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  • Ground-breaking ceremony heralds Theilerhaus transformation

    Ground-breaking ceremony heralds Theilerhaus transformation

    The Theilerhaus, originally built in 1896 by Richard Theiler, an accomplished watchmaker, and the entrepreneur Adelrich Gyr as the site of their “Electrotechnisches Institut Theiler und Cie”, played a central role in Zug’s industrial development. Over the years, the building underwent several changes of ownership and served as the nucleus for Landis & Gyr’s rise to become a globally recognised technology group. The takeover of the site by the Canton of Zug in 1989 paved the way for today’s reorganisation.

    A modern justice and catering facility
    The ground floor of the Theilerhaus will house a restaurant, which will not only serve as a neighbourhood meeting place, but also provide catering facilities for cantonal employees. The upper floors will be given a new purpose as the seat of the administrative court, with a courtroom on the third floor and the former panelled director’s room on the second floor, which will regain its significance through the use of the presiding judge.

    Integration and appreciation of the historical heritage
    The redesign of the Theilerhaus is the result of an intensive dialogue with the conservation authorities and aims to preserve the historical substance and architectural identity of the building. The project was carefully planned by the consortium CST Architekten AG and Eggenspieler Architekten AG, both based in Zug, to ensure that the Theilerhaus remains a living testimony to local industrial history and a valuable cultural asset for the people of Zug.

  • The Circle: Switzerland's largest Minergie building certified

    The Circle: Switzerland's largest Minergie building certified

    Minergie and LEED certification has been an integral part of planning and construction at the Circle for 12 years. In the presence of Christian Appert, CEO Amstein + Walthert AG, Martin Kull, CEO and owner HRS Real Estate AG, Daniel Scheifele, Chief Real Estate Officer, Flughafen Zürich AG, Giorgio Engeli, Head Real Estate Portfolio Management Switzerland, Swiss Life Asset Managers, and Stefan Feldmann, Head The Circle, Flughafen Zürich AG, the team around The Circle celebrated on Monday, June 27, 2022, the goal they have now achieved.

    Beautiful, functional, climate-optimized
    With a good 200,000 m 2 energy reference area, the circle accounted for 6% of the certified Minergie area in the year of provisional certification, but was only one of around 1,900 buildings. This shows the size and importance of this extraordinary building in the Swiss context. The Circle is the largest Minergie-certified building in Switzerland. According to government councilor Marc Mächler, the Minergie certificate means that – in addition to all other requirements and uses – the building is also climate-optimized. Climate-optimized means «that this building does not accelerate climate change and that it uses resources carefully. It is efficient and works almost entirely with renewable energy instead of fossil energy.”  

    Thanks to intensive cooperation between the Minergie certification body and those responsible for the circle, the high requirements of the Minergie quality label for the building envelope and ventilation could also be met. Andreas Meyer Primavesi, Managing Director of Minergie, is pleased that the result ultimately benefits everyone: "Especially with today's energy prices, every kilowatt hour of energy saved is worth it – not only for the climate, but also financially".

    Into the net-zero energy future
    With the leading Swiss building label Minergie, more than 12 million tons of CO 2 and 67 million megawatt hours of energy have been saved since 1998 thanks to over 53,000 Minergie buildings compared to the minimum legal requirements. Minergie certifies around 3 million m 2 of energy reference area per year. In close coordination with the cantons, Minergie always leads the way and is therefore a pioneer in cantonal energy laws. This interaction has worked since the beginning and continues successfully. Minergie is currently looking very closely at the energy used and the greenhouse gas emissions in the construction of a building. And secondly, Minergie is striving to improve the operating phase: Extensive, digitized building data is used to measure the energy flows during operation in order to then carry out operational optimization where necessary on the basis of the monitoring. For years, fossil-free operation – even with modernization – Minergie is moving more and more towards net zero. The Minergie-A-ECO standard comes closest to the Swiss net-zero building.