Luge track, Oberhof

The approximately 1,350-metre-long luge track at the Thuringian Winter Sports Centre in Oberhof has been refurbished as part of extensive modernisation and renovation works.

ZÜBLIN Timber was responsible for the workshop planning, the fabrication and a large part of the installation of the timber roof over the artificial ice track.

The track overcomes a height difference of just under 100 metres, has an average gradient of 9.2 per cent and features a total of 15 bends. The timber roof structure was installed in the sections of the track between bends 6 and 7 and between bends 11 and 15. Thanks to its largely self-supporting design, the roof structure requires comparatively few supports.

The roof structure, covering around 4,500 square metres, consists of just under 300 glued, curved plywood shells, each with an area of up to 18 square metres. These individually shaped free-form shells characterise the architectural design of the roof. On the inside, the roof structure was constructed using timber batten formwork. In addition, ZÜBLIN Timber clad around 300 square metres of the existing roof with a timber ceiling. Furthermore, LENO^®cross-laminated timber panels were installed on the steel structure over an area of 739 square metres.

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