Looking back, the conditions were challenging. Since no planning documents existed, the planners had to develop everything from scratch. In addition, the building had been vacant for 20 years before the Aloys & Brigitte Coppenrath Foundation bought the old roundhouse in 2019. Together with the city of Osnabrück, it founded the ‘Ringlokschuppen Osnabrück GmbH’, which developed a sustainable and promising utilisation concept for the listed roundhouse. The city and foundation invested a total of 37 million euros, with a further 6 million euros provided by the federal government as part of the ‘NPS - National Urban Development Projects’ programme, which supports projects with particular national or international visibility and high innovation potential. ‘It is an incredibly exciting task to transform the half-circle building into a centre of innovation,’ said Kresing. The basic structure of the roundhouse was retained. The renovation project for the 8,000 m² building began in autumn 2020 and was completed in 2024.

On the outside, the toilet facilities are finished with toilet flush plates from the TECEsolid series and the electronic urinal flush plates TECEfilo-Solid in matt white. Both series have been designed for public and semi-public toilets. They impress with their reduced elegance and flat structure in front of the wall. The TECEsolid toilet flush plate, which is only six millimetres thick, is manufactured in a robust sandwich construction: A two-millimetre-thick metal plate protects the plastic supporting frame against the hostility of the public, especially at high user frequency. It can be screwed on in a concealed manner to protect against theft. Rubber buffers under the buttons reliably prevent rattling noises when they are triggered and ensure a good feel.

The TECEfloor floor heating system in the CIC ensures comfortable temperatures with its high proportion of radiation, even in the hall-like rooms, and also enables surface cooling in summer if required.