Client

• Federal Real Estate Company (BIG)

data

• Construction time: 26 months
• Handover of the state building July 2021
• Handover of Postgasse March 2022
• Opening May 2022

DELTA’s services

• Project management
• Ongoing cost comparison of the project objectives with the qualities of the historic building fabric
• Overall control of the handover dates
• Refurbishment of the listed existing building

Special features

• The “Campus Academy of the ÖAW” project now forms the centrepiece of the new campus area of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Located in Vienna’s 1st district in the old university quarter; from Dr Ignaz-Seipel-Platz along Bäckerstraße to Postgasse
• The Presidential Board of the ÖAW is located in the Dr. Ignaz-Seipel-Platz building; adaptation of the prestigious offices of the Presidential Board
• Careful refurbishment of the existing listed building with numerous state rooms
• New construction or upgrading of the electrical and building services systems for event use
• Postgasse 7-9 building: Four levels of rooms for the ÖAW were created around an inner courtyard that had been largely unused for many decades.
• The inner courtyard – surrounded by an arcade that has been opened up and made visible again – can be used by the public in future and is one of the few fully enclosed, green and contemplative courtyards in Vienna’s city centre.
• In addition to the archaeological monitoring of the excavations in the inner courtyard, many corners of the building were discovered to be in need of renovation.
• DELTA was commissioned by the Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft to manage the project and worked closely with the client’s committee.
• For both the client and the user, the general refurbishment represents an essential part of upgrading the former university quarter into a valuable and attractive location in the historic city centre.