The City of Vienna has assigned the construction of a new building for a vocational school in Seestadt Aspern, a district in Vienna, Austria, to a consortium comprising Austrian construction company PORR and facility management services provider Apleona.
The project, deemed the largest public-private partnership building construction project in the country, will cater to 7,500 pupils and 350 employees upon completion.
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Spanning a total usable floor space of 29,000m², the educational facility will feature a main building and a workshop building connected by a glass bridge and an underground corridor.
The project is scheduled for completion in approximately 32 months, with operations set to begin in September 2028.
PORR CEO Karl-Heinz Strauss said: “This project will create jobs for up to 400 people during the construction phase. A building of this size also requires enormous quantities of material, including 38,000m³ of in-situ concrete and 5,800 tonnes of reinforcing steel. The processes required to manage such a project efficiently are extremely complex and call for our entire range of expertise”.
PORR and Apleona are employing sustainable and energy-efficient methods in the construction of the vocational school.
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By GlobalDataThe timber-hybrid structure includes renewable energy systems such as geothermal heating with around 140 probes and photovoltaic panels.
The consortium is also implementing LEAN Construction to optimise resource usage and reduce waste. TQB certification is planned in line with the standards set by the Austrian Sustainable Building Council.
The design of the school was crafted by architect Kronaus Mitterer Architekten, with PORR subsidiary pde Integrale Planung providing implementation planning expertise.
The use of building information modelling has enabled the creation of an accurate as-built model of the facility, stated PORR.
PORR Beteiligungen und Management and Quaero Capital are the equity investors for this venture.
The debt financing, structured by Eight Advisory, includes contributions from the European Investment Bank, DZ BANK AG, and, for the first time in an Austrian education project, five insurance companies led by Ampega Asset Management.
Upon completion, Apleona Austria will manage the facility’s operations for the next 25 years.
The City of Vienna, as the end-user, will pay an availability fee during this period to cover both the initial investment and the ongoing operations. The total investment for the project is estimated at around €200m ($226.5m).
In July 2024, PORR secured a contract from the General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways for a section upgrade of the S16 expressway in Poland.
Additionally, a consortium comprising PORR and STRABAG is handling the reconstruction of the Luegbrücke bridge on the Brenner motorway in Tyrol, Austria.
