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  • Five companies are in the final of the Prix SVC Zurich Economic Area

    Five companies are in the final of the Prix SVC Zurich Economic Area

    The finalists for the Prix SVC Zurich Economic Area 2024 have been announced. An independent jury of experts with strong regional roots has decided in favour of Hauenstein AG, Hawa Sliding Solutions AG, Luzi AG, RepRisk AG and Schneider Umweltservices AG, the SVC announced in a press release.

    “I am very much looking forward to the Prix SVC and believe the decision as to who will win the prize has never been as challenging as this year,” said jury president Christopher Blaufelder, Partner at McKinsey & Company Switzerland, in the press release. “We have consistently high-quality companies from a wide range of industries in the final selection.” According to Blaufelder, all of them are characterised by a focus on quality and innovation.

    Hauenstein AG from Rafz ZH relies on the sustainable in-house production of native, hardy plants in its tree nursery and garden centres. Hawa Sliding Solutions AG from Mettmenstetten ZH specialises in sliding solutions for rooms, furniture and façades. Globally active Luzi AG from Dietlikon ZH develops and produces fragrance creations.

    RepRisk AG from Zurich specialises in the identification of business and ESG risks. Schneider Umweltservice AG from Meilen ZH specialises in innovative and environmentally friendly solutions for reuse and recycling.

    The Swiss Venture Club is one of the largest entrepreneurial networks in Switzerland. It awards the Prix SVC in eight regions every two years. The prize honours innovative companies in the region for outstanding achievements that enable sustainable economic success to be realised.

  • Potential for transformation despite development delay in Basel

    Potential for transformation despite development delay in Basel

    The study conducted by Sotomo shows that Basel has experienced subdued growth momentum over the last ten years, particularly in comparison with cities such as Zurich, Geneva and Bern. With only six per cent growth in the housing stock since 2012, Basel brings up the rear among the eight largest Swiss cities. Only a small proportion of flats were built after 1990, which suggests a delayed development dynamic.

    Demographic challenges and opportunities
    The study also emphasises that Basel is the only city in the study that does not have a birth surplus, which indicates a weak population dynamic. The comparatively low proportion of young adults and families and the high proportion of older households reflect a demographic challenge that also influences the development of the labour market.

    Despite these challenges, the study emphasises that new-build flats do not necessarily lead to higher rents in existing flats. On the contrary, they could even revitalise the market for affordable flats in older buildings. This points to untapped opportunities in urban planning and development.

    The potential of “Klybeck Plus“
     One particularly striking example of untapped potential is the planned “Klybeck Plus” urban quarter. This area is to be built on a former industrial site and offers space for flats for 8,500 people and 7,500 jobs. similar to Basel’s Gundeli or Geneva’s Le Pâquis neighbourhood, “Klybeck Plus” could offer a lively mix of living and working and at the same time be as green as Basel’s Gellert district.

    The study emphasises that, despite current challenges, Basel has considerable potential that can be exploited through strategic planning and innovative development concepts. The results are a wake-up call for urban planners, developers and political decision-makers to mobilise the available resources and reposition Basel as a dynamic and future-oriented city.

  • Prix SVC Eastern Switzerland 2024 goes to Zindel United

    Prix SVC Eastern Switzerland 2024 goes to Zindel United

    Zindel United from Maienfeld has won this year’s Prix SVC Ostschweiz, the Swiss Venture Club(SVC) announced in a press release. The prize honours innovative companies in the region for outstanding achievements that enable sustainable economic success to be realised. “Zindel United realises its vision – developing complete solutions from ideas for future generations, inspiring people and protecting the environment in the process – in an exemplary and pioneering manner,” said jury president Andrea Fanzun in the press release, quoting from his laudatory speech.

    Zindel United specialises in construction-related services. The family-run company, now in its eighth generation, is committed to the circular economy in the construction industry. To this end, Zindel United relies on local raw materials and, according to the company, “is making a relevant contribution to achieving the 2050 climate targets with Switzerland’s first demonstrably CO2-neutral concrete”.

