One of Europe’s Largest Hybrid Timber Buildings Nears Completion
BIG Progress! The Massive Timber Build on the Luxembourg Runway
One of Europe’s largest hybrid timber buildings is progressing rapidly, Wood Central reported (9-6-24). Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) said the Luxembourg Airport’s Skypark Business Centre (SBC) is almost fully enclosed and on track to open in the coming months.
Kai-Uwe Bergmann, a partner at BIG, said, “one of Europe’s largest mass timber hybrid buildings (at 78,000 m2 under construction) will include office space, a conference center, retail, as well as a Moxy Hotel servicing LUX Airport.”
The project was initially revealed in 2018, with BIG collaborating with Metaform on the enormous project, which was beset with delays (due to the pandemic), which saw the original 2021–22 construction timeline pushed out to late 2024.
The building consists of two long and slim volumes (17 meters in width) stacked and rotated 180 degrees: “The seven-story structure is comprised of all wood in its upper structures, bridges and slabs and consists of two stacked zigzagging bars,” BIG said, according to Wood Central.
More than 13,000 m2 of CLT boards, supplied by binderholz, were used on the project, while Luxembourg-based Steffen Holzbau fabricated and installed the timber on-site.
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