More and more educational institutions are choosing wood for the construction or renovation of kindergartens, schools, universities, and sports facilities. This is a winning choice, as wooden surfaces are not only natural and aesthetically pleasing, but they also ensure a healthy indoor climate.

We are proud to have a global presence with our sustainable wooden constructions for education—from Aalen in Swabia to Australia. To give you an idea of the variety of our projects, we have gathered some inspiring examples.

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In just eleven months, we completed an entirely wooden complex at the Science Area Park university campus in Parma, Italy. Here, a public kindergarten and a facility for children from disadvantaged families have found a new and welcoming home. With approximately 400 m² of wooden walls and 2,300 m² of roof, the childcare center stands out for its clear and modern design.

The Grande Terres school community in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, near Paris, has received new recreational facilities and connections between buildings. The entrances to the primary school and kindergarten, lined along a tree-lined promenade, have been completely redesigned. The larch wooden facades and the curved roof give the complex an aesthetic unity that blends perfectly with the environment, creating a warm and welcoming atmosphere for learning and playing.

To ensure a pleasant environment for students and teachers, the Gymnasium Langenhagen was built with a hybrid wooden structure. Notably, the classrooms, organized in clusters, are directly accessible from the outside via walkways. Where building codes and fire safety regulations allowed, wood was chosen as the primary and finishing material. This project, completed in 2023, won the Lower Saxony Architecture Award for hybrid wooden constructions.

A healthy and welcoming educational and sports environment has been created for the Groupe Scolaire Julien Duret in Lyon.

In particular, the gym stands out with its laminated wooden structure that combines strength and aesthetics—a perfect example of using wood for sustainable and inviting spaces.

In Rotholz, Austria, we contributed to the construction of a sustainable school and research center. The area, which includes a school, dormitory, and sports facilities, is a hybrid wooden building: the upper floors were constructed from wood, in line with the school’s ecological values. The building designated for research and services was built from concrete to comply with health regulations. We managed the entire executive design and assembly process. The biggest challenge was protecting the large wood-concrete composite slabs for ten weeks until the roof was completed.

In the construction of a sustainable building, wood is essential. Thus, students at the new innovation center of the University of Padua can immerse themselves in their studies within a state-of-the-art wooden building. Laminated wooden beams, cross-laminated timber walls, and ceilings form the structural framework of the building, which houses the Faculty of Engineering. Some walls were made with continuous elements spanning two floors: from the ground to the first and from the second to the third.

The building for the Macquarie University Law School in New South Wales, Australia, is our first multi-story project on a university campus. A unique creation. The laminated wooden beams in the atrium support a translucent shed roof and are a distinctive feature of the building.

It is truly a showcase, as there is no other wooden building of this size in Australia with such an atrium. In collaboration with a local consulting team, we transformed the project into a ready-to-build solution and provided the expertise for an entirely wooden prefabricated structure. Certification of 5 Green Star is practically assured.

Smaller, but no less impressive, is the six-story building for the Faculty of Economics and the central university cafeteria at the High School Aalen campus. For the characteristic aluminum slat facade that defines the “campus in the woods” look, we produced structural beech columns and laminated beams for the load-bearing structure of the wood-concrete composite floors and for the exterior wall elements in frame construction.