Year in review and holiday greetings
08.12.2021
Before we close our offices from 24.12.2021 to 09.01.2022, we look back on an exciting and for timber construction very successful year 2021. Read here interesting facts about our work and the Timbatec team. We would like to thank you for the trust you have placed in us and wish you a relaxing holiday season and a happy new year.
Projects
This year we were countless exciting timber constructions, opening 298 new projects and completing and completed 271 construction projects. We would like to highlight a few special projects to highlight. Because timber construction is booming, and we can be proud of that. More and more investors and public-sector developers are turning to the renewable raw material and timber construction is constantly establishing itself for new types of buildings. 2021 the first hospital building in timber construction was completed, and in Neuenkirch and Switzerland's first wooden bridges for wildlife cross the highway in Neuenkirch and and in Thun, the first apartment building with a wooden cellar has been occupied. Additions with far more than 100 apartments and large projects of all kinds are now being built using the timber construction method.
Clockwise from top left: Wild animal bridge Neuenkirch, RFSM hospital in Freiburg, wildlife bridge Rynetel, multi-family house in Kufstein (AT), multi-family house with basement made of wood in Thun, Aufstockung Bernapark in Deisswil
Team
Anyone who achieves great things needs great employees. We are happy to have such have them. We are especially pleased to be growing continuously. In 2021, we welcomed many new new colleagues to our ranks, andwe would like to welcome you all! a warm welcome!
Our new colleagues who joined our team in 2021 (from top left)
Jari Janowski,
Civil Engineer in Zurich;Lisa Rogatsch, Intern Civil Engineer inZurich; Lukas Leu, Intern Timber Construction Engineer in Bern ; Raphael Gwerder, timber construction engineer in Zurich; Marcel Limbach, head of
planning in Berne; Yannick Vetter, trainee timber engineer
Timber constructionengineerinDelémont; Sebastien Bonifacio,
Building physicist in Delémont;Lisa Adler, civil engineer in Zurich; Jens Röcken, ICT in
Bern; Christian Schnyder,
Intern wood construction engineer in Zurich; Piero Kessler,
Intern wood construction engineer in Zurich;Lukas Lehner, wood construction engineer in Vienna; Bernhard Krupka,
timber construction engineer in Vienna; Marc Krcmar, timber construction engineer in Vienna Xuezhao Zhang, internat TS3; Dario Salzgeber, technology manager at TS3; Richard Wüthrich, intern at TS3
We wish David Stehli all the best David Stehli all the best on his professional and private way. He has left Timbatec this year.
Research and development
Timbatec is a pioneer in the wood industry. Innovation, research and development have always been part of the DNA of our engineering company - close cooperation with universities is our virtue. This allows us to constantly open up new areas of application for timber construction. For particularly promising innovations such as TS3 or basements made of wood, we found we found startups that are part of our Timbagroup family.
In addition to our research and development development work in our Innovation Lab, the following research projects have been the following research projects were initiated in the current year:
- Innosuisse research project "Achieving market maturity of the biaxial load-bearing flat deck system in timber construction" of both Bern Universities of Applied Sciences(Link).
- Timber Structures 3.0 - Biaxial hollow timber slab at ETH Zurich(Link)
- DeepWood at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and the Bern University of Applied Sciences(Link)
- Cellar made of wood at the Bern University of Applied Sciences(Link)
- Heavy load bridges made of Wood, Forest and Wood Research Promotion Switzerland(Link)
We look forward to continuing to be a part of various research and development projects in the coming year. Thanks to the passion and tireless work of researchers, timber construction is where it is today.
Media and presentations
Just a few years ago, timber construction was a topic for trade journals. Today, the most widely read daily and weekly weekly newspapers report on the use of wood. We are pleased about this development and are proud to be part of this success story. At the beginning of the year, Stefan Zöllig joined the great "Who's Who" of the Swiss construction and real estate industry in the NZZ am Sonntag. 20Minuten, Bund and other newspapers regularly reported on the innovative projects such as the cellar made of wood and the wildlife bridges. You can find an overview here.
We share our knowledge
gladly. This is our contribution to the advancement in timber construction. Unfortunately
several events were cancelled this year - such as the annual highlight
annual highlight: the IHF in Innsbruck, which would have taken place at the beginning of December. Nevertheless, we were able to give several exciting presentations.
Here are some examples:
- Armin Schawalder spoke at the EHB in Cologne in October(link)
- Silvan Stierli spoke at the Holzbau Netzwerk Berlin-Brandenburg(online recording)
- Tamir Pixner taught at the Donau Uni in Krems(link)
- And Stefan Zöllig spoke at countless events 😊
We wish you a relaxing holiday season and a happy happy new year. For us, 2022 will be a festive year, because we will be celebrate our 25th anniversary. We look forward to new challenges and encounters with you, dear customers, partners and companions.