 

The result of this project is a report demon­strating the viable variants for temporary relocation planning. It is a contin­u­ation of the strategy report from 2017, and forms the basis for subse­quent concrete occupancy planning and imple­men­tation. 

The temporary relocation plan deals with various fields of action. The mandatory spatial require­ments must be fulfilled, possible gaps in supply must be antic­i­pated, flexi­bility for new devel­op­ments must be maintained, and locations must be sought for the imple­men­tation of various spatial requirement strategies. 

Taking into account the various speci­fi­ca­tions, it was possible to work out three possible variants together with the delegates of the depart­ments. In the “ping pong” variant, an admin­is­trative building is planned as a temporary relocation building. The users move succes­sively into the relocation building and then back to the original location. The target situation is practi­cally identical to the initial situation. In the “chain” variant, each renovated building serves as a new location for the users of the subse­quent renovation. The target situation corre­sponds to a relocation of addresses with location optimization through concen­tration of depart­ments in official buildings. The “mixed form” variant provides for a combi­nation of both temporary relocation concepts. The three variants were system­at­i­cally examined from a user, operator, and financial perspective.

In total, more than 60 buildings, around half of the admin­is­trative buildings sub-portfolio, are involved in the relocation planning. The feasi­bility of possible reloca­tions up to 2030 was examined and is currently being refined in a second phase.