Information about the move to the BUBADI
This page is aimed at all employees at the IfB. We want to centralise all current information about the move here.
We will receive a relocation guide from Department 5, which we will immediately forward to all working groups. The most important information on the move from the council meeting on 9.7.25 is summarised here. All information is also integrated in the following tabs.
The relocation guide can be found here.
Themes
Current: The room in which the cafeteria will later be housed is to be handed over on 2 December 2020. Only then can a tenant be found. The furniture order is being organised at the same time. As soon as the furniture is in place, the room can also be used for lunch breaks.
Basically: In the new building, a cafeteria will be operated in the basement of the building. The cafeteria will be available to all staff and students - however, it will not be completed until a little later (probably winter 2025) because other parts of the building are currently being prioritised. The specific offer has not yet been finalised. However, it is already clear that there will not be a fully-fledged kitchen due to lack of space, meaning that no freshly prepared meals will be available. However, it is planned that small (including hot) and healthy meals will be sold there. In the new building, there will be a (comparatively large) kitchen on each floor, each of which will also have a microwave. This means that you can heat up and eat the food you have brought with you. In addition, there are already numerous catering alternatives around the new building. The station building is currently being renovated - new catering options will also be created here by the end of the year. In cooperation with the university management, we have endeavoured to obtain guest access for our employees to the Stadtsparkasse dining hall (directly opposite). Unfortunately, our rector, Professor Dr Wolff, has reported back that this was not successful at the first attempt. But we are staying on the ball here too! We are also planning to provide a small "fleet" of e-bikes in the new building, which can be used to get to the dining hall on Grifflenberg quickly (as an alternative to walking and public transport). The vice-president for administration and finance has already made an initial commitment in this regard.
There are currently two problems with the heating:
Firstly, the radiators in the seminar rooms are not yet (sufficiently) warm everywhere. Even when the thermostat in the seminar rooms is activated (in accordance with the operating instructions on display), the heating only comes on in some of the seminar rooms. The problem is known and is currently being prioritised and solved by Department 5.
The building has a bicycle cellar, which is accessible on the south side (opposite platform 1). Access is possible for all employees of the university and is via the Bluechip keys, which we also use to access all offices. The bicycle cellar will probably open in the third week of December. At the moment, all employees are automatically authorised to use the bicycle cellar. An extension to the keys happens automatically.
Some colleagues have reported that the sound insulation between offices has not been implemented satisfactorily in some cases. As we are entitled to make a claim against the landlord at this point, we would ask all employees whose offices are affected to provide us with brief feedback. We have a claim against the landlord that sound from one office at room volume must not be audible in a neighbouring office, or only at a low and unintelligible level.
We ask all affected employees to report the office numbers whose offices are not sufficiently soundproofed to ifbvorsitz via their secretariats by 25 November. As this is a warranty claim, we cannot submit this feedback later, especially as our claims against the landlord will be lost at some point.
This information was also sent to all employees by e-mail on 18 November 2020.
Update:
The two locations Bundesbahndirektion and Rathausgalerie have all been converted to automatic door operation (time profile).
The introduction can be found under the following link:
Please note:
Please immediately use the newly installed door handles (black box above the handle) to lock the seminar doors if they are not already closed. In principle, you should not have to do this as the door handles have a timer. In the event of a malfunction, the door can be opened using the black box. The cylinder can only be operated by the fire brigade or service technician (caretaker). All authorisations that were on the cylinder have been transferred to the newly installed door handles.
Seminar rooms no longer have to be locked manually: Most seminar rooms should now already be equipped with Bluechip keys. At the same time, an automatic opening and locking system was put into operation. From now on, all seminar rooms will be opened automatically from Mon to Fri at 7.30 am and locked again at 8.30 pm. We ask all students not to lock the rooms from now on - even if they are the last lecturer on the day. The reason for this is that the seminar room doors will no longer open automatically if they have been locked manually with a key!
Seminar rooms: In future, the seminar rooms will be opened and closed using the Bluechip keys (locking system that we had on the Freudenberg). The locking system will be installed in week 47, probably by 17.11.25. Until then, the seminar rooms can only be opened and closed with the master keys, of which each team has two (1x secretariat, 1x working group leader). Until the Bluechip locking systems are installed, the opening and closing of the seminar rooms must be organised by us internally (in the teams). In concrete terms, this means
- In principle, the seminar rooms will only be locked in the evening and at night during the transition period. They will remain open during operating hours, as otherwise the organisation would be too complicated.
- The seminar rooms will be opened by the first lecturers at 8am and closed by the last lecturers in the evening after the last seminar.
- We will inform the last lecturers by e-mail.
- The seminar rooms are expected to be converted to the Buechip locking systems between 17.11. and 18.11.25. The locking authorisations for all persons have already been communicated to Dez5. All employees are requested to bring their Bluechip keys with them again from 17/11/25, as the seminar room locks will be changed over the course of these two days and access to the seminar rooms can then no longer be granted.
