Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Steel is expensive and hardly available. The market is so swept clean, I had never experienced that before. Reinforcing steel often came from Russia. Steel mills in Europe are not running at full capacity due to high energy prices, etc. There was once a forecast that things would recover in Q2, but that was before the coal embargo. It will still take a while until it runs normally again. In addition, Ukraine was a relatively large steel producer.

I have to revise that a bit because it’s not correct. Steel mills are currently running at full capacity because there is money to be made right now. The price per kilogram in sales is higher than I have seen in 25 years of my professional life. Of course, there are steel mills that have bad contracts with energy suppliers and had them. They are screwed now. Added to that are speculative trades on the stock exchange on alloys needed in secondary metallurgy. That, among other things, has caused problems for the Lech steel mills in Bavaria. Ukraine is not an important steel supplier in Europe; it can’t be the reason. Reinforcing steel does come in large quantities from Russia and Belarus. That is currently where the problem lies. But there are 4 large electric steel mills alone in Saxony and Brandenburg that produce reinforcing steel. And they are currently running at full capacity. The biggest problem there right now is the lack of personnel. Not everything can be explained by the war and Corona. It is probably a mixture of everything. An artificial shortage to make money can also be seen.

How many tons of steel do you need??
Does the 25k€ surcharge refer only to the steel or overall?

About 30 tons. The surcharge is only for steel.

About 30 tons. The surcharge is only for steel.

What on earth do you do with 30 tons of steel in a house? Do you have such big structural problems to solve? Are there no alternatives? Steel installed! down to smaller sizes is by the way in the calculation for the end customer about 10 euros/kg ... So yesterday our house owner...

What on earth do you do with 30 tons of steel in a house? Do you have such big structural problems to solve? Are there no alternatives? Steel installed! by the way, down to smaller sizes, is calculated for the end customer at about 10 euros per kilo ... So yesterday our house builder..

We could certainly have built differently. But we have some cantilevers and a facade that is almost completely glazed, on the ground floor with floor-to-ceiling windows. So the structural engineer definitely got headaches!

I have to revise that a bit because it is not correct. Steel plants are currently running at full capacity because it is currently profitable. The sale price per kilo is higher than I have seen in my 25 years of professional life. Certainly, there are steel plants that have had bad contracts with energy suppliers. They are now screwed. In addition, there are speculative trades on the stock exchange for alloys needed in secondary metallurgy. This has, among other things, caused problems for the Lech steel plants in Bavaria. Ukraine is not an important steel supplier in Europe, so that cannot be the reason. Reinforcing steel already comes in quantities from Russia and Belarus. That is where the current problem lies. However, there are 4 large electric steel plants in Saxony and Brandenburg alone that produce reinforcing steel. And they are currently running at full capacity. The biggest problem there is currently the lack of personnel. Not everything can be explained by the war and Corona. It is probably a mixture of everything. A deliberate shortage to make money is also evident.

Lech steel plants have not operated, Salzgitter has reduced shifts. That is only in Germany. Ukraine is not an important steel supplier for Germany but has effects on world trade. What is not allowed or cannot be produced is missing. Just look at where the stuff comes from?

We could definitely have built differently. But we have some cantilevers and a facade that is almost completely glazed, on the ground floor with floor-to-ceiling windows. So the structural engineer definitely got headaches!

But then there is also a WU reinforced concrete basement involved ???! 30 tons is quite a lot, that will be a bunker :D In a "normal" single-family house on a slab, there are max 5-8 tons of steel At a WU basement, maybe the same amount again is added