Halter AG wins tender for ewb site
Halter AG has won the tender for the site of the energy supplier Energie Wasser Bern (ewb) in Bern-Aussenholligen. The real estate developer envisages three high-rise buildings and a sustainable mobility concept for the industrial area.
The real estate developer Halter from Schlieren has won the tender for the development of the ewb site in Bern’s Ausserholligen district. A “sustainable, lively and diversely mixed working and living environment” is to be created there, according to a media release.
According to the statement, the Halter team’s plans call for three high-rise buildings on the site, which was previously used primarily for industrial purposes, between the Weyermannshaus sports and leisure facility and Europaplatz. One high-rise is to become the new ewb headquarters. In the other two buildings, the newly founded Viadukt cooperative plans to house 220 flats.
Public transport as well as pedestrian and bicycle traffic will be given priority over private motorised transport. This will be ensured, among other things, by three S-Bahn stops as well as trams and buses.
The electricity for the neighbourhood will come from photovoltaic systems on roofs and facades. Foundation piles, groundwater and waste heat sources are to be used for local heat and cold production and storage.
“The concept of the winning project gives us the opportunity to realise our new headquarters in a newly created environment that meets the high sustainability standards of the city of Bern and ewb,” said Cornelia Mellenberger, CEO of ewb, according to a media release at the presentation of the winning project on 3 April in the presence of Mayor Alec von Graffenried and other stakeholders.
All the competition projects can be viewed at the Forsthaus energy centre from 22 to 26 May.