SBB infrastructure buildings

SBB Infrastructure’s portfolio includes a wide variety of typologies – from small technical buildings to very large operating centres. Due to these different and usually special building types and sizes, it is not possible to apply the standard assessment systems for sustainable construction. Nevertheless, the aim is to define a standard for sustainable infrastructure buildings that can be applied as comprehensively as possible. For this standard, requirements are defined on the basis of existing and proven labels and in line with internal Group guidelines and stored with benchmarks that correspond to the boundary conditions of the buildings to be evaluated.

The process of selecting and interpreting these requirements takes place in several workshops with experts from the individual SBB divisions under the technical direction of intep. The resulting set of criteria must be applied in full to new “railway technology buildings with workstations”; for the other two building groups “railway technology buildings without workstations” and “technical cabins”, as well as for existing buildings, the set of criteria is reduced to the appropriate criteria. This results in a sustainability standard for new buildings and renovations that can be applied to all different types of SBB Infrastructure buildings. To support the planning process and the simple verification of compliance with the specifications, a multilingual, Excel-based evaluation tool, including instructions, is provided, which also allows a phase-specific assessment of the projects.