    Märchenhotel AG from Braunwald GL and Huber Fenster AG from Herisau AR were awarded the silver and bronze medals in the competition. The multi-award-winning Märchenhotel for families with children has developed into one of the largest tourist employers in the canton of Glarus since it was founded in 1977. Huber Fenster AG, now in its fifth generation, specialises in custom-made windows and façade elements that meet the architect’s specifications.

  • Birsstadt honoured with the Wakker Prize

    Birsstadt honoured with the Wakker Prize

    The Swiss Heritage Society is awarding this year’s Wakker Prize to the Birsstadt association. It honours the cooperation between nine municipalities in the canton of Basel-Landschaft and the Solothurn municipality of Dornach in solving the challenges in the agglomeration. This cooperation lays the foundation for repairing the uncoordinated growth of the area at the gates of the Basel metropolis.

    In its press release, Heimatschutz praises in particular the upgrading of the natural and living space along the Birs, the careful further development of important industrial sites and the safeguarding and strengthening of the architectural heritage. However, Birsstadt also addresses overarching strategies in the areas of landscape, settlement, mobility and adaptation to climate change.

    The Birsstadt association was founded in 2018. In addition to Dornach, it includes the municipalities of Aesch, Arlesheim, Birsfelden, Duggingen, Grellingen, Muttenz, Münchenstein, Pfeffingen and Reinach. Together, the ten municipalities have a population of around 94,000. The association sees great opportunities in being honoured by the Heritage Society. It wants to use this opportunity to make the Birsstadt better known throughout Switzerland, it writes in its own press release. It also intends to launch a project this year on dealing with building culture in the region.

    The award will be presented on 22 June as part of a Wakker Prize celebration on the Domplatz in Arlesheim.

  • Call for applications for the “Binding Prize for Biodiversity”

    Call for applications for the “Binding Prize for Biodiversity”

    For further information on this call for applications, we recommend that you visit the official website of the Sophie and Karl Binding Foundation. There you will find up-to-date information and details on how to apply.

  • Future developments in the Swiss property market

    Future developments in the Swiss property market

    Switzerland’s permanent resident population will break the 9 million barrier in the first half of 2024. The “magic” 10 million mark should then be reached by the mid-2030s. This additional million is likely to set new records: Never before has the resident population increased so quickly. Never before has a million-strong increase been driven so strongly by international migration and at the same time accompanied by so little construction activity.

    The creation of more than enough living space and a massive expansion of the transport infrastructure have been responsible for the fact that rents have risen significantly less than wages since Switzerland’s 5 million population in 1955. What has been true over the last 70 years – falling housing costs, greater consumption of space per person and more comfortable living – is now likely to be a thing of the past. This is because the cumulative shortfall of at least 150,000 flats by 2034 due to the slowdown in construction activity is likely to keep the consumption of living space stable.

    Prices and rents outpace wage growth
    Rents are therefore likely to rise faster than incomes in the coming years. Rents on offer could increase by a total of 25 to 30 per cent in real terms by the mid-2030s – comparable to the trend between 2002 and 2012. In contrast to the last 70 years, rents in city centres are also likely to rise more strongly than in the periphery due to the high level of immigration.

    Residential property prices – both for owner-occupied homes and apartment blocks – are also expected to rise faster than incomes, with interest rates remaining moderate overall. On the one hand, prime locations will remain in disproportionately high demand as a result of growth. On the other hand, the “suburbs” of the major centres will increasingly expand into the previously extended agglomerations, which will also increase the willingness to pay there. Residential property therefore has the potential to match or even exceed past increases in value.

    Golden age with reservations
    However, dreams of high increases in value due to rising rents could quickly turn out to be an illusion. If the housing situation of many households deteriorates, politicians could burden the market with additional regulations. In such a scenario, construction activity could fall even further and households would have to move even closer together. The long-term losers would also be the building fabric and sustainability due to a lack of incentives for comprehensive and energy-efficient renovations.