Locking system / offices: After installation in the seminar rooms, the locking system will also be successively installed in all offices and meeting rooms. The work is expected to be completed in week 47 (by 21.11.25). It is also essential that all employees bring their blue chip keys with them again from 17.11.25 so that they can also enter their offices.
Update: the signposting system has now been installed and several signs have errors, these are being collected centrally.
The signposting system and the signage inside the building will be installed from 17/11/25. The seminar rooms will then also be clearly labelled. Teaching will not be affected by this.
Current / South entrance: Access via the barrier-free south entrance (opposite platform 1) should have been possible since the beginning of November. There are still technical problems with the lock here, as it is actually technically connected to the door handle (which is still missing). However, this has not yet been installed. An installation date is pending. Until then, the south entrance will probably not be reliably usable.
The Federal Railway Directorate has a total of three entrances:
- West entrance (Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal side): direct access to the IfB and the ZSB.
- South entrance (opposite platform 1): full disabled access, also with direct access to the university premises. There is a lower entrance and an upper entrance via the steel scaffolding ramp. The latter is the entrance to the university. The lower entrance will only be used by the city once the construction work is complete.
- East entrance (Primark side): This is the entrance for city employees and members of the public. Access to the university premises is not possible from this side.
The entrance for employees of the University of Wuppertertal is exclusively via the West Entrance (see below). Until 10.10.25 the entrance will be controlled for all persons. From 13.10.25 there should no longer be admission control. The security service will then only approach people who want to enter the urban area. However, not all security staff were informed of this on 13/10/25. We have already informed the city, which is responsible for the security service.
The south entrance will probably only be usable from 20.10.25.
In future, IfB staff and students will always enter the building via the west entrance (the side by Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal). Background: IfB and ZSB are moving into the new building together with parts of the city administration and the job centre of the city of Wuppertal. The eastern part of the building (Primark side) will be used by the city of Wuppertal. The western part (Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal side) will be used by the university. Construction work is expected to continue in the municipal part of the building until November 2025. For this reason, the east entrance is still closed and admission will be controlled at the west entrance. If guests or students are expected, they must either be registered with security or collected at the entrance.
Commissioning of the new telephones will now take place successively from 17.11.25. Commissioning will take place via remote maintenance. Access to the offices is not required. We ask all employees to make sure that the phones are actually connected. If not, please inform the IT team. Until then:. All employees who do not wish to use their private smartphone for work purposes do not have to do so. During the transition period, however, the university cannot offer an alternative, so we ask these employees to handle all enquiries by email or Zoom.
For all those who would like to cancel their forwarding to their private smartphone, please write an email to Mr Mühlinghaus kmuehlinghaus@uni-wuppertal.de .
All seminar rooms are currently being successively put into operation. The basic technology should be up and running in most rooms by now. On 13.11.25, the projector and the media desk in the university hall (4th floor) will be realigned so that teaching is also possible there. Until further notice, the wall between the windows must be used as a projection surface in the University Hall. For this purpose, the projection image of the two projectors will be slightly reduced in size. The interim furniture in the University Hall is designed for 60 people.
Basically: All seminar rooms in the new building will be equipped to a new and modern standard. As a rule, the seminar rooms will have several separately controllable displays and a workstation. Two seminar rooms will be fully hybrid-capable and thus allow new modern teaching formats. However, there will also be analogue whiteboards. Pinboards and flipcharts will continue to be available in the new building.
Start: The car park on Gambrinusstraße is expected to be chargeable from 10.11.2025. Payment will be made via Mobility Hub / Peter Park. Registration with Mobility Hub is required for this (see below). Payment for the car park is via a prepaid system where you have to buy and pay for 10 or 50 parking units in advance. A parking unit costs €2.50 per day for registered members of the IfB/ZSB and is valid for a period of two years. A person is considered "registered" if they have registered their licence plate number via an initial query in spring 2025 or via the dean's office. Only registered persons can register at the discounted rate (see below under Registration). Non-registered persons can use the car parks via the Peter Park app (subject to registration) for a price of €3 per hour. The latter is also the information that will be on the sign at the car park (see appendix entrance sign), but is of no further importance for registered persons of the IfB or the ZSB.
Procedure: Parking is completely video-supported. When driving in and out, the licence plate number is scanned and a parking unit is deducted from your own parking unit quota. If no parking space is available, a grace period of 15 minutes applies, during which all persons can leave the car park again and for which no parking unit is deducted from their own parking quota.
Penalty fee: Anyone who has no more parking units on their prepaid account with Mobility Hub must pay a penalty fee of €54. It is therefore important that all persons using the car park always make sure that they still have enough parking units available. All users will receive a message via the email address used for registration as soon as there are only a few parking units left in their account.
