📋 Tender Overview
ZUBLIN Timber has started with the timber construction works for the Globe Theatre in Coburg. The building ensemble consists of a total of four buildings connected by intermediate structures. The theatre will initially serve as an interim venue for the Coburg State Theatre which is being completely renovated. In the long term the new building will be used for a variety of different purposes.The centre of the complex is a striking round timber hybrid building with some 5100 m of gross floor space distributed over four floors and one basement level. The three ancillary buildings have been designed as two-storey timber framed buildings offering a further total of almost 2000 m of gross floor space.ZUBLIN Timber realising all timber construction workThe team from ZUBLIN Timber is handling all the timber construction works on the Globe Theatre from workshop planning to the production and assembly of the timber elements and related tasks such as roof sealing. Around 3400 m of LENO cross-laminated timber 400 m of glulam and 80 t of steel will be used. The contract is worth around 6 million.When completed the main building of the theatre will count among the architectural highlights in the city of Coburg above all thanks to the striking cross-laminated timber louver faade covering the entire height of the building. The ancillary buildings will also be clad in wood. In total ZBLIN Timber is producing 2000 m of timber faade for the project. The interior walls will also be fitted with wood while the approx. 1450 m of floor slabs will be built using a timber-concrete composite system.The timber construction work on the ancillary buildings is scheduled for completion by the end of August 2021. In early July 2021 ZBLIN Timber will start work on the main building which is scheduled to be finished in February 2022.
