More and more large buildings are being built with timber as a renewable building material. Timbatec is a leading, innovative company in this growing future market. We construct multi-story buildings, industrial buildings and bridges in timber. And we develop modern timber construction products according to individual requirements.
The new factory yard hall was recently opened in Gurmels, a neighbouring municipality of Murten. The new building is largely made of timber and has considerable dimensions: The timber hall is 28 meters long and 21 meters wide and offers no internal walls for stiffening. A challenge for the timber construction engineers.
Architecture professor Wolfgang Winter retired at the end of September after more than 22 years at the Technical University in Vienna. On 24 October he will report in Vienna on the research and development work of the Department of Structural Design and Timber Engineering of the TU Vienna.
In the future, skyscrapers can be built cost-effectively and climate-friendly entirely from timber instead of with the conventional reinforced concrete structures. This was reported by the Austrian business magazine Trend in an article about the new TS3 technology.
Renovate instead of demolish: Two residential buildings in the city of Zurich were extended by additional timber floors and now have more living space. At the same time, energy consumption fell significantly due to clever renovations. Timbatec was involved in both projects as a specialist planner.
Building with timber is much faster than you think. At the ground-breaking ceremony for "sue&til" one and a half years ago, it was said that the first apartments of the Winterthur timber construction settlement would be ready for occupancy in spring 2018. Today we know that the first residents will be able to move into their new homes in just two months.
A new district will be built on the former Sulzerareal Plant 1 in Winterthur in the next decade. As the first residential building of the new quarter, the house, Krokodil, is built, a timber construction with most different forms of living.
The municipality of Zweisimmen in the Bernese Oberland will receive a new market and event hall with integrated fire station, which will be constructed as a pure wooden building. Since the end of August, arched girders weighing tons, which will support the hall roof, have been transported to Zweisimmen.
Last week, the new Wühribrücke bridge in the Bernese Oberland was inaugurated with a celebration. The timber bridge, which connects the two communities of Teuffenthal and Horrenbach near Thun, replaces the old concrete bridge.
With the House of Switzerland made of Timber, the House of Switzerland officially represents the country at major international events. The timber house was designed in 2014 by Spillmann Echsle Architects from Zurich for the Swiss Foreign Ministry. Now a book is dedicated to the mobile house, where Timbatec was responsible for the timber construction.
Since mid-July, children have again been romping around the playground Buchholz in Zurich Witikon. The completely renovated playground was built exclusively of beech timber. The playground has revolutionary character, since up to now only very rarely are beech buildings built in the open air.
Switzerland:
Thun Branch
Timbatec Timber Construction Engineers Switzerland Ltd.
Niesenstrasse 1, 3600 Thun
Tel: +41 58 255 15 10
Zürich Branch
Timbatec Timber Construction Engineers Switzerland Ltd.
Ausstellungsstrasse 36, 8005 Zürich
Tel: +41 58 255 15 20
Delémont Branch
Timbatec Timber Construction Engineers Switzerland Ltd.
Avenue de la Gare 49, 2800 Delémont
+41 58 255 15 40
Bern Branch
Timbatec Timber Construction Engineers Switzerland Ltd.
Falkenplatz 1, 3012 Bern
Tel: +41 58 255 15 30
Austria:
Headquarters Vienna (A)
Timbatec Timber Construction Engineers GmbH
Im Werd 6/31a, 1020 Wien
Tel: +43 720 2733 01
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