Four skyscrapers are being built in Frankfurt in a very small space

Four high-rise buildings are growing side by side in downtown Frankfurt. This only works thanks to sophisticated logistics and a technology that was previously only known in London and New York.

Et is a lot going on in the center of the construction site. Trucks come and go, as if on a secret schedule. Material is unloaded and distributed, construction machines change location. There isn’t much space between the towers, which grow by one floor every week. In the middle stands a green concrete mixer and dumps the “grey gold” into a pump container. A long, octopus-like arm transports the concrete upwards, where a floor slab of the T2 residential tower is concreted, which grows to a height of 173 meters in the shadow of the Commerzbank Tower. The typical mineral concrete smell is in the air and there is a decent buzzing noise. “For me, that’s the most beautiful sound,” says Peter Matteo. “When I hear it, I know: the construction site is going on here.”

She has to, almost day and night. Matteo, managing director of the project developer Groß & Partner, regularly checks that everything is in order here. So far everything is going according to plan. Largely, because the delivery bottlenecks for building materials do not stop at the huge construction site. “We had a big problem with the steel,” says