  • Cantonal properties in Riehen win sustainability award

    Cantonal properties in Riehen win sustainability award

    The properties of the Canton of Basel-Stadt at Hirtenweg 16 to 28 in Riehen have won this year’s international prize for sustainable architecture, the cantonal finance department informs in a statement. Every year, the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Ferrara and the building materials company Fassa Bortolo award the prize to projects “that are geared to the needs of people and serve as role models in the careful use of natural resources”, it continues. In this year’s competition, the cantonal properties prevailed over numerous other projects from all over the world.

    The international jury was particularly impressed by two aspects of the properties in Riehen. One was the socially acceptable densification of living space. Of the five buildings already on the plot, the canton renovated three. The remaining two were demolished and replaced by three new buildings. This almost doubled the number of flats from 32 to 63.

    On the other hand, the resource-saving solid wood construction method was the decisive factor in the project realised by the project team Harry Gugger Studio AG, Erne AG Holzbau and Fontana Landschaftsarchitektur. The wooden modules were prefabricated in a production hall and then assembled on site within a very short time. During the entire construction work, the residents of the properties were able to stay on site. Residents of the deconstructed buildings moved into an already completed new building before their old house was demolished.

  • Frischknecht Holzbau-Team AG wins the Innovation Award Zürcher Unterland 2023

    Frischknecht Holzbau-Team AG wins the Innovation Award Zürcher Unterland 2023

    This year’s Innovation Award Zürcher Unterland has gone to Frischknecht Holzbau-Team AG. The company from Kloten “has shown a lot of courage with the introduction of a four-day week to combat the shortage of skilled workers and has gained new and valuable experience for the construction industry”, writes the association Standort Zürcher Unterland in a statement. It has organised the competition to honour innovations from the Unterland region every year since 2021.

    Comtag AG from Wil ZH came in second with its innovative cleaning process for coffee grinders. Third place went to Green Datacenter AG from Lupfig AG. It was awarded for its Metro Campus Dielsdorf. The waste heat from the data centre in Unterland can be used by households and businesses in the surrounding area.

    The prize money of 5000 Swiss francs for the first-placed company and 2500 Swiss francs each for the second and third-placed companies was donated by the sponsors Zürcher Kantonalbank and Vetropack. The award ceremony took place on 14 September as part of the innovation event at Vivi Kola in the premises of the former mineral springs in Eglisau. The 50 or so participants were also offered a programme of presentations and seminars as well as a tour of Vivi Kola’s factory facilities.

    This year’s Innovation Award Zürcher Unterland went to Frischknecht Holzbau-Team AG. The company from Kloten “has shown a lot of courage with the introduction of a four-day week to combat the shortage of skilled workers and has gained new and valuable experience for the construction industry”, writes the association Standort Zürcher Unterland in a statement. It has organised the competition to honour innovations from the Unterland region every year since 2021.

    Comtag AG from Wil ZH came in second with its innovative cleaning process for coffee grinders. Third place went to Green Datacenter AG from Lupfig AG. It was awarded for its Metro Campus Dielsdorf. The waste heat from the data centre in Unterland can be used by households and businesses in the surrounding area.

    The prize money of 5000 Swiss francs for the first-placed company and 2500 Swiss francs each for the second and third-placed companies was donated by the sponsors Zürcher Kantonalbank and Vetropack. The award ceremony took place on 14 September as part of the innovation event at Vivi Kola in the premises of the former mineral springs in Eglisau. The 50 or so participants were also offered a programme of presentations and seminars as well as a tour of Vivi Kola’s factory facilities.

  • Tilbago offers the cheapest debt collection statement

    Tilbago offers the cheapest debt collection statement

    Tilbago AG is lowering the price for digitally signed debt collection statements to 22.90 Swiss francs. This means that this “fully digital bridge” between private individuals and debt collection offices is the most cost-effective at the Lucerne-based company, according to a media release.

