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In the north of Amsterdam, a sports hall is being built on Meidoornweg, and work is progressing rapidly. With a total floor area of 2,700 m², the building will provide ample space for children and young people from two neighbouring schools to take part in sports activities. In addition, the new sports hall will be […]

The KORLAM division from our long-standing partner LTS Belgium was taken over by a new owner and will manage the Benelux markets as KORLAM.   KORLAM is already implementing its first Kielsteg project in Amsterdam. The KORLAM team is leading the project development, planning, and engineering for the sports hall at Meidoornweg.  The new owner of

Modern, welcoming and spacious: after around a year of construction, the newly built EUROSPAR in Güssing is opening its doors, covering an area of 1,200 m².  In addition to its architectural design, Spar has prioritised sustainability through an autonomous energy supply for the building’s operations and in the choice of building materials. In addition to its

Given the indispensability of daily local supply for society, the new SPAR supermarket in Heimschuh, Austria, is also a prime example of contemporary construction. Buildings in this category offer great potential in terms of reducing CO2 emissions during construction and operation.  Today, more than ever, energy-saving building technology and ecological, high-performance building materials are available.

e + h Services AG is a wholesale company that has been in existence for 90 years and supplies Swiss retailers with branded goods for work, gardening and the home. To ensure that customers benefit from very short delivery times, e + h Services relies on a modern logistics facility! At the company’s headquarters, a

A company building is currently being constructed in Cologne for a company that works in the international distribution of plastics and elastomers. The new building, with an underground car park, ground-level storage areas, and offices above, is characterized by its high flexibility of use on a minimal building area. KIELSTEG wooden roof elements also make a

Can wood as a building material fulfil one of the technical requirements for the main components of the walls, ceiling and roof of your building project? Wood can, and where it offers advantages over other building materials and a long service life is planned, the use of this valuable raw material is justified, especially in

The Ströck bakery with 80 branches in Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland has expanded one of its two production sites in Vienna/Donaustadt to include a new production hall with a spacious roof garden. With a remarkably diverse utilisation concept from Architects Collective ZT GmbH, the Ströck-Brot hall, which was completed last year, has become a

The SPAR store in Heimschuh, Austria, will soon be opening another supermarket with a visually and functionally impressive KIELSTEG timber roof construction. The KIELSTEG elements, which are up to 25 meters long, create an inviting and open sales area – spanning over 18.5 meters without supports – and the roof elements, which project over six

Copyright: © Styrian scouts  Group 10 Graz  The scouts of Group 10 in Graz proved their staying power with their plan for a new clubhouse: almost 10 years passed from the idea to the grand opening in September 2024! The new clubhouse is now available to 80 children and their carers. The building with 250 m²

The new and now second edition of the KIELSTEG reference book once again presents some of the most interesting buildings that are exemplary for the range of applications of KIELSTEG timber construction elements on over 120 pages: The spectrum ranges from schools, kindergartens and sports halls to production halls and supermarkets. The new reference book

The carpentry Dandl KG is one of the largest manufacturers of windows and doors in the Rupertiwinkel region of Upper Bavaria. Dandl combines proven traditional craftsmanship with state-of-the-art production technology. With the construction of a new administration and exhibition building, the production area has now also been expanded and a fully automated coating system with

Medical devices are among the fastest-growing industries in Germany. This is good business for iTD, a company from Lower Bavaria that makes mobile carts and articulated arms for carrying medical devices. And so the company has invested in a brand-new headquarters and factory. Bringing together many different functions in one contiguous block, the building uses

The Simose Art Museum in Otake Hiroshima is home to around 500 works of art in the personal collection of Yumiko Shimose, president of Marui Sangyo Corporation. The museum’s motto is “admire art, inside art”. Its buildings – exhibition spaces, the gardens, garden villas and a restaurant – and their composition in a garden landscape

Intersport Siebzehnrübl, one of the largest sports retailers in south-east Bavaria, is expanding its flagship store in Altötting. The new extension, which will increase the existing sales area to approx. 1,700 square meters, will also be the architectural flagship of the branch network, which comprises seven stores between Munich and Passau. Approx. 19 meter long

In the EPD (Environmental Product Declaration) issued and recalculated on 28.03.2024, we now also make visible the improved energy supply for the production of KIELSTEG timber construction elements through a PV system since 2022.  The EPD is certified in accordance with the European regulations ISO 14025 and EN 15805+A2 and is also used by our

The Schweizerhof in Flims is a 4-star hotel opened in 1903, now run by the 4th generation of the Schmidt family. In this project, it has expanded its spa facilities in a harmonious fusion of new and old. A new spa house has been erected over the existing natural stone pool filled with Grander water.

