The large-volume development is a prime example of sustainable hybrid timber construction and innovative, energy-efficient hospital architecture. In a hospital, areas of exposed wood such as on the walls and ceilings of interior rooms also provide a homely atmosphere, unlike what is usually the case in hospitals.
Compared to the previous building, the new hospital has two additional floors and was designed using a hybrid timber construction. While the basement and ground floor were made of concrete and a technical floor was made of reinforced concrete, the planners used timber for stories one to four, which offers a sustainable solution as it is both CO2-neutral and renewable. In addition to the regional availability, CLTPLUS was also selected because of the high degree of prefabrication. This kept construction time and the noisy building phases to a minimum.
THEURL delivered a total of 386 CLTPLUS elements to the construction site in ten truckloads, on-time and in perfect sequential order. This corresponds to 485 m³ of CLTPLUS, of which 185 m³ in industrial quality was used for the walls with 300 m³ in visible quality. The ceilings and dividing walls in the corridor were designed in Visual Quality on one side. A few shear notches were also used in the roof area.
