When Ernst Otto Walker, managing director of the Frankfurt development office Walker & Walker, talks about his Offenbach project Namu, the experienced real estate developer shows an almost youthful enthusiasm. The reason: The 124 meter high high-rise, which was designed by the Berlin architects Eike Becker, is to be built using a timber hybrid construction method.
The house with 32 floors and 60,000 square meters of space has stored many tons of CO2 by using wood as the dominant building material. If, on the other hand, the high-rise building were built using a conventional construction method made of concrete and steel, a huge CO2 load would arise from the construction material concrete, as large amounts of carbon dioxide are produced in the production of cement, the essential raw material for concrete.
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