In addition to other projects, the tallest residential and office building in the city is being built on the former ABB site near Baden's train station. In the meantime, the name for the 66 meter high tower is also known: Akara Tower. The client is Akara Funds based in Zug, planning and construction are carried out by HRS Real Estate from Frauenfeld TG. The real estate company Markstein AG , based in Baden, has been commissioned to market the commercial and office space in the Akara Tower and the rental apartments.
In terms of traffic, 150 rental apartments are being built in the Akara Tower in the best traffic location, just a four-minute walk from the train station. They have 1.5 to 4.5 rooms. Office and service space can be rented on floors two to four. There are two commercial spaces on the ground floor. Marketing of the office space will start this autumn. The apartments will be advertised for rent from summer 2022. The move into the Akara Tower is planned for the fourth quarter of 2023.
The planning also includes the establishment of parking spaces. Next to the high-rise building and under the future town square, an underground parking garage with almost 500 parking spaces is being built. The parking spaces provided for the high-rise are also located there. There are also around 350 bicycle parking spaces available.
MoneyPark has "brought another strong product partner on board," writes the fintech, which specializes in mortgages and real estate, in a press release . Specifically, MoneyPark is working together with Hypothekarbank Lenzburg . As part of a sales partnership, MoneyPark will sell the Hypi Lenzburg mortgages throughout German-speaking Switzerland.
This means that the Hypothekarbank is significantly expanding its own sales network, according to the announcement. However, according to her, Hypi Lenzburg will continue to serve the core markets of Aargau and Solothurn itself “via its 13 branches and two advisory offices”.
Both partner companies rely on a combination of personal advice and technology in their business model, is further explained in the communication. MoneyPark has over 20 branches throughout Switzerland and 15 branches in German-speaking Switzerland. According to its own information, the company works with more than 150 banks, insurance companies and pension funds.
According to a media release, the real estate company Allreal is acquiring individual companies from Immosynergies Holding Sàrl , based in Cointrin GE. According to a press release, almost all of the properties taken over are in prime locations in the canton of Geneva. There is also a portfolio of development projects in the cantons of Geneva and Vaud. Allreal is thus significantly expanding its involvement in western Switzerland.
According to the announcement, the package taken over by founder and owner Olivier Plan from Immosynergies Holding Sàrl includes investment properties of around CHF 500 million and additional development properties of around CHF 210 million, which have a potential investment volume of more than CHF 700 million. Allreal also buys the general contractor belonging to the group of companies. All 45 employees will be taken over. The net purchase price of the entire transaction is given as around CHF 400 million.
Half of the net purchase price is to be paid in cash and half in Allreal shares. As a result, Olivier Plan, who is 100 percent owner of Immosynergies Holding Sàrl, will be one of Allreal's largest shareholders after the transaction is complete.
The Board of Directors of Allreal Holding AG intends to carry out a capital increase from the authorized capital while excluding subscription rights for the previous shareholders. It is planned to issue up to 650,000 new Allreal shares, which corresponds to an increase in the existing share capital of 4.1 percent.
As a result of the transaction, the total market value of the Allreal investment properties will rise to around CHF 5.1 billion.
The Dietiker electrical company Jaisli-Xamax is responsible for the electrical installations for the new building for the special education school in Bern ( HPS). Work began in March and, according to a message on Facebook, should go until January 2023. Jaisli-Xamax therefore provides the following services: high and low voltage installations, building automation and the delivery of switchgear.
The special education school is a special school for the city and region of Bern. The building of HPS correspond according to the communication of Jaisli-Xamax not today's operational requirements are age-related need of renovation and can werden. spatially and structurally developed Therefore, arises new school with a gymnasium on a vacant lot on the grounds of elementary schools Bümpliz and Lieutenants.
Holcim , the subsidiary Geocycle and the German Society for International Cooperation ( GIZ ) want to jointly advance the circular economy in order to reduce pollution of the oceans. For this purpose they have entered into a partnership.
According to a press release from Holcim, this strategic alliance focuses on reducing plastic and marine litter in India, Mexico, Morocco and the Philippines. Waste management is to be improved in the coastal communities there. It is also planned to set up equipment for material recovery. In addition, the partners want to start awareness campaigns and involve the tourism and hotel industries.
