We have purchased an old holiday cottage, where there is a solid basement built on a rock below. Currently, there is a wooden beam ceiling on this basement, and a house in timber frame construction has been built on top of it. This will now be demolished, and the basement gutted. We would now pour a concrete ring around it, then renew the basement ceiling, then build up one floor, then the intermediate ceiling, and build up again, then a shed roof with [Aufsparrendämmung]. That is the plan. Why no [HBD] on an old basement? Because practically only the load-bearing elements would remain…..