Sustainability at LAGERBOX – We care about the environment
We at LAGERBOX are aware of our responsibility for the environment and we have introduced numerous measures to save energy across our company’s locations. In the following, we want to present to you the steps we have already taken and the ones we have scheduled in the future:
Measures already implemented
- A first step was to refit nearly all our storage facilities with LED lighting. Additionally, the LEDs are controlled by motion detectors so as to only illuminate areas where activity is taking place.
- We rely on natural ventilation systems instead of power-hungry ventilation systems. They save a lot of energy and spare the environment.
- All our storage facilities are only heated to the extent necessary to provide our services. By doing so, we save fossil fuels without making any compromises regarding the perfect climate for your storage goods.
- We continuously monitor our electricity and energy needs to identify elements that could make our facilities even more energy-efficient.
Planned measures
- Modernization of existing buildings: All of our existing buildings are gradually being modernized in order to significantly reduce energy requirements. This includes replacing roller shutters with insulated versions, cladding facades and renewing heating systems.
- Rainwater: We ensure that rainwater is allowed to seep away naturally as far as possible, so that only the part that cannot be absorbed ends up in the sewage system.
- Photovoltaic projects: A central goal remains to be fully self-sufficient in solar power. Within the next two years, we want to equip almost all of our warehouses with photovoltaic systems and thus consistently rely on renewable energy. Further installations are planned for 2025, including at our locations in Erfurt and Dortmund city center east.
- Green roofs: All new buildings are fitted with green roofs and a heat-insulating façade as standard. We are guided by the standards of a KfW 70 building in order to ensure better insulation than necessary for warehousing and to significantly reduce heating requirements. Currently, 8 locations have green roofs, while 2 locations have partially green roofs. New buildings such as those in Erfurt and Braunschweig are also equipped with green roofs. In general, green roofs and photovoltaic systems are an integral part of our new construction planning.
- New construction projects: In addition to Erfurt and Braunschweig, five other locations are currently in the planning or approval phase. Photovoltaic systems and green roofs are also planned here.
- Wild meadows: We have already designated special areas for wild meadows at many of our sites, including in Hanover Waldhausen, Hanover Vahrenwald, Hanover List, Bielefeld, Münster, Berlin Lichtenberg- Marzahn and Cologne Mülheim. So far, mainly natural wild plants have been growing there, which already provide an important habitat for insects. In spring 2025, additional flower seeds will be sown to further promote biodiversity and provide even more food for bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
As you can see, environmental concerns are a top priority at LAGERBOX. We constantly strive to optimise our energy consumption and to save resources. You too can protect the environment by renting the storage room you need at LAGERBOX.
Human resources – people come first at LAGERBOX
We would like to take this opportunity to extent our gratitude to all our great employees. They are the heart and soul of LAGERBOX. Every day, they make a contribution to making LAGERBOX a successful company. To express our appreciation, we try to make different services available that benefit our staff.
Health promotion:
Fruit basket: We aim to encourage a healthy and balanced diet among our employees. Our staff therefore has a fruit basket at its disposal every week.
JobRad: As an environmentally conscious company, we want to motivate our staff to stop commuting by car and using bikes instead. Through our cooperation with JobRad, a Freiburg-based company, our employees have the opportunity to lease great bikes at a low price. LAGERBOX is funding this with an employer subsidy. By doing so, we are protecting the environment and fostering the health of our staff.
Urban Sports Club: Sports play an important role in the lives of many people. For this reason, we encourage our staff to take out an Urban Sports Club subscription. This gives our employees many different sports activities to choose from, ranging from boxing to yoga.
OpenUp - Mental health:
Mental health is just as important as physical well-being. That's why we offer our employees access to OpenUp - an all-in-one mental health prevention tool. OpenUp enables:
- 1:1 consultations with over 100 certified psychologists - anonymous and available within 24 hours
- Individual and group mindfulness exercises to reduce stress and increase well-being
- Live masterclasses and online courses on various mental health topics
- Health check-ins with individual recommendations for action
As 27.8% of the population - around 18 million people - are affected by mental health challenges, it is particularly important to us to provide our employees with quick and uncomplicated support
Insurance packages:
At LAGERBOX, every employee receives comprehensive insurance package. This includes:
- Company pension plan: Every employee receives a company-funded direct insurance pension plan for security in old age.
- Company healthcare: In addition to the statutory health insurance, which the company contributes to, we fund additional, typical private insurance schemes, e.g., supplementary dental insurance.
- Accident insurance: Moreover, all our employees have accident insurance. Accident insurance also extends to outside the company.
Advanced training:
Personal and professional development of our staff is of utmost importance to us. For this reason, we provide them with many opportunities:
- Extensive onboarding : New team members are extensively onboarded when they join LAGRBOX. They all start at our headquarters in Cologne and get to know every individual employee. Our trainers take the new employees under their wing and introduce them to our company culture.
- Internal workshops/seminars: We regularly offer seminars for all our locations. We use them to look at issues of our everyday work or by getting new input from external trailers. As an added bonus, our employees meet all their nice colleagues from all over Germany.
- Advanced training budget: Every employee receives an annual “advanced training budget”, which they can use for training opportunities as they please.
- Internal development: Since LAGERBOX is a high-growth company, there are constantly new vacancies, which we like to fill with our existing employees first. We foster your career at LAGERBOX.
Corporate benefits:
- Staff storage units: All our employees can use a LAGERBOX storage unit for their personal items on-site.
- Corporate benefits: Our employees can take advantage of great discounts from well-known brands. These can be accessed via the “corporate benefits” platform.
