The LeopoldQuartier Office is being built just a few minutes' walk from Vienna's vibrant First District, surrounded by Augarten, Wettsteinpark and the lively Donaukanal (Danube Canal). The office building showcases a sustainable design featuring a multitude of possibilities. It represents the creation of a working environment that combines both nature and urban life as seamlessly as possible.
The green flagship project in the middle of the city stands out for many reasons. One of them is the hybrid timber construction with ceiling elements made of CLTPLUS from THEURL as well as concrete. The upper, 12 cm-thick concrete level and the lower 14 cm-thick CLTPLUS ceiling element are perfectly combined within a 5-layer structure.
CLTPLUS ceiling elements provides the following functions:
- It is sustainable allowing the office building to bind CO2
- The Visual Quality is a real eye-catcher
- A pleasant working environment is created with the humidity, heat and cold being regulated by the wood
In the coming weeks and months, the solid wood panels will be prefabricated in the factory and the processing will be carried out with millimetre precision using our joinery machines. In a subsequent step, the prefabricated reinforced concrete components will be connected to the CLTPLUS at the Oberndorfer factory. This is done with OHC connectors that creates a common load-bearing effect with the advantage that use of both building materials can be optimised.
A piece of wood: from Carinthia to Vienna in just a few days
The first piece of wood left our factory in Steinfeld on Sunday. But this time not by truck. No, we cycled it to the Tauernschleuse (Tauern Motorail)! The planning company UBM Development came up with something special for a good cause to help start construction. The idea was that the first piece of timber shouldn’t be delivered in the usual way, but transported to Vienna sustainably, through the athletic commitment of many people. After the starting gun sounded in our Steinfeld factory, Hannes Theurl cycled 45 kilometres to Mallnitz train station with full commitment, manpower and, thankfully, fantastic weather. At that point, the timber was then handed over and its journey continued with either a runner, cyclist or paddler, until it arrived finally in Vienna on Tuesday.
