New building for the Ministry for Environment and Energy

The new 8-storey building for the Ministry for Environment and Energy of the Canton of Basel-Stadt is the first administrative building in an inner-city location in Switzerland that is aiming for Minergie-A-ECO certification. In keeping with the tasks of the office, the zero-energy office building is intended to become a lighthouse project for resource-conserving, efficient construction and an inspiration for other building projects. One of the special features of the building is the skeleton construction in wood-concrete hybrid design. Thanks to night cooling with activated component mass, cooling can be dispensed with. The company Häring will implement the supporting structure made of wood as well as the ceilings in wood-concrete hybrid construction.