Certificate for the "Crocodile
03.04.2020
Timbatec is pleased to receive the certificate from the CO2 Institute. It confirms: The wood used in the "Crocodile" has removed 6,418 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere. The large-scale project thus makes its contribution to climate protection.
Where locomotives and and machines were once built, a new city district is now being created right next to the Winterthur train station. The "Krokodil" building, a 6 to 8-story courtyard house, is the first building the first building block of this site development. The 100-meter-long and 60-meter-wide meters wide, over 250 apartments will be built.
Best practice timber construction
Today, timber construction is "best practice" - even in large projects such as the "Crocodile".
And if you want to contribute to climate protection, you build with wood anyway.
After all, wood is the most environmentally friendly building material in the world. It storesCO2 over the long term and has an excellent carbon footprint. One cubic meter of wood
binds one ton of carbon as it grows. The active contribution of wood
is impressively demonstrated in large-scale projects such as the "Crocodile" - the certificate of the
of theCO2 Institute is the proof.
The wood used in the "Crocodile" removes 6,414 tons ofCO2 from the environment. This corresponds to around 42.8 million kilometers of driving or theCO2 domestic emissions of 1,283 people living in Switzerland per year.
CO2-neutral thanks to wood
The installed
stores around the same amount ofCO2 that is emitted during the production of the concrete
for the basements and stairwells. The "Crocodile" is therefore
CO2-neutral thanks to the wood. By comparison, if the building had been constructed conventionally with reinforced concrete ceilings
and brick walls, the production of the building materials alone would have cost over
materials alone would have caused over 11,000
tons ofCO2.
Homage
Gotthard locomotive
The Lokstadt development in Winterthur is a project by
Implenia Switzerland. It is a good example of a
development without a comprehensive break with the urban planning and architectural
architectural past. Baumberger & Stegmeier AG together with
KilgaPopp Architekten AG won the competition, not least because of their exemplary
the architectural competition, not least because of their exemplary approach to the history of the site. The name "Crocodile"
is a tribute to the first electric Gotthard locomotive. It was manufactured from 1919
was manufactured on the site in Winterthur.
Figures
and facts
With around 30,000 square meters of floor space on 8 floors, the
floors, the "Crocodile" is one of the largest wooden buildings. Already in autumn
2020, the first residents will move into their new rental or owner-occupied apartments.
Quantities of wood used:
- 5'500 m3 cross laminated timber boards
- 1'500 m3 Glued laminated timber
- 700 m3 frame wood
- 17'300 m2 Three-layer panels
- 45'100 m2 gypsum fiber and plasterboard