From the stack to the 3-ton truss „We developed tremendously over the years – and along with us our production plants “, says Bodo Mierisch who has been co-managing Opitz Holzbau together with Martin Opitz since 2003. How far this development has progressed in the meantime becomes evident during an on-site visit. B  Kathrin Lanz   P  Kathrin Lanz, Opitz Holzbau (1)

Holzbau 1 In Berlin-Kreuzberg, eleven large-volume high-rise buildings with six or seven stories each were expanded by a stacked story made from a wood panel construction. The order total of this timber building contract was a seven-digit euro figure. Just a few kilometers away in Neuruppin/DE, a five-story timber hybrid building that satisfies highest architectural standards was completed only recently. Starting in 2018, a new five-story residential building complete with a CLT staircase will be built in Cologne – a construction project unparalleled in the rest of Germany. Three construction...