Groundbreaking ceremony for Zurich St. Andrew's Tower
Yesterday, Wednesday, the total contractor Implenia AG together with the building owner SBB Immobilien broke ground for the Andreasturm in Zurich Oerlikon. The high-rise project with 22 floors and an investment sum of over CHF 100 million is scheduled for completion by May 2018.
The new Andreasturm with over 20,000 square meters of office, retail and gastronomy space as well as direct access to the platform at the Zurich Oerlikon train station will be built according to the German "DGNB Platinum" label adapted by the Swiss Sustainable Real Estate Council (SGNI). The building will be realized using the so-called lid construction method. In this method, from the concrete ceiling of the second basement level onwards, the floors below are constructed at the same time as the floors above ground.
The anchor tenant in the future St. Andrew's Tower will be the engineering company Amstein + Walthert AG, which will occupy around 10,000 square meters of office space (floors 1 to 12). The design for the 80-meter high new building project was provided by the architects Gigon/Guyer. (mr)