The participating municipalities are to be involved in the collection of large quantities of plastics for recycling or co-recycling for energy generation. This should give employees access to the legal labor market, better wages and social protection benefits.
Holcim already worked with GIZ and the Northwestern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences last year. At that time, the organizations jointly revised the guidelines for recycling waste in cement production. In the waste and cement industry, they are considered a reference document for safe and environmentally sound waste management.
2020 was a record year for the federal and cantonal building program. A total of CHF 299 million has been paid out for renovation and new construction projects, more than in any previous year, according to a federal media release.
Of this, 119 million francs went to thermal insulation projects. At 72 million francs, system renovations make up the second largest share. This involves extensive renovation of the building envelope, which can be combined, for example, with renovation of the heating systems. Around 62 million francs in funding have been awarded for projects relating to heating changes, solar and ventilation systems. In these projects, known as building services, an increase of 65 percent was achieved compared to the previous year.
The building program also has successes in terms of climate protection and employment. The measures funded in 2020 will save 5.7 million kilowatt hours of electricity and 1.4 million tons of CO2 over the entire service life. However, since the subsidy rates were increased compared to 2019, the proportion of francs paid out per ton of CO2 saved rose from 205 francs to 207 francs. The employment effect is 2,100 full-time equivalents, the additional domestic added value is 88 million francs.
Generis AG will continue to run the economic development agency for the canton of Schaffhausen until 2024. The same applies to the office for the promotion of regional and location development. The government council decided this at its meeting on Tuesday.
The service contract currently runs until the end of 2022. After that, it can be extended for a further two years for the last time. At the beginning of 2015, Generis AG was awarded the contract to manage both facilities.
As stated in a communication from the government council, Generis AG has “so far fulfilled its mandate very well. The results achieved to date in the field of business development represent a real success story. ”That is why the service contract is now being extended.
In Zuchwil, the new residential and work area Riverside is now ready for occupancy. According to a press release , the first tenants will move into the Widi Huus and Sulzer Huus in October. The project of the Swiss Prime Investment Foundation is characterized by modern energy supply and traffic management as well as recreational opportunities. It was also developed by the Swiss Prime Investment Foundation in Olten as a “living space”. As a location in the country with all the amenities of an urban place. The new Riverside district combines living and working. The Aare in turn connects nature with the city. The quarter has direct access to the river.
According to Jérôme Baumann, President of the Board of Trustees of the Swiss Prime Investment Foundation, “120 apartments have already been rented. Only a few are available. ”The apartments offer a lot of quality of life. The Solothurn architect Benedikt Graf from gsj architects and agps architecture was quoted as saying that the choice of materials was "extremely careful". The heat generation for heating and water takes place sustainably via a groundwater heat pump. Natural cooling is in operation in summer.
All apartments are designed according to the guidelines of Procap Switzerland and are wheelchair accessible. There are individual charging stations for e-vehicles at the visitor parking spaces. The parking spaces in the underground car park can also be equipped with a charging station. All five houses of the first stage should be occupied by autumn 2022.
Holcim is selling its businesses in Brazil. As announced by the company, the company is valued at $ 1.025 billion. It comprises five cement plants, four grinding plants, six plants for aggregates and 19 ready-mixed concrete plants. The buyer is the Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional. "This sale is a further step in our transformation into the world's leading provider of innovative and sustainable building solutions," Holcim CEO Jan Jenisch is quoted as saying. "It gives us the flexibility to invest in attractive growth opportunities."
With this sale, the company's balance sheet will be strengthened and the level of indebtedness will be significantly reduced, according to Holcim. It took place as part of an optimization of the portfolio. The proceeds will be used for investments in the Solutions & Products division. This builds on the acquisition of Firestone Building Products , an American manufacturer of flat roof systems, at the beginning of January. This transaction was valued at $ 3.4 billion. As a first step, Holcim introduced the Firestone GacoFlex line for waterproofing roofs in Mexico.
Despite the sale of the Brazilian business, Latin America remains a key strategic growth region for Holcim. The group recently invested in an additional clinker plant in Malagueño, Argentina, and in a new grinding plant in Yucatán, Mexico. In addition, the expansion of the company's own retail network in Disensa is ongoing.
