Author: Balthasar Volcano

The timber construction starts. The big trucks and the crane truck are arriving and we're finally getting started! Our new building will be erected from today. Early in the morning, the Taurus truck-mounted crane is ready on the construction site to unload the prefabricated cross-laminated timber elements from the truck and then place them on the...

The floor slab is concretedAfter the glass foam insulation has been applied, the formwork for the floor slab is erected by Scheutz. Reinforcement is inserted into the floor slab to reinforce it. The reinforced floor slab is then filled with concrete and smoothed. For...

Insulating the floor slab with foam glassSince we wanted to avoid polystyrene, XPS or Styrodur in our solid timber construction as far as possible, we came across foam glass during our research. Our architect, Karl Lepic, had already told us several times about the advantages of this material and its use...

The ground-breaking ceremony - a little early, but the excitement was simply too greatAfter a good two years of planning, the time has finally come: the old house has been demolished and nothing stands in the way of the construction work - except the availability of the construction companies. But...

The excavator comes - the house goesThe roof is gone - the excavator from the Nierlich company can come. The pre-dismantled house is dismantled into its final parts. During the demolition, individual parts, such as cables, pipes or floor insulation, are fished out of the building mass and...

The roof is no longer necessary - it can now go After receiving planning permission, the roof of the house is no longer necessary. The company Berner Dach has removed the old Eternit roof and disposed of it in accordance with regulations. ...

The demolition work begins The joy is great, because after several years of planning, something is finally happening. The old house at Au 81 is now being demolished from the inside out. We have decided to carry out the demolition work ourselves with the help of the Salzkammergut Education Center. This will allow us to...