In Toulouse, a tertiary complex for the benefit of the Space Command and the NATO Space Center Of Excellence: Lines of Defense
As part of the installation in Toulouse of the Space Command (CDE), an Air and Space Army entity created in September 2019 to ensure the conduct of space operations, the ministry des Armées has decided to build the necessary infrastructure on a plot of land that is currently virgin, in the immediate vicinity of the Toulouse Space Center and the Toulouse space industries center (see map above).
The CDE will accommodate 500 employees, plus 100 non-permanent.
At the same time, a NATO Center of Excellence for the space employees will be located on the plot for NATO space training doctrine (70, plus 100 non-permanent). This Center of Excellence has nothing to do with the NATO Space Center in Germany.
The real estate operation also includes the servicing of the plot, including the construction of a reception / security building.
This high-level Operational Center for space activities of the Air Force and Space will therefore host several types of activities:
– tertiary activities such as Administration, Operation Support, Research & Development, Management;
– operational activities, this concerns space maneuvers, but also the securing-militarization of the site;
– training activities in space operations, provided by the CDE and the COE (NATO partner armies).
The whole will constitute a building complex of approximately 11,500 m² of SU, made up of several buildings (according to the proposal of the Group), for effective commissioning and reception of 500 people by September 2025 at the latest.
The provisional envelope allocated to this contract by the works contract is estimated between 52 and 60 M € HT (value June 2021).
To note that “the ambition of this political and military project must inspire the architectural design of the site, which must be modern and daring, powerful and sober (…). The entrance to each CDE and COE building will be the subject of a careful and majestic treatment by its volumes, the quality of its materials, the care given to its natural or artificial lighting, without allowing itself the slightest luxury.