According to a press release , three scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne ( EPFL ) have tried to find out what is behind the ever increasing space requirements of tenants. The background to this is that residential construction is not only the second largest source of energy consumption and CO2 emissions in Switzerland, right after traffic.
The researchers at the Laboratory on Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems ( HERUS ) at EPFL have therefore launched a survey among tenants. In Switzerland they make up 60 percent of the apartment occupancy. The responses from 968 tenants showed, among other things, that 40 percent of them moved into a larger apartment, although their household size had decreased. Only 25 percent would be willing to downsize under the same circumstances.
The researchers summarized the following main obstacles to downsizing: the large living space serves as a status symbol, the bond with the current apartment and the neighborhood as well as the fear of loss of privacy.
They propose several solutions: financial incentives to move and a sufficient supply of small apartments in city centers. In addition, there should be apartments of different sizes in the same building so that tenants can move without losing contact with friends and neighbors.
They also recommend giving tenants who want to downsize, priority over other potential tenants. In addition, the current approach to privacy in the entire building should be reconsidered, says Anna Pagani from HERUS, for example "by providing workshops and music rooms that can be used by tenants".
As of June 1, 2021, Switzerland had a total of 71,365 vacant apartments, including single-family houses, according to the Federal Statistical Office ( FSO ) in a message . Compared to the previous year, this corresponds to a decrease of 9.5 percent. The corresponding vacancy rate fell in the same period by 0.18 percentage points to 1.54 percent. It fell for the first time in twelve years, according to the announcement.
The FSO analysts observed a decline in vacant apartments in six of the seven major regions. Only in the greater Ticino area did the vacancy rate rise by 0.12 percentage points to 2.83 percent. Within the cantons, the analysts found the lowest vacancy rates in Zug (0.34 percent), Geneva (0.51 percent) and Zurich (0.72 percent). The highest vacancy rates were observed in the cantons of Solothurn (3.15 percent), Ticino (2.83 percent) and Appenzell Innerrhoden (2.59 percent).
The analysts have noted a particularly high decline in vacancies for new apartments and single-family homes. As of the reporting date, 7,066 vacant properties were offered for long-term rent or for sale across Switzerland, 24.2 percent fewer than in the previous year. The number of vacant single-family houses offered for long-term rent or purchase decreased by 18.8 percent to 5940 properties in the same period.
The Regionale 2025 celebrated its fifth anniversary with a celebration on the banks of the Limmat in Neuenhof AG. According to the announcement, the Regionale 2025 association was founded in 2015 and is supported by 16 Limmattal municipalities and cities as well as the cantons of Aargau and Zurich. It is intended to strengthen the identity of the Limmat Valley. To this end, 29 different projects are to be implemented by 2025.
More than 100 invited guests took part in the celebration with an aperitif and a musical performance from the water. The focus of the celebration on September 9, the fifth anniversary of the association's start-up, was the exchange of all those involved across borders. For the previous president Brigitta Johner it was a farewell. She resigns from office after six years. "For a livable and lovable Limmat valley" was the motto of the FDP politician, it says in the message. The former canton councilor was bid farewell with speeches of thanks by Roland Kuster, Wettinger mayor and former vice-president of the Regionale 2025, the managing director Peter Wolf, the mayor of the host community, Martin Uebelhart, as well as two digital greetings from the two cantons. They came from government councilors Markus Dieth (Aargau) and Martin Neukom (Zurich).
Halfway through, the next five years were also looked at. First there will be an interim show from May to October 2022. The projects nominated for the final project show will be presented there. Further projects will then be completed by 2025. The conclusion of the work of the Regionale 2025 culminates in a large project show at which all projects and processes in the region are presented to the public.
Implenia intends to sell its building construction business in Austria to Zech Bau Austria GmbH , the construction and real estate company from Dietlikon informs in a message . The sale should be completed by the end of October. The two partners have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.
"We are pleased to have found a strategically suitable owner for our building construction activities in Zech Group, who will implement a sustainable growth strategy together with our employees in Austria," explains Jens Vollmar, Head of the Buildings Division at Implenia, in the press release. Implenia intends to take responsibility for completing projects that are already under construction.
