Detailed Design Across an EV Manufacturing Campus of Over 250,000 m²
Detailed design and as-built documentation across the production buildings of an EV manufacturing campus in Germany: cell production, laboratories, stamping, and general assembly, with a combined footprint over 250,000 m².
- Combined building footprint
- 250,000+ m²
- Production building types
- 4+
- BIM standards developed
- 5D
An electric vehicle plant is not one factory. It is several factories that have to behave as one. Cell production runs to cleanroom-adjacent standards; stamping transmits press loads into foundations; general assembly is organized around line logistics; laboratories sit somewhere between industrial and scientific. Each building type carries its own structural, mechanical, and electrical logic, and all of them share one site, one energy infrastructure, and one programme.
TEBIN delivers multidisciplinary design for the production buildings of a major electric vehicle manufacturer’s campus in Germany: a combined footprint of over 250,000 m² spanning cell production, laboratories, stamping, and general assembly. The scope covers architectural, civil, structural, and MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) disciplines, through detailed design and into as-built documentation.
What does “continuously updated” mean on a plant this size?
A campus of this scale is never finished being designed. Production technology evolves faster than buildings are built, so design solutions are revised while construction is under way: a change in process equipment propagates into structure, ventilation, power distribution, and fire strategy, and the documentation has to follow without stalling the site.
That is the actual engineering condition of this project: not a frozen design delivered once, but design kept continuously consistent with a moving production concept. As-built documentation is the discipline that closes the loop, recording what was genuinely built so the next change starts from reality rather than from an outdated drawing.
Why develop 5D BIM standards for it?
On a single building, quantities and cost can be managed alongside the model. Across hundreds of thousands of square metres and multiple building types, they cannot, unless the model itself is structured to carry them. 5D Building Information Modelling (BIM) extends the coordinated 3D model with time and cost dimensions, and standards are what make that extension survive contact with many teams: consistent element data, consistent measurement rules, consistent handover formats.
TEBIN’s scope includes developing those 5D BIM standards, so that quantity and cost information is generated from the same coordinated models the disciplines design in, rather than maintained as a parallel bookkeeping exercise.
How do four building types stay one campus?
The design risk on a multi-building programme is divergence: each building solved well in isolation, and the campus inconsistent as a whole. The counter-measure is multidisciplinary coordination at campus level: shared modelling standards, shared interfaces to site-wide infrastructure, and design review that treats the buildings as instances of one system.
Project outcome
The engagement is ongoing. Delivered to date: detailed design across the campus’s production building types, as-built documentation for completed areas, and the 5D BIM standards under which the programme’s models carry quantity and cost data. Construction, commissioning, and production ramp-up remain the responsibility of the parties holding those scopes.
Project FAQ
What scope does TEBIN hold on this project?
Multidisciplinary detailed design, covering architectural, civil, structural, and MEP disciplines, across production buildings including cell production, laboratories, stamping, and general assembly, together with as-built documentation and development of 5D BIM standards. Construction and commissioning are outside TEBIN’s scope.
What is 5D BIM?
5D BIM extends a coordinated 3D building model with scheduling (4D) and cost (5D) information, so quantities and cost data are derived from the same models the design disciplines work in. On a multi-building campus this requires standards, consistent element data and measurement rules, which TEBIN develops as part of its scope.
Is the project complete?
No. The engagement is ongoing. The campus develops continuously, and design documentation is kept consistent with evolving production requirements, with as-built documentation recording completed areas.
