Goodyear is one of the founding partners of the Luxembourg Automotive Campus located in Roost (Bissen) in Luxembourg. The campus will be a unique research and development area for companies involved in technological innovation for the automotive sector.

The new building will feature a gross leasable area (GLA) of 16,000 m2 and is planned to be ready by the beginning of 2020. It will accommodate Goodyear’s global innovation center as well as regional and global functions currently based in Luxembourg and will be home to approximately 1100 employees.

The design, created by Assar Universum Architects, reflects Goodyear’s vision of smart, safe and sustainable innovation for future mobility. It has been designed to nurture connectivity and collaboration between teams and create an open, innovative and inspiring working environment by embracing the advantages of a campus ‘way of live’. The project also includes an employee restaurant, gym and event center for as team gatherings, product launches, innovation and media events and exhibitions related to current and future mobility.
"We found a solid development partner in Félix Giorgetti-AG Real Estate, and we clearly appreciate their extensive expertise and forward-looking approach to the project. “Moving to the new state-of-the art facilities at the Luxembourg Automotive Campus will be an important milestone for Goodyear,” says Carlos Cipollitti, Vice President EMEA Product Development. “It will further accelerate Goodyear’s contribution to future mobility by developing and delivering smart products and innovative services that anticipate customers’ and consumers’ needs in an evolving mobility ecosystem.”

The new automotive campus will be built on 14 ha of land owned by the Luxembourg government, to be granted to the Félix Giorgetti-AG Real Estate consortium for 30 years once the initial three-year design and construction period has elapsed. Once completed, the campus will accommodate approximately 4,000 people.

"We greatly appreciate the trust and confidence Goodyear has placed in us to complete this large-scale project", commented Marc Giorgetti, manager of Félix Giorgetti, one of the leading names in the Grand Duchy’s construction industry. "This project is reminiscent of the size and scope of some of our other recent projects, such as the new headquarters for public broadcaster RTL, a three-tower project spanning 36,000 m² , the high school campus in Mersch, a 36,500 m² complex of several buildings built as a PPP (public-private partnership) project, or the new Ferrero International headquarters which will accommodate a staff of 1,500 once construction is completed."

AG Real Estate, another heavy hitter with similar experience in Luxembourg, where it built new offices for PricewaterhouseCoopers (30,000 m²), in France (Gennevilliers), where it developed a new campus for Thales Communication (85,000 m²) and in Belgium (Braine-l’Alleud), where it developed the Parc de l’Alliance business centre, home to the new Bristol Myers Squibb Belgium offices (15,000 m²), was equally delighted to have been awarded this project. "This represents an opportunity for us to make further inroads into Luxembourg, where we have been active for several years on the investment as well as the development front, and to be part of an innovative concept focused on service excellence in the automotive sector," commented Amaury de Crombrugghe, Chief Investment Officer, before Olivier Vandenhove, responsible for development in Luxembourg, further added " As well as to strengthen a new, top quality partnership of equals with one of the leading real estate and construction players on the Luxembourg market."

"Designing and building this new complex for Goodyear in Luxembourg is an interesting architectural challenge and we are delighted to be part of this iconic project," stated Philipp Carnol, Architect and Managing Director, and Didier Oosterbosch, Architect and Director of Assar Universum Architects s.a. "Our teams are excited to work on this major undertaking which will reflect Goodyear’s drive to excellence and innovation and will be recognized well beyond the Luxembourg Automotive Campus."