The sale of the building construction business in Austria is part of Implenia's strategy of concentrating on the company's core portfolio. The group wants to "focus on integrated construction and real estate services in Switzerland and Germany as well as tunnel construction and related infrastructure projects in other markets", it says in the announcement. At the end of 2020, Implenia had already sold Tüchler Aufbau GmbH in Austria. The company for interior and dry construction was taken over by HK-A Aufbau Holding GmbH.
Hofer Kommunalmanagement AG in Riniken presents three new board members. According to a press release , Otto Müller, mayor of Dietikon until 2018, the former CVP National Councilor Melchior Ehrler and the Limmattal network manager Jürg Hässig are new members of the board of directors. Bruno Hofer, founder of the agency for location promotion, which has also been active in the Limmattal since 2007, becomes Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Hofer is setting a new focus in location development advice, according to the press release. For this purpose, the newly developed method for community management, the systemic community management SysKom, which is now under trademark protection, is being marketed throughout Switzerland. A market analysis has shown that the need for location promotion in Swiss municipalities exists and is growing, Hofer is quoted as saying: "The competition between locations virtually forces us to carry out impact-oriented location promotion."
The methodological approach created by Hofer and his employees in Riniken is described in the media release as a handy method that is intended to help cities, municipalities and regions to experience an upgrade for their location in a simple process, which can also be reflected in rankings. According to Hofer municipal management, the method comprises eight steps from determining the location to spatial planning and location communication. According to the announcement, the end point is location marketing.
The property right at the entrance to the municipality is less than 10 kilometers away from the city of Winterthur and is still an idyllic piece of land, with a direct connection to the banks of the Töss and with a view of meadows and forest. The goals of the Energy Strategy 2050 are being built here. The Verde Blu development has been inhabited since autumn 2019. So far, so normal. It is noteworthy, however, that this development covers a large proportion of its energy requirements itself and that exclusively from renewable sources. “The specifications of the Energy Strategy 2050 are an opportunity for the real estate industry,” explains Dieter Stutz from Atlantis AG, which is active in the areas of environmental consulting, settlement planning and architecture and who developed the project. The heat supply via groundwater was the best and most convincing solution for the area. Atlantis planned and implemented this complex construction project together with EKZ.
Sustainable living as a need The new construction project Verde Blu with nine residential and commercial buildings comprises 108 condominiums as well as various commercial areas that are used by a Migros branch, a community and a physiotherapy practice, among other things. An old, listed barn serves as a common room and provides rustic charm on the site. In contrast to this is the state-of-the-art technology that supplies the system with energy: groundwater is used as a heat source for the heating and hot water, which supplies the houses with decentralized heat pumps via a so-called anergiering. An anergiering is a cold local heating system that, in contrast to conventional local heating systems, works with transfer temperatures below 30 degrees Celsius. Anergy networks therefore have no heat losses in the lines, but even generate additional energy gains from the ambient heat. In summer, the buildings can be passively cooled with the groundwater via the anergy ring.
A photovoltaic system, which is optimally designed to meet the needs of the building, provides the electrical energy for the building. The complex was only built after the apartments had already been occupied. Because they wanted to leave the decision for or against solar power to the owners. The fact that the system with a peak output of 100 kilowatts was approved by an overwhelming majority at the first owners’ meeting in winter 2019 speaks for itself. Martin Nicklas, who is responsible for modern energy solutions at EKZ, is not surprised: “In the real estate sector, we have long known the need to make a contribution to sustainability in the living area too.” A charging infrastructure for the 209 parking spaces was installed in the lower-level garage. Thanks to load curve management, it is possible to charge the cars in stages if a whole fleet of electric vehicles should one day populate the garage.
Well-coordinated system In Kollbrunn, power generation as well as heating and cooling generation and electromobility are combined in an integrated energy system. The centerpiece is an intelligent control system that maximizes the self-consumption rate and takes over load management. In this way, what is actually the most important goal can be achieved: that the electricity produced by the PV system is also consumed as much as possible on site. The control uses weather forecasts from an external weather portal for this purpose. An algorithm in the control system evaluates this data and decides on the previous evening whether enough solar power will be produced the next day to charge the boiler and storage tank of the heating system. If the solar production is too low, the boilers are charged during the night at the low tariff, otherwise there is a wait until there is enough solar power available the next day to start the heat pump.
