Holzbau Wegscheider Innovative Bau GmbH

Holzbau Wegscheider Innovative Bau GmbH is an Austrian construction company based in Tyrol that has specialised in the combination of natural timber and pure clay since its foundation in 1992. Operating under the brand Holz-Lehmbau Wegscheider, the firm offers consulting, planning, structural engineering, prefabrication and on-site assembly from a single source. Its portfolio covers new builds as well as conversions, extensions, fit-outs and renovations, with a strong emphasis on healthy, ecological living. The company's core proposition is the pairing of untreated wood with clay in effective mass. According to its own materials, clay complements natural timber with properties that are otherwise missing in timber construction: insulation efficiency against cold, heat and sound; regulation of air and surface humidity; and resistance to pests and fire. Wegscheider describes this approach as reviving a building tradition proven over millennia, and notes that when it started in the early 1990s the method still attracted surprise, whereas today its effectiveness is scientifically studied and demonstrated by numerous projects. The firm is led by Holzbaumeister Hans Wegscheider in the management, alongside Hannes Danler, with Valentin Eibisberger in commercial management and Adolf Kirchler and Thomas Schiffmann in site management. The team includes carpenters, clay plasterers and apprentices, reflecting a craft-based operation. The company positions itself as a provider of consistently natural living solutions, from consultation through to completed building, and markets its work under the promise of comfort in harmony with nature.

Holzbau Wegscheider Innovative Bau GmbH traces its origins to the early 1990s, when it began reviving the combined use of natural timber and pure clay in effective mass. According to the company's own account, this approach still caused surprise at the time, but has since become scientifically studied and proven through numerous projects. The firm has offered consulting, planning, structural engineering, prefabrication and assembly from a single source since 1992, serving new builds as well as conversions, extensions, fit-outs and renovations. Over the decades the company has built its identity around the Holz-Lehmbau (timber-clay construction) method, presenting wood and clay as the 'perfect pair' of natural materials. It describes clay as adding insulation efficiency against cold, heat and sound, humidity regulation of air and surfaces, and resistance to pests and fire — properties it says are otherwise missing in timber construction. The company also emphasises that the positive properties of wood are preserved only when it is used entirely without sealing substances. By the 2020s the firm operates as a craft-based Tyrolean business with a team of carpenters, clay plasterers and apprentices, led by Holzbaumeister Hans Wegscheider and Hannes Danler in management, with Valentin Eibisberger in commercial management and Adolf Kirchler and Thomas Schiffmann in site management. Its stated mission remains to provide consistently natural living solutions for clients seeking healthy, nature-oriented homes.

• 1992

  Company begins offering consulting, planning, structural engineering, prefabrication and assembly from a single source.

• 1990

  Early 1990s: start of reviving timber-clay construction, which still caused surprise at the time.

Provider of consistently natural, healthy and ecological living solutions through the combination of untreated timber and pure clay in effective mass.

• Timber-clay new builds

  New residential and other buildings using the Holz-Lehmbau system.

• Timber-clay conversions and extensions

  Conversion and extension projects combining timber and clay.

• Timber-clay fit-outs

  Interior fit-out works using natural timber and clay.

• Timber-clay renovations

  Renovation of existing buildings with timber-clay methods.

• Clay plastering

  Clay plaster work carried out by in-house clay plasterers.

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