Timbatec was responsible for the structural design and fire protection of Sue & Til, currently the largest residential development made of wood. The publishing house Hochparterre published a special issue about the housing development with over 300 apartments. Here you can find the exciting e-paper.
On the The transformation of the Sulzer headquarters site near Winterthur's main nearing its end. Now also the between Grüze and Oberwinterthur is now being transformed into a new district. It is called Neuhegi and offers space for 4,000 residents and 8,000 residents and 8,000 jobs.
The latest building block development is the Sue & Til residential estate, a 500-meter-long building with commercial space and over 300 apartments. The housing development shows how sustainability and timber construction can be on a large scale. Here, timber construction means: Above the concrete base and behind the and behind the aluminum facade, 250,000 prefabricated wooden parts interlock. Up to up to twelve meters in length, together with insulation, windows and wind wind paper to the construction site.
You can find the exciting e-paper here.
Large wooden buildings are in vogue
Sue & Til is a trendsetter project.
trendsetter project. It will soon be displaced from the top of the list of the largest wooden buildings
buildings: Right next to Winterthur's main train station, the well-known
Sulzerareal is being transformed into the new "Lokstadt" district. On this site, among other things
the "Krokodil" building, among others. After its completion, it will replace the Sue & Til building as the largest wooden building in Switzerland.
Timbatec is planning the statics and fire protection for this major project and is supporting the
and supports the timber constructors in the construction planning. In the report "BIM at the largest timber building in Switzerland" you can learn more about the "Crocodile".