Smart building with wood

Commercial construction, Vorarlberg

The “City Office” is a new seven-storey office building, prominently located at Vorarlberg’s busiest intersection and colloquially known as s’Bärahus. The office building was designed by D2KP Architekten BDA, Munich. It was realised by Rhomberg Bau, Bregenz, in collaboration with regional timber construction companies. THEURL’s expertise and structural solid timber products were used in the project.

Exterior view of S'Bärahus in Vorarlberg

Project information

Use: Office building
Location: Feldkirch, Vorarlberg
Completion: 2023
Theurl products used: 509 m³ CLTPLUS, 2.8 m³ glulam

Project partners

Timber construction: Holzbau Rauch GmbH
Marte Holzbau GmbH

Design & build contractor: Rhomberg Bau GmbH

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New office building S'Bärahus in Vorarlberg

Timber construction according to the "Zero" system

The aim of the investors was to construct an office building that fulfils the high standards of sustainability and flexibility. “Wood as a building material is light, very stable, binds CO2, is therefore ecological and – if we use it wisely and manage the forest sustainably – a building material for our future,” says Rene Knapp, project manager at Rhomberg. The use of wood as the main building material and the prefabrication of the wall elements contribute to a fast, sustainable and cost-efficient construction method.

Perfect planning from A to Z with CLTPLUS special solutions

Rhomberg relied on THEURL to create an efficient and error-free data flow in the digital planning process.

As the CLT supplier, Theurl produced 509 m³ of wall and ceiling elements for the “City Office”, a good two thirds of which were in visible quality. The ceilings were covered with 2,115 m2 of weather protection film in the factory. The millimetre-precise CNC joining of the wall and ceiling elements enabled simplified connections of the elements in prefabrication and on the construction site, which were carried out with XFIX connections – a resilient and removable timber connection without metal.

"We save time thanks to our specially developed charging room design.

The individual components can be loaded onto the truck in the correct assembly sequence thanks to a specially developed loading space optimisation (LRO). This saves a lot of time on site."

Christian Wolsegger, Sales Manager at Theurl