The headquarters of the pump manufacturer Hidrostal AG in Neunkirch is home to the company’s research and development centre, the sales department and a factory, including the in-house foundry for pump castings. Hidrostal’s growth in recent years led to a need for more space for offices and R&D. Considering where to create the extra capacity,

Šentilj is a small town in the northeast of Slovenia, on the border to Austria, with 8,452 inhabitants. The town has grown strongly in the last two decades, and this created the need to build the new sports and leisure centre. It is the biggest investment in the history of the community. The new building

BILLA has had a branch in Telfs since 1990, and the shop was showing its age. The company chose to replace it with a completely new building. Impressively, the whole project was completed in 80 days from demolition to reopening. The new supermarket employs 19 people, has a sales floor of 600 m2 and serves

We are pleased that MINDA Industrieanlagen gave us the opportunity to show the entire technology of the KIELSTEG components and their manufacturing technology to a wide specialist audience at this year’s MTC in Portland. Since the KIELSTEG production plant developed by Minda Industrieanlagen and put into operation in Austria in 2011, there has been a

The food retailer EDEKA Minden-Hannover commissioned ZRS Architekten Ingenieure with the planning of an innovative and ecologically sustainable local supply center in timber construction – the „EDEKA future market“ – in the Brandenburg town of Nauen. The building, which is being developed and implemented as a prototype, represents the company’s sustainability concept for climate-friendly management

The Austrian Green Planet Building© Technology Award! The Austrian Green Planet Building Technology Award honours international projects with Austrian participation in the field of climate-friendly building. In view of the challenges we face with the global climate, the initiative of Advantage Austria and the Federal Ministry for Climate Action in highlighting such projects has to

ITD GmbH is a medium-sized company that is a world-leading manufacturer of carts and support arms for medical equipment and instruments. At the site in Pfarrkirchen, Bavaria, a new factory is currently under construction. The new building includes 1,800 m2 of KIELSTEG roof. The elements are able to span wide areas without supports. At the

Austria has a worldwide reputation for sustainable architecture, engineering and construction technologies. Now, in a time dominated by the struggle for solutions to the climate crisis, from UN conferences down to the smallest local decisions, examples that show the way are urgently needed. With the Austrian Green Planet Building Award®, the Federal Ministry for Climate

In a fully built-up area where it it is hard to find any additional residential volume, the architects Regina M. Lettner and Günter Lagler of skywood by baukult set a new two-storey space on top of the existing building. The rooftop extension, called ‘Bird of Paradise’, is an example of excellence in urban densification, in terms

The new MPREIS Filiale in Klagenfurt/Kärnten is another example of a supermarket pioneering a new approach to architecture and sustainability. Architects i-unit from Tyrol designed a highly functional building with a radical-looking appearance, using a wooden structure. The building has a rectilinear glass-fronted core wrapped in a sloping skin of wooden lamellae, with semicircular openings,

This book of BUILDINGS presents a broad selection of KIELSTEG projects in Europe that have been implemented in recent years. Each of these projects is exemplary for the solution of its high requirements in terms of architecture, flexibility of use and ecology. With their decision in favor of KIELSTEG, the building owners, architects and planners

In Taio, in the midst of the picturesque Trentino landscape, the new headquarters of the company Alpenos/STP is close to completion. The wooden construction company has made a name for itself especially with hotel projects. The company’s long track record and specialization make it a sought-after partner by architects who want to realize ambitious ideas

The new ‘Sport Factory’ of the club Sportfreunde Rodgau is in the final stages of building. The 2,500-m2 building contains a sports hall and a number of other rooms. Architects Mathes & Neumann (Rodgau) chose a sustainable wooden construction method with a KIELSTEG roof. The KIELSTEG elements of type KSE 485 cover the 15-m wide

The municipality of Fels am Wagram in Lower Austria has extended the buildings of its primary school and ‘Neue Mittelschule’ secondary school by adding a new sports hall. Besides providing the schools with a new gymnasium, the building also adds new spaces for afternoon supervision in the form of a foyer, a library, and a

Building with wood reduces CO2 emissions in two ways. Wood is a natural building material. To make it, trees need earth, water, air and sunlight, and as they grow they store CO2, which directly affects climate change. In the processing phase, wood needs much less energy input than bricks, concrete or steel. Lightweight construction systems