Hotel Sempachersee, Nottwil

It had to be Switzer­land’s busiest el­ev­at­or! It con­nec­ted the kit­chen and wash­ing sta­tion (on the first floor) with the stor­e­rooms (base­ment level) and res­taur­ant (second floor). Not what you'd call ef­fi­cient. That’s why the first thing we did was to shorten the routes and move the kit­chen to the second floor. We cal­cu­lated the renov­a­tion and space re­quire­ments in ad­vance. The sale of the old in­vent­ory added an ad­di­tion­al CHF 45,000 to the con­struc­tion budget. Trucks from all over the world picked up el­ev­at­ors, fire­places and kit­chen parts to be re­pur­posed else­where. The re­fur­bish­ment of the main build­ing and the room up­grades were fin­anced des­pite a tight budget and the pro­ject was com­pleted with ac­tu­al costs 10% below budget. We can man­age a strong per­form­ance even with lim­ited re­sources.