The foundation stone has been laid for the future headquarters of evosoft Hungary, Siemens Group’s software house. On hand for at the ceremony were Ádám Szigeti, Deputy Secretary of State for Innovation, Roland Busch, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Siemens AG, and Noah Steinberg, Chairman and CEO of WING Zrt., the developer of the building. István Petényi, Managing Director of evosoft Hungary was also in attendance along with Dale A. Martin, CEO of Siemens Zrt. The building in the portion of Buda is expected to open its gates in early 2021.
The six-floor office building will be constructed as the second phase of the Hungarian Nobel Prize-winners Research and Development Park, at 11 Magyar Tudósok körút. Once completed, evosoft Hungary’s software engineers will occupy roughly 20,400 sqm of the building’s total floor area of 22,000 sqm.
Noah Steinberg, Chairman and CEO of WING Zrt., said about the development: “WING’s goal is to provide a long-term solution to the global demand for real property of leading large companies active in Hungary as their partner. Our ambition is also perfectly exemplified by evosoft’s new headquarters. With the new office building, we will create world-class jobs and, at the same time, a building that will be a key element of the bank of the Danube and the cityscape, which will have the latest technologies and will be environmentally friendly and energy-saving according to the criteria of the LEED Gold environmental awareness trademark.”
István Petényi, Managing Director of evosoft Hungary, said that “When we decided to combine our software development activities at our sites in Budapest in one centre, our goal was to make our staff work more efficiently. The more than 1,600 employees working at our company meet world-class software development, professional and quality assurance requirements. With our new central office building, we rightly wish to create a world-class and inspiring workplace environment for them.”