On-site energy production The “Grand Chemin” development was built in Epalinges in western Switzerland, with some of the electricity required being produced on site by a photovoltaic system (PV). A new multi-family house is being built in Emmen (LU), which will be characterized by a heat pump with groundwater and a PV with ZEV. Two examples out of many that show that the future of energy has long since begun.
Finally, the well-known immoTable continues., On September 30, 2021, the 89th immoTable Ticino will take place in the Villa Negroni. Speakers will be Stefano Rizzi, Alberto Donada, Stefano Tibiletti, Mario Branda, Giovanna Bevilacqua, Luca Gazzaniga and Roberto Fantoni. You can find more information on our website.
The Swiss platform for locations and real estate www.immo-invest.ch has been online since April 2020. Since this Monday you can also read all Immo-News and Immo-Projects in English, French and Italian. The digitization of the established real estate magazine “immo! Nvest” is now entering the next phase. Click your way through.
According to co-organizer Marco Camenzind, the first SVIT Digital Day was a “complete success”. In addition to the SVIT Digital Compass, on which software manufacturers can present their latest tools live, the practice-oriented specialist presentations in particular met with great interest: “There was consistently positive feedback from the exhibitors. But the visits by the speakers were also very good, ”Camenzind sums up. This is reason enough for the organizers to make the second SVIT Digital Day on September 17th more attractive with hand-picked specialist speakers. There would be Mario Facchinetti, who with the Global Real Estate Run on October 29th at 12 o’clock wants to make people inside and outside the real estate industry aware of the importance of the industry for achieving the climate goals: “With the event we awaken a sense of community in us and provide a bit of variety in everyday Corona everyday life, which has become monotonous. “
Real estate success factors At 1 p.m. Boris Grell will speak about electronic signatures in real estate practice. The independent lawyer specializes in construction and real estate law, company and commercial law as well as contract law. He is also a specialist lawyer for SAV construction and real estate law. At 2:15 pm, Casavi CEO Peter Schindlmeier will take over to talk about success factors for digital property management: “The interest in solutions for ‘digital management’ has increased significantly in recent months. But how do you go from traditional management to networked property management? ” And at 3:15 p.m. Rolf Truninger, Managing Director QualiCasa AG, will talk about the web-based app Visits, which is taking digitization in the real estate market a big step forward. Everything can be experienced live on Friday, September 17, 2021 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Zurich Kulturhaus Kosmos. More information: https://svit-digital.ch/digital-day/
With the merger of the marketplaces, a monopoly arises in the categories of real estate, cars and classified ads. It’s going to be tight, very tight for the competition.
The TX Group, the Ringier Verlag as well as the insurance company Mobiliar and General Atlantic, which supports the group with its international expertise in the field of digital marketplaces, are entering into a web joint venture.
There is a lot involved in real estate. Because homegate.ch owns the marketplaces home.ch , alle-immobilien.ch ,immostreet.ch and now acheter-louer.ch . The immoscout24.ch network includes comparis.ch, HEV Switzerland, Zentralhome.ch, NZZdomizil.ch, osthome.ch and many more. The offer will certainly also be placed on the newspaper portals of various national newspapers. This is how you create a competitive Swiss marketplace offering and can act as a pioneer in the Swiss market. As a spokeswoman for TX announced, all 1000 jobs will remain.
The TX-Group now holds 31 percent of the shares, Ringier and Mobiliar 29.5 each, and General Atlantic 10 percent. The four shareholders each have 25 percent of the voting rights and are pursuing the medium-term goal of an IPO.
The CEO is to be Scout24 CEO Gilles Despas, the board of directors is to consist of Mobiliar boss Michèle Rodoni, Pietro Suppino, Mark Walder and Jörn Nikolay.
At the beginning, FRZ President André Ingold gave an overview of the organization. The network continues to grow: 730 members are now part of the FRZ Zurich Airport Region – Business Network & Location Development.
Ingold also gave an overview of the largest development projects. It is forecast that the airport region will grow by 20 percent in terms of both population and jobs by 2030. He specifically mentions the Dübendorf Innovation Park, which is intended to increase the attractiveness of the location considerably. The same applies to the Digital Health Center Bülach.