    A digital debt collection statement replaces the previously common paper form for a credit report, as it is required, for example, before concluding rental, credit or leasing contracts. It can be ordered online, is usually delivered by e-mail within a few hours and can be used as often as desired. The digital statement proves ex officio and forgery-proof that a person does not have any outstanding debts that are or have been enforced by means of debt collection.

    The online debt collection solution tilbago is a PostFinance innovation. Tilbago guides companies fully automatically through the debt collection process. This is intended to automate and optimise workflows and make it easier to comply with legal requirements and deadlines. The solution is hosted by PostFinance. According to the company, this means that the data remains in Switzerland and is protected in the PostFinance data centre.

  • Feld school in Azmoos wins architecture prize

    Feld school in Azmoos wins architecture prize

    The Feld school in Azmoos has won first place in this year's Constructive Alps architecture prize, the Federal Office for Spatial Development ( ARE ) reports in a statement . It represents Switzerland in the competition organized jointly with Liechtenstein. Constructive Alps recognizes sustainable building and renovation in the Alps. With the competition, the two countries want to promote the implementation of the Alpine Convention for the sustainable development of the mountain region.

    The Feld schoolhouse was built on the site of the old schoolhouse in Azmoos. It offers space for more than twice as many children as the old school building on the same built-up area. The socially and ecologically sustainable timber construction also impressed with its own photovoltaic system, among other things.

    The second prize was awarded jointly to the headquarters of the heating specialist ÖkoFEN France in Saint-Baldoph and the Ghiringhelli residential development in Bellinzona. Third place went to the renovated Falkenhütte in Hinterriss in the Austrian Karwendel Mountains.

    Switzerland will hold the presidency of the Alpine Convention in 2021/22. The internationally binding agreement between the eight Alpine states and the European Union has set itself the goal of developing the Alps into a model region for climate protection and adaptation to climate change. Under the aegis of Switzerland, the focus was on climate, sustainable mobility, Alpine towns, sustainable construction and modal shift.

  • ETH Professor Kaijima receives Wolf Prize

    ETH Professor Kaijima receives Wolf Prize

    Professor of Architectural Behaviorology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich ( ETH ), Momoyo Kaijima, and her partner Yoshiharu Tsukamoto have been awarded this year’s Wolf Prize for Architecture. Tsukamoto is a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Both run the Atelier Bow-​Wow together. According to the ETH media release , the jury chose the works of both professors as prizewinners because of their great sensitivity to local contexts and the social effects of architecture.

    The Wolf Prize has been awarded to scientists and artists by the Israel-based Wolf Foundation since 1978. Merits for the benefit of mankind and friendly relations between peoples are honored. According to the ETH announcement, former award winners in the architecture category include Frank O. Gehry, Jean Nouvel, Peter Eisenman and David Chipperfield. Momoyo Kaijima is only the third woman to receive the Wolf Prize for Architecture.

    After various guest professorships. at Harvard University, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Columbia University, among others, Momoyo Kaijima came to ETH Zurich in 2017, where she established the Chair of Architectural Behaviorology.

  • Zurich homes fetch record prices

    Zurich homes fetch record prices

    "Zurich's home prices are skyrocketing," writes the Zürcher Kantonalbank ( ZKB ) in its real estate barometer for the fourth quarter of 2021 . According to the analysts at ZKB, prices for residential property in the Canton of Zurich rose by an average of 9.3 percent year-on-year to new record levels. The analysts account for the highest increase of 11.3 percent for residential property in the lake communities and the city of Zurich.

    Rents also achieved “the highest overall annual growth since the end of 2014” in the reporting period, the barometer continues. The analysts attribute this to the currently falling figures for vacant apartments “in combination with robust immigration”. In the city of Zurich, on the other hand, “the centers lost their attractiveness during the pandemic”. Here, rents increased by only 0.5 percent year-on-year.

