VILLE-HAUTE: Knuedler car park
Extension of the underground car park
The decision to build a 1,900-square-metre extension over 5 floors was taken to create 343 spaces resulting in a total of 749 spaces in the whole car park, including 18 spaces for electric vehicles, 11 spaces reserved for women and families and 13 spaces for people with reduced mobility.
The renovation works were undertaken to bring it into compliance with current safety standards, replace the existing technical installations, widen the parking spaces, install a system to display the availability of each space (a red/green light), as well as a dynamic internal display system showing the number of available spaces on each level. New signage was installed to better guide the various types of users.
2 phases
The extension was carried two phases to ensure better management:
- Phase 1 (28 November 2022): Levels -3 and -2 of the new section were opened to the public, adding 136 parking spaces to the existing 216 spaces in the old section of the car park. A total of 352 spaces are available, including 150 reserved for hourly users.
- Phase 2 (22 December 2022): Floors -4 and -5 of the new section were opened, increasing total capacity to 383 spaces, including 180 reserved for hourly users.
Inauguration: 25 November 2022
GASPERICH: Centre national d'incendie et de secours
The National Fire and Rescue Centre (Centre national d'incendie et de secours – CNIS) was created in the wake of the reform of the emergency services and the creation in 2018 of the Grand Ducal Fire and Rescue Corps (Corps grand-ducal d'incendie et de secours – CGDIS). Today, as a public institution that encompasses all of the national emergency services, the CNIS embodies the successful relocation of these different entities under one roof.
The National Fire and Rescue Centre, which began operating in 2021, occupies a 5.2-hectare site and comprises:
• Several CGDIS directorates
• The Emergency Services Call Centre (Central des secours d'urgence – CSU-112)
• The National Rescue Training Institute (Institut national de formation des secours – INFS)
• The Luxembourg Fire and Rescue Centre (Centre d'incendie et de secours – CIS)
• The Luxembourg 2 SAMU (emergency medical services) base
• The services of the Centre emergency rescue zone
Key dates
The cornerstone for the CNIS was laid at a ceremony on 24 March 2017. The project kicked off with an architecture competition organised by the Public Building Administration (Administration des bâtiments publics) in 2004. The competition was won by the Hamburg-based architecture firm Böge Lindnder K2 Architekten, which was awarded the contract.
The project included the construction of a new fire station for Luxembourg City's firefighters, the Emergency Services Administration (Administration des services de secours) and a national school for the emergency services. After the merger of all of the national emergency services into one public institution – namely, the CGDIS – the project had to be modified several times before construction could start in 2016.
2 zones
The CNIS site is divided into two parts, comprising:
- Zone 1 contains the main building, which stands out with its red ochre facade and is where the headquarters, the CSU-112, the CIS Luxembourg station and the National Rescue Training Institute are located.
- Zone 2, which is home to one of Europe's most modern training facilities, where volunteer and professional firefighters from Luxembourg and abroad can come to train.
Inauguration: 5 May 2022