There were numerous opportunities for small talk and informal discussions in the spacious rooms. The 320 targeted “meet & match” discussions with Internet support were actively used.
Claudio Saputelli , UBS Switzerland AG, said he did not see a turnaround in the real estate market. In the lecture entitled: “Home office as a game changer in the real estate market?” The upward trend in prices on the housing market continues and the office market remains under pressure. Incidentally, working from home had already been identified as a megatrend 50 years ago, at that time under the term “teleworking”.
Patrick Eberhard , Eberhard Enterprises, pleaded for sustainability in the lecture “Off to the circular age”. An important element of this is recycling with the help of robots.
Marloes Fischer , Madaster Services AG, CEO Madaster Switzerland – “Madaster – giving materials an identity” sees considerable savings potential if the materials used in construction are inventoried.
Marc Walder , CEO Ringier AG & Founder digitalswitzerland, spoke about digitization as an opportunity for business and society. The media company, founded in 1833, decided in 2007 to transform itself into a digital company. In the meantime, Ringier has invested over two billion francs in the digital transformation and increased the digital operating profit from 0 to 65 percent. His maxims include: Constantly improving, thinking long-term and with a clear focus.
“Creativity is the new currency – Startup and Corporate / SME Collaboration”. That was the title of Eva Wimmers , CEO ISS Facility Services Germany. She pointed out the different perspectives of startups and established companies. The environment brought her to the denominator VUCA: Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. Anders Indset, economic philosopher, spoke about «The infected thinking – why we have to free ourselves from our old self-evident things». He amazed the guests with remarkable thoughts: Err dich happily. We need chaos and order. The art of being wrong. We should tell new stories. Anyone who is interested becomes interesting.
Autumn is approaching with great strides and with it, unfortunately, the time of increasing corona case numbers again. A decentralized team event outdoors provides planning security and does not require a certificate or the associated organizational effort. Companies can register as an entire company or only participate with individual teams. An ideal opportunity for a strategy walk away from the hectic everyday life – or just for a nice chat among work colleagues.
For this purpose, some companies used the event last spring for additional team building measures and spontaneously organized an aperitif reception, started their own slack channel to strengthen the (international) team spirit or decided to collect waste along the entire route Communicate this good deed through social media. Interested parties can find more impressions of the past event here .
There are no special requirements for participation, only the will to complete 6 kilometers within 24 hours. Whether jogging or ambitious walking is up to each participant. After registering, the participant receives access to a geotagged app. The route can be chosen freely by the private persons / teams regardless of location.
With this initiative, the organizers want to draw attention to innovation and sustainability in the real estate industry. Everyone can contribute to this. Because sustainability is not a local but a global issue. Just like the Global Real Estate Run . As a “green” sign, thanks to the main partners Unispace , Immo! Nvest and PropTechMarket , a tree is planted for every kilometer covered.
Autumn is approaching with great strides and with it, unfortunately, the time of increasing corona case numbers again. A decentralized team event outdoors provides planning security and does not require a certificate or the associated organizational effort. Companies can register as an entire company or only participate with individual teams. An ideal opportunity for a strategy walk away from the hectic everyday life – or just for a nice chat among work colleagues.
For this purpose, some companies used the event last spring for additional team building measures and spontaneously organized an aperitif reception, started their own slack channel to strengthen the (international) team spirit or decided to collect waste along the entire route Communicate this good deed through social media. Interested parties can find more impressions of the past event here .
There are no special requirements for participation, only the will to complete 6 kilometers within 24 hours. Whether jogging or ambitious walking is up to each participant. After registering, the participant receives access to a geotagged app. The route can be chosen freely by the private persons / teams regardless of location.
With this initiative, the organizers want to draw attention to innovation and sustainability in the real estate industry. Everyone can contribute to this. Because sustainability is not a local but a global issue. Just like the Global Real Estate Run . As a “green” sign, thanks to the main partners Unispace , Immo! Nvest and PropTechMarket , a tree is planted for every kilometer covered.
According to a statement from Fundamenta Real Estate AG , the Zug-based real estate company generated net rental income totaling 17.9 million francs in the first half of 2021. In a year-on-year comparison, this corresponds to growth of 10.6 percent. The communication cites the completion of projects and the purchase of new properties as growth drivers. In addition, the company was able to reduce its vacancy rate year-on-year by 0.8 percentage points to 2.7 percent.
