Green steel makes Forster Campus particularly sustainable
Forster Profilsysteme is building a new headquarters in Romanshorn. The building complex is to receive the Gold Level of LEED certification for ecological construction. This is made possible by green steel supplied by Debrunner Acifer.
Forster Profilsysteme is having a new company headquarters built in Romanshorn. There, activities and employees of the two previous locations in Arbon TG are to be combined. The new Forster Campus, covering around 30,000 square metres, will include a production and logistics hall, an office building and a technology centre.
The building complex is to receive Gold Level certification of the international Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard for ecological building. Only particularly sustainable buildings can receive the highest certification. To achieve this, CO2-reduced steel, so-called green steel, will be used in the construction of the campus.
Debrunner Acifer AG, a member of the Debrunner Koenig Group in St.Gallen, supplied a total of 600 tonnes of green steel for the Forster Campus. The order thus constitutes the first major project with green steel for the B2B trading partner and service provider in Switzerland. “Of course, conventional steel is also 100 per cent recyclable,” Willi Lüchinger, CEO of Forster Profilsysteme AG, is quoted as saying in a corresponding press release from Debrunner Acifer. “But with the use of CO2-reduced steel, we go one step further in sustainability: thanks to Green Steel, we achieve the LEED Gold level.”