Registration: All persons who entered their licence plate number via the query in spring 2025 will receive an email by 6 November 2025. Attached to this email will be a file containing their name and a registration code. This code is required for initial registration with Mobility Hub. When you register, a customer account will be created that you can use to purchase parking units and register another licence plate. We will also include further information from the provider in this email.
Click here to register and create a customer account:
https://shop.mh-parkservice.com/parkplatz-gambrinusstrasse
Late registrations: Late registrations are always possible up to 3 working days before the end of the month for the following month. Please send an e-mail to ifbvorsitz.
Cancellations: After cancellation on the IfB, the dean's office will automatically notify the operator. As we do not know whether any paid quotas will be paid out, we recommend that you use up all parking units by the time you leave.
General information: In the immediate vicinity of the new building, the Clees company, as landlord of the former Federal Railway Headquarters, will provide around 140 chargeable parking spaces. The car parks will be located directly on Döppersberg on Gambrinusstraße and will be made available to employees who work in the new building from Monday to Friday at a reduced rate of probably €2.50 per day . The car parks cannot be booked at the reduced rate at weekends. Employees will receive the reduced rate as soon as their car's licence plate number is entered into the car park provider's system. The car parks are expected to be paid for via the Peter Park app(https://www.peter-park.de) and can be booked individually on a daily basis. As there is currently no individual car park reservation in this system, the parking spaces cannot be booked in advance, but should only be booked once users have found a parking space.
Location of the car park: The car parks are located at the end of Gambrinusstraße (continue past house number 14, on the right-hand side). The car parks will initially be free to use. Use via the Peter Park app for registered licence plates is expected to start in the course of October. Before then, there will be more information on how to use the app and pay for the car parks.
The cleaning service has now started regular operations. However, due to recent construction work and the move itself, the lower floors of the building in particular are not yet in the condition we would like them to be for normal university operations.
Toilets: The soap dispensers are still being replaced and then refilled. At the moment there are still soap dispensers there, which the TUV team has organised. We have already informed Dez 5 that the soap dispensers will be empty very quickly as soon as students are regularly in the building. The same applies to the toilet paper, for which there are no stock holders yet.
Offices: cleaning is currently carried out during normal office hours, which seems to make cleaning less effective. We have already reported back to Dec 5 that the office and seminar areas should be cleaned before 8 a.m. if possible.
Paper waste: Paper waste is currently not being collected regularly. The reason for this is that the municipal cleaning service does not provide for the disposal of paper waste. This problem has already been raised with Dez5. We are waiting for a solution. Please do not throw paper into the rubbish bins in the corridor. Please collect any paper that cannot be disposed of in the small desk bins. Further information will follow.
Hall: Everyone has probably already noticed that the reverberation in the corridors everywhere in our part of the building is still very unpleasant and affects the quality of stay. We expect the problem to be exacerbated by the students who will be spending more time in the building from 20 October. We have already reported the problem to Dec 5. The problem will be solved in the future. However, a room acoustician must be called in to ensure that the acoustics can be sustainably and satisfactorily improved.
Door closers: At the moment, some doors are still closing very roughly and loudly because the door closers are not yet set correctly. the problem has been reported and will be solved in the next few days.
The floor for our archive has been newly poured and is not yet sufficiently dry. The archive will therefore be relocated next week or the week after. If you need documents from the archive, you can still find them in FZ.
All employees are requested to adjust their email signatures promptly:
Tel +49(0)202 439- xxxx
Gebäude Bundesbahndirektion (BBD)
Room BBD.XX.YY
Visiting address: Döppersberg 41, 42103 Wuppertal
Postal address: Gaußstr. 20, 42119 Wuppertal
Addition to telephone number: All employees will receive new telephone numbers in the next few weeks. Old numbers will be forwarded until March 2026 so that they can still be in the old signature.
Teaching will start in the new building in winter semester 25/26. We will have nine seminar rooms and one room for smaller lectures (up to approx. 80 people) in the new building. However, most lectures will (still) have to take place at Grifflenberg from this point onwards. The room numbers in the new building have already been entered in StudieLöwe. The abbreviation for the rooms in the BUBADI is always BBD, the following number always stands for the floor. The seminar rooms are numbered from 1-3 per floor. Room BBD 2.1 is the first seminar room on the second floor.
The new names of the rooms can be found here.
The pictures and whiteboards will be installed in the new year. There has already been an enquiry about the whiteboards. There will be an enquiry about the pictures that need to be attached to the wall with screws in January at the latest. Lightweight pictures can be attached with adhesive hooks.
General description of the lighting programming
Offices:
The lighting in the offices is switched on manually using a switch. After switching on, the brightness is controlled automatically depending on the available daylight. The luminaires dim up or down automatically. The row of luminaires in the window area is automatically switched off depending on the incident brightness.
It is also possible to dim the lighting manually by pressing and holding the switch.
Corridors:
The lighting in the corridor areas is switched on and off automatically. A manual dimming function is not provided here.