The net profit in the reporting semester was 12.0 million francs, 36.7 percent more than in the first half of 2020. "The strong profit growth" is mainly due to the good operational development and a revaluation success of 5.3 million francs, writes Fundamenta Real estate. The company also points to a “disproportionate increase in operating expenses”.
The balance sheet value of Fundamenta Real Estate's real estate portfolio exceeded the billion mark for the first time on June 30, 2021. Compared to the end of 2020, the value increased from CHF 991.9 million to a good CHF 1.06 billion. The company acquired three properties in the reporting semester and transferred two projects to the portfolio after completion. As of the reporting date, the portfolio comprised a total of 66 existing properties and two development projects. In July, Fundamenta Real Estate acquired another residential property with 13 residential units in Richterswil ZH.
The travel industry regularly honors the most interesting start-ups. Four young Swiss companies presented themselves at the fourth Travel Start-up Night organized by the Association of Internet Travel Sales (VIR) and the Travel Industry Club. According to a VIR announcement, open2work was able to convince the analog and digital participants. The Zurich start-up will be able to present itself to representatives of the travel industry in German-speaking countries in Frankfurt in December.
The open2work platform enables companies with surplus office space to offer these interested parties for hourly or daily use. According to co-founder and CEO Lionel Ebener, the company, which was founded in 2020, already has 27 locations in Switzerland. There is also interest on the demand side. The platform recorded 30 bookings in the first week of September. "Our customers can now see that we are something special."
The start-up is now looking for funding in the mid six-figure range. “We want to build a professional infrastructure and now make all steps scalable,” says Ebener. open2work wants to become the Airbnb for offices.
The district building in Baden has been refurbished since March with ongoing operations. According to the media release, all natural stone and artificial stone components are being restored and the facade base plaster partially replaced. The construction work will be completed in October 2021. Under the project management of the real estate department of the city of Baden as the client, the work is strictly based on the historical model. The construction project is being accompanied by Heiko Dobler, building consultant for the cantonal monument preservation department.
The model for the renovation of the former schoolhouse, which was built in 1856/57, is the facade of the renovated Ochsen branch in the spa district. In the course of the renovation work, the existing plastic-contaminated plaster was completely milled off and a new lime plaster was applied based on the historical model. The facade was then given a new coat of paint and all 108 wooden windows were replaced. Both the planned construction time and the budget can presumably be adhered to, according to the statement from the city of Baden.
During the renovation work, two special factors had to be taken into account. On the one hand, there are nesting sites for the protected swifts and alpine swifts. The upper part of the scaffolding was designed accordingly by mid-April. "This meant that suitable nesting sites were available to the birds returning from the south in good time," the city councilor in charge Philippe Ramseier is quoted as saying.
Furthermore, special security requirements of the canton police and the district prison as tenants of the district building had to be met. For example, a three-meter-high board wall and a barbed wire at the end were installed.
Around 5 percent of annual electricity consumption in Switzerland is currently covered by domestically produced solar electricity, explains Swissolar in a press release . In the standard electricity products of the energy suppliers, however, the proportion of solar electricity is only 1.85 percent on average. The Association of the Swiss Solar Energy Industry is working together with the power comparison service myNewEnergy to increase the solar proportion of standard products to this 5 percent in a first step.
“This value should be increased annually by at least the amount of additional construction in question,” Swissolar managing director David Stickelberger is quoted in the announcement. “Around 1 percent would correspond to the necessary expansion of photovoltaic systems.”
The majority of households do not choose a special electricity product and therefore receive the standard offer from the respective energy supplier, explains Swissolar in the press release. If the proportion of solar power in the standard product is increased to the proportion of power consumption, the comparatively expensive power is divided among a large number of consumers, argues Swissolar. This keeps the product price low and opens up new sales markets for providers of solar power who have been “sitting on their clean electricity” up to now.
“It is important that these certificates come exclusively from Swiss solar systems, because only such certificates make an effective contribution to a safe and clean power supply in our country,” explains Stickelberger. “To replace the nuclear power plant alone, we need 20 terawatt hours of solar power.”
