Lucerne: Municipal pension fund builds 53 apartments
An energy-efficient new building for the Pension Fund of the City of Lucerne is being built in the Würzenbach district. The generation house is scheduled for completion in two years.
The Pension Fund of the City of Lucerne (PKSL) is building 53 apartments in the Würzenbach quarter in Lucerne. The approval process has been completed without any objections, so construction work can begin in August. A two-year construction phase and occupation of the first apartments in late fall 2024 are expected.
The project started in 2019 with an architectural competition. Designs by Hanspeter Oester and Reto Pfenniger Architekten from Zurich will be realized. In the generation house, apartments with 2.5 to 5.5 rooms and a room height of 2.60 m will be created. The building will be planned according to the SIA energy efficiency path, heated entirely by means of geothermal probes and supplied with electricity from a photovoltaic system.
In the same street in Würzenbachmatte, PKSL owns four other apartment buildings. In these properties, which date from 1964, the fossil-fuel heating systems are currently being replaced by decentralized ground-source heat pumps. (aw)
