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The company's new building, the Operation Control Centre, is the site of their new offices
Cloud 9 for Mount 10 New Building at Saanen Airport
Amidst a CHF 30 million total renovation and reconstruction project, the Saanen Airport is now home to a new building occupied by the firm Mount 10. BY GSTA ADLIFE
Mount 10, the company that safely stores digital information for some of the world’s most important entities, has just opened full-service offices in the Saanenland. Their recently constructed building at Saanen Airport is part of the location’s renewal process, which began last year. The building, known as OCC–Operation Control Centre–hosts the company’s first office capable of hosting and meeting with clients in the Saanenland. The region is already home to Mount 10’s Swiss Fort Knox installations. Thanks to teamwork with local partners including the municipality of Saanen, engineers, construction workers, artisans, and specialists, the building was finished in a
record 18 months. After 18 years of planning to open full-functional local offices, Mount 10 is thrilled with their current setup and the positive reaction from clients. “Many of our customers extend their technical stay in the Saanenland, ” says Christoph Oschwald, CEO of Mount 10. “…or come back as guests to the region.” The OCC The Operation Control Centre was built with the most modern and technologically advanced systems in place, which allow direct access to the company’s Swiss Fort Knox datacentres. It hosts offices as well as meeting rooms for customer interaction. Because the building stands on the aviation zone, Mount 10 has an underground garage and hangar for three medium-sized airplanes or helicopters.
with regards to the generous space,” says Oschwald. The company had originally planned to build bunkers on the Oberbort in Gstaad but when that fell through in 1994, Mount 10 began renting several old military buildings at Saanen Airport. When the airport renovation master plan was approved two years ago, the company received the construction permit at the same location.
“The building is trendsetting and the company will be very happy in the future
Swiss Fort Knox Swiss Fort Knox is Switzerland’s largest and most secure datacentre. Consisting of two installations built deep into the Alps. Built ten km apart, both locations are connected via a fibre optic cable with speed of light data transfer. State-of-the-art Swiss Fort Knox is resistant against all military, terrorist, and civilian threats, as well as nuclear, chemical, and biological warfare, and electromagnetic influences; it even has its own climate system and is hermetically sealed, in addition to being free from environmental risks such as earthquakes, flooding, and landslides.
Christoph Oschwald (l.) and Hanspeter Baumann (president of the board)
GSTAAD LIVING // GSTAADLIFE // ISSUE 6 // AUGUST 26, 2016
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