Wood has success

The planning team led by gdap architectes sàrl, Geneva, achieved 2nd place in the «EMS Alp'Age-PSVJ» competition with the «ELSA» project. The design is based on a clear timber construction method and harmoniously integrates the nursing home into the challenging topography and the surrounding educational and healthcare area.

Discover how basements and floor slabs made of wood become reality at the Early Bird event at the International Wood Construction Forum. Over coffee and croissants, Timbase will show you how they plan, build and successfully implement innovative timber construction projects as a total contractor. Find out more now!

Today, wood can support spans and shapes that were hardly imaginable in the past. Precise production, strong connections and new materials open doors for bold constructions. In Timber and Technology magazine, we take a look at projects that make this development tangible.

The Timbatec autumn team day was all about real practice: we brushed up on our first aid skills, pressed on the resuscitation dummy, practiced using the defibrillator and saw how new raw materials are created from construction waste at Eberhard Unternehmungen. This is Timbaday.

The award-winning «Couplage» project creates a link between the former restaurant at Uttigenstrasse 31 and the new cartridge factory and is both visually and structurally impressive. Timbatec is responsible for the structural timber engineering of the new five-storey commercial building in Thun.

Hello, hello Hamburg! After five years of development, we are bringing our Swiss timber construction expertise to Germany. With a deep understanding of structural design, structural analysis in timber construction, fire protection and building physics, Eurocode-fit and locally anchored. Jari Janowski has been managing our office in Hamburg since 1.9.2025.