The Aargau government council has appointed Verena Rohrer as the new head of the cantonal location promotion agency Aargau Services . She is the successor to Annelise Alig Anderhalden, who accepted a new challenge in the spring. Rohrer will take up her new position on January 1, 2022.
According to a statement from the government council, Rohrer is very well anchored in the canton of Aargau. From 2011 to 2017 she was in charge of the regional Brugg Regio location promotion. In addition, the 40-year-old also has several years of experience in the private sector. For example, she is a member of the executive board of the wholesaler Bio Partner Switzerland based in Seon AG. Rohrer has been Head of Central Services at Caritas Aargau since 2019.
“Due to her knowledge of location promotion, her networking in the canton and her professional experience, Verena Rohrer has the best prerequisites to decisively further develop the location promotion of the canton of Aargau together with the experienced employees of Aargau Services,” said government councilor Dieter Egli (SP), head of the department Economics and Home Affairs, quoted in the communication.
The Aargau Services location promotion contributes to the continuous improvement of the business environment in Aargau. It also supports foreign companies wishing to settle in the canton. As part of the implementation of the new cantonal development model, Aargau Services will, according to its own information, also take on important tasks. The development model envisages further strengthening the business location and linking living and working in the canton more closely.
The Department of Environment, Building and Design of SUPSI starts its high-profile public lecture series on the climate and environmental crisis on September 22nd. According to a press release, this reflects “the challenges facing our entire knowledge”. It is entitled “Earth Emergency – Live, Build, Think a Sustainable Future”. A total of four events are planned in this context on the SUPSI campus in Mendrisio. They are not only aimed at students, but also for all citizens. Participation is free in each case, but registrations are required.
Thomas Stocker from the University of Bern will play the first evening. In its announcement, SUPSI introduces him as “one of the most important protagonists of international climate research”. The professor for climate and environmental physics has been working on the climate for 30 years and was instrumental in drafting the UN reports on climate change. On September 22nd at 6:30 pm he will give a lecture entitled “Climate Crisis – Is There a Vaccine?”.
On October 27, the geophysicist and former President of the Roman Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology , Domenico Giardini, will give a lecture on the subject of “On the way to Mars”. On December 9th, Telmo Pievani, Professor of the First Chair in Italy for Philosophy of Biological Sciences at the Faculty of Biology at the University of Padua, will give a lecture entitled “We are changing the world and the world is changing: An evolutionary look at the environmental crisis”.
Finally, Francesca Bria, President of the National Innovation Fund of Italy and Honorary Professor at the Institute for Innovation and Public Affairs at London’s Global University , will speak on February 23, 2022 on “The Revolution of the City: Data Democracy, Participation and Ecological Change”.
With its construction project for the Rieter Campus, Rieter is committed to the Winterthur location and to Switzerland as a business location, according to a press release from the textile machine manufacturer. The foundation stone for the new customer and technology center as well as the administration building was laid on Wednesday. The company, which has been based in Winterthur for 225 years, is investing around 80 million francs in this
From 2024, the Rieter campus is to offer space for around 700 workplaces on a floor area of over 30,000 square meters. To this end, the company developed an open room concept with a specialist in office architecture. With heat generation via geothermal probes and a 1,300 square meter photovoltaic system, Rieter is relying on renewable energies. “The entrepreneurial focus on sustainable and energy-efficient solutions for yarn production is thus reflected in the overall concept of the campus,” CEO Norbert Klapper is quoted as saying.
In the course of its company history, Rieter has helped shape the city of Winterthur, said Chairman of the Board of Directors Bernhard Jucker. “Now, with the new campus, the foundation is being laid for the future as a leading technology company.”
The Technischen Betriebe Glarus ( tb.glarus ) are building a solar system on the roof of the gymnasium belonging to the Glarus Cantonal School. Private customers can buy their desired area of solar panels there and receive a fixed amount of solar power in return for 20 years.
By participating in such a solar community, tenants without their own roof also have the opportunity to subsidize locally generated solar power. Another advantage is that you don’t have to worry about investment costs, planning or maintenance, according to tb.glarus in a press release .
This emerging solar community is the third that tb.glarus is realizing. Two solar communities have already been successfully put into operation at the branch garden gym in Netstal GL. With its 666 square meters, the new facility will be almost twice as large as these two combined.
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