b2 Development center, Rankweil (AT)
Construction neuve,
Construction en bois
Client: Omicron Asset Management GmbH
Location: A-6830 Rankweil, Römergrund
Architecture: Dietrich Untertrifaller
Construction: 2025 – 2026
Area: 7,200 m²
Programme: Office building for approx. 90 workstations plus technical infrastructure (high-voltage laboratories, workshops, warehouse, ...)
Renderings: Dietrich Untertrifaller
Team: Chris Braun, Peter Nußbaumer
Text: Gerlinde Jüttner
Partners
Statics timber: Merz Kaufmann Partner, Dornbirn
Statics concrete: gbd, Dornbirn
Geotechnics: 3P Geotechnik West, Bregenz
Fire protection: IHW-Ingenieurbüro Huber, Weiler
Building physics: Spektrum, Dornbirn
Building services: Qpunkt, Göfis
Electrics: Brugger, Thüringen
Light, Kardorff, Innsbruck
Three under one roof
b2 electronics in Klaus, which is part of the Omicron Group, gets a new company headquarters in Rankweil. We already expanded the Omicron headquarters in Klaus into a campus in 2015. Now we are uniting the three b2 locations in Klaus and Koblach under one roof.
The planned building offers space for production and storage areas as well as office space for around 140 employees on two basement floors and four upper floors. The special feature of the b2 Development Centre is that it is designed to grow with the company. If required, the first floor can be extended, adding 40 workstations to the offices on the second floor.
Timber construction with a solid base
The new headquarters of b2 is a sustainable hybrid building with PV systems, a groundwater heat pump and a green roof. The solid basement and access cores are followed by a timber construction with external walls made of prefabricated timber modules. We plan the building and processes in accordance with the klimaaktiv Gold Standard and thus set a strong example for environmentally conscious construction in the region.
Who is b2 electronics?
b2 specialises in the development and sale of VLF high-voltage testing systems, which are used by energy suppliers in over 120 countries worldwide. b2 has been part of the Omicron Group since 2019 and employs 86 people at its sites in Vorarlberg, Germany and the USA.
