Happy holidays and a happy new year 2024

The end of the year is fast approaching and 2024 will soon be knocking on the door. Once again, we were able to realize a large number of exciting and challenging projects in the past year.

One example of this is the construction of the new Prêles school building on the Plateau de Diesse, which adorns our 2023 Christmas message. This flagship building impressively demonstrates that even in the case of extensive public construction projects, timber can be sourced regionally by the client through in-house procurement. Many municipalities themselves own woodland and therefore have access to this valuable raw material. The spruce, fir and beech trees that once grew on the Plateau de Diesse are now used in the building program as supports, beams, walls and ceilings for the new school. Natural material - used locally - processed, refined and installed regionally. The carbon contained in every piece of wood used remains bound for decades or even centuries. This is how active climate protection works today.

It was also an opportunity for us to accompany and document this pioneering project with a film crew for months. «From tree to school building» is the working title of a construction documentary about the new school building. The film shows the process from the selection of the trees in the municipal forest, the felling and transportation, the industrial processing and manufacturing, the timber construction work on the building site to the construction of the finished building. Watch the movie.