Faiveley Transport has signed an agreement with Stadler Pankow to supply HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditionning) systems for the new Berlin S-Bahn trains that will operate in the German capital.
Under the terms of the agreement, Faiveley Transport will be in charge of the design, engineering, manufacturing and extensive testing of the HVAC systems for passenger compartments and driver cabs. Specific design developments will be made to the HVAC systems to take into account the restricted space available due to the track gauge of the Berlin rail network.
Engineering, prototypes and type testing will be managed by Faiveley Transport’s site and HVAC Centre of Competence in Leipzig, Germany, while series manufacturing will take place at Faiveley Transport’s site in the Czech Republic. Delivery is expected to start in 2017 and be completed in 2023, with frame contract options until 2029.
106 new Berlin S-Bahn trains were initially ordered in 2015 by DB Regio subsidiary S-Bahn Berlin to Stadler Pankow in consortium with Siemens. They will be used on the Ringbahn (circular railway) and southeastern lines of Berlin.
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