    The analysts also cite the long approval period for the construction of apartment buildings as a background for the developments. The approval period for major projects has almost doubled since 2001 from 183 to 324 days. "High-density construction often generates areas of friction and often leads to lengthy appeals and delays," the analysts explain. As a result, the implementation of many major projects is no longer decided in the Zurich building department, but in court. Ultimately, however, "in most cases a solution" can be found.

  • Availability of wood has stabilized

    Availability of wood has stabilized

    A major strength of building with wood is the great planning security. High quality and adherence to schedules are motivating more and more builders to implement extensive projects with wood. In 2021, however, price turbulence and long delivery times did not go unnoticed by the material wood.

    Market is returning to normal
    In the meantime, the warehouses at various retailers are full again. Suppliers can once again serve the Swiss market on schedule. "In Switzerland, the costs for the most common products such as glued laminated timber, construction timber C24 or multi-layer panels have stabilized at a slightly higher level than in the previous year," notes Hansjörg Steiner.

    inflation in construction
    «The changed material prices have only a minor impact on the total costs in construction. In the case of conversions, which require less material compared to new buildings, the price increase is not significant,” says Hansjörg Steiner. Building has basically become a little more expensive – caused by the price increase of almost all building materials.

    Regional use
    According to Florian Landolt from Wald Schweiz, the Swiss forestry industry is benefiting from the slightly higher prices, and is now able to cover its costs. The availability of Swiss wood products remains a major challenge. The Swiss timber construction companies are dependent on neighboring countries for 70% of the material. Targeted support for construction projects that use locally harvested wood would create efficient incentives to promote the entire Swiss wood chain and reduce dependency on other countries.

    Building with the renewable raw material wood
    Wood is the material of choice for energy-efficient and climate-friendly projects. Wood stores CO2 in the biomass – one ton of CO2 per cubic meter of wood used. Building with wood makes a significant contribution to achieving climate goals. In order to make the Swiss real estate park more climate-friendly, promoting timber construction is obvious, both for new buildings and conversions.

  • Winners of the Watt d'Or energy award have been announced

    Winners of the Watt d'Or energy award have been announced

    The Federal Office of Energy awarded its Watt d'Or energy prize for the 14th time on January 7th. The award is intended to publicize exceptional achievements in the energy sector. But there is no prize money.

    The prize was awarded in four categories. In the Energy Technologies category, Adaptricity emerged as the winner. The spin-off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich ( ETH ) is developing software that facilitates the planning and monitoring of distribution networks. In doing so, it helps to make the grids fit for the future of energy.

    In the renewable energies category, ABB and Romande Energie won a power plant in the Alps. On the Lac des Toules reservoir in Valais, Romande Energie operates a hydropower plant that also supplies solar power. The facility is unique for this height. ABB was able to successfully solve the technical challenges encountered during construction.

    In the energy-efficient mobility category, a joint project by the companies Hydrospider , Hyundai Hydrogen Mobility, H2 Energy and the H2 Mobility Switzerland association emerged as the winner. The partners want to set up the world's first commercial cycle for renewable hydrogen in Switzerland. This is intended to facilitate the use of hydrogen vehicles.

    There were two winners this year in the building and space category. On the one hand, the Umwelt Arena Schweiz from Spreitenbach AG and René Schmid Architekten AG have won. They convinced with a development in Männedorf ZH. Walter Schmid, energy pioneer and president of the Umwelt Arena Schweiz foundation, and his son, the architect René Schmid from René Schmid Architekten AG, rely on energy self-sufficiency in the association. Specifically, renewable electricity is produced with photovoltaic systems and wind energy systems. Half of this is used by the tenants. The rest is transported to a power-to-gas plant, converted into renewable gas and stored in the natural gas network for electricity and heat production in winter.

    On the other hand, St.Galler Mettiss AG and Beat Kegel won in this category. You have converted an old building into a passive house. In doing so, they relied on a new concept, which enabled the project to be implemented cheaply. The new tenant of the building is the University of St.Gallen .