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Strategy: Optimising building design
Location: Austria
Organisation: CREE Buildings
CREE GMBH is an Austrian start-up that has developed an innovative timber-based prefabrication system to create flexible and adaptable structures. Its patented timber-hybrid system offers numerous benefits, including up to a 50% reduction in embodied emissions and enhanced material efficiency through standardisation and prefabrication. CREE has delivered several flagship projects including the ‘EDGE Suedkreuz’ office building in Berlin (29 m, eight floors) and ‘LCT One’ office in Dornbirn (27 m, eight floors).