Every year, we organise a company outing with staff from all our locations to stimulate exchange and strengthen a sense of community. Our last outing was to Amsterdam and the next one is planned to go to Mallorca. Additionally, we regularly organise community events such as barbecues or our annual Christmas party. People come first at LAGERBOX. Why don’t you become part of our team too?
Sustainability time lineSustainability at LAGERBOX
1997 – 2019
As a matter of course, we have no minimised heating to the amount necessary for providing our services. This has resulted in significant savings of fossil resources. At our three locations in Hanover, we were able to reduce our electricity costs by two thirds through targeted measures. Using the identical measures, we have succeeded in saving almost 33% in electricity costs at Alte Mälzerei, our shopping centre in Dresden. Moreover, we modernised our heating systems there and made the switch to a district heating provider. We have also renewed our heating systems at the locations in Cologne Ossendorf, Münster, Dusseldorf Lierenfeld and in Stuttgart. Most of the roof at the Cologne Ossendorf location has been equipped with solar panels. The locations in Stuttgart and Berlin Hohenschönhausen also have solar systems on the roof. In total and across the country, we now produce 25% of the energy for our facilities ourselves. Of course, we will continue to modernise and push towards reaching our goal of full self-sufficiency over the next few years. Drainage issues are an increasing concern. In Leipzig as well as in Berlin Spandau, we are looking to improve soil drainage by unsealing the premises. We now have green roofs in Dresden Friedrichstadt, Hannover List, and in Berlin Spandau. In future, our goal is to equip all new buildings with a green roof. Our employees are very important to us, and so, in 2009, we started to set up a company pension for every LAGERBOX employee. Between 2017 and 2019, we also took out company health insurance and accident insurance for everyone. A complimentary fruit basket is now also standard at all locations as well as the opportunity of using a JobRad bike. To promote physical fitness, employees are supplied with a free Urban Sports Club membership. During the last few years, we have also focused more and more on advanced training. This not only includes an extensive on-boarding process, but also things like frequent workshops and seminars, advanced training opportunities, and internal training.
2020 – 2022
The location in Berlin Lichtenberg-Marzahn, which opened in April 2020, has a green roof. We have made this the new standard. At the same time, the drainage is located directly on the property and the existing premises is now partially unsealed. Of course, we also installed LED lighting here. Our fifth facility in Berlin, located at Michael-Brückner-Str. 32 in Schöneweide-Köpenick, has a green roof and is also equipped with LED lights. Both at this location and at the location in Lichtenberg-Marzahn, the facades are built according to the standard of a so-called Kfw-70 house and are therefore insulated far better than the required storage facility standard. In Bielefeld, too, our newly built storage facility not only has a green roof but also exactly the same environmentally-friendly features as the two new buildings in Berlin. Our location in Pforzheim, which opened in September 2020, is an existing property that we have converted. Here, too, we replaced the entire heating system and switched the lighting to LEDs, making it much more sustainable. Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have placed increased emphasis on a hybrid model with regard to the work performed. Employees are free to decide which days they work in the home office and which days they come to the office. At the same time, we have switched all locations to "Flaschenpost" as a supplier for drinks, so that we only order sustainable glass bottles and ban all plastic bottles from our locations. In Mannheim, we are creating a backwater level for natural seepage in the new building. Both halls are supplied with district heating. In addition, the roof will be greened, as will the façade, and solar is also planned as another sustainable point. Completion is planned for autumn 2022. We were able to install the first heat pump at the new location in Cologne Mülheim. Similar measures are being implemented at the locations in Wuppertal, Gelsenkirchen and Remscheid, which are currently in the project planning phase. At the locations in Berlin Lichtenberg-Marzahn and Berlin Schöneweide-Köpenick, bee colonies will also find a new home on our roofs in addition to the green roofs.
2023 - 2024
Sustainability remains a central component of our corporate strategy, and in the past two years we have also implemented numerous measures to make our locations more environmentally friendly and energy efficient. Around 50% of our locations are already equipped with modern photovoltaic systems, meaning that we generate more electricity at almost all of these locations than we actually consume. The average yield is around 75,000 kWh per year, while our own consumption is around 50,000 kWh. As part of our sustainable energy offensive, photovoltaic systems have been installed at 11 locations over the past two years: Pforzheim, Berlin Hohenschönhausen, Berlin Lichtenberg-Marzahn, Berlin Schöneweide-Köpenick, Berlin Spandau, Dresden Friedrichstadt, Leipzig, Cologne Poll, Cologne Mülheim, Essen Stadtmitte and Remscheid. Commissioning has largely been completed or will be completed by mid-2025 at the latest. We are increasingly focusing on green roofs to improve the ecological quality of our sites. Green roofs not only provide protection from the heat and improve air quality, but also help to store rainwater and create a habitat for insects. At the same time, they help to reduce energy consumption in our buildings. In 2023, we installed green roofs at the Berlin Spandau and Berlin Schöneweide-Köpenick sites. In 2024, further locations were added in Remscheid, Krefeld and Bielefeld. In order to actively promote biodiversity, we have designated areas for wild meadows at numerous locations - including Hannover Waldhausen, Hannover Vahrenwald, Hannover List, Bielefeld, Münster, Berlin Lichtenberg-Marzahn and Cologne Mülheim. These areas are currently home to wild plants in particular, which are already creating valuable habitats for insects. In spring 2025, additional targeted flower seeds will be sown to further increase biodiversity and create even better conditions for pollinators such as bees and butterflies.
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