China’s increasing economic development has led to the construction of many large commercial complexes with an increasing demand for escalators with great heights and large spans, without intermediate supports.
In the Italian town of Brescia, the company Rubner Objektbau GmbH, functioning as the general contractor, has built an apartment complex with appealing architecture consisting of timber. Four housing complexes with a total of 72 housing units were constructed in a minimal amount of time. For the Lombard Institute for Residential Buildings (ALER), this was the first project carried out in wood.