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The new innovative and sustainably designed diagnostics research building at the Roche Biotechnology Centre in Penzberg consists of a laboratory building and an office building connected by an atrium. The six upper floors, along with a technical floor and a basement, provide workplaces for around 1,000 employees, of which around two-thirds are laboratory workplaces.

The research complex consists of a reinforced concrete laboratory building and a timber-hybrid office building with timber columns and timber-concrete composite floors. Both components were designed as skeleton constructions with reinforced concrete bracing cores to ensure the most excellent possible flexibility. The jointless basement box is watertight. The foundation is on an elastically bedded floor slab. The atrium is complemented by a steel structure with stairs, bridges, and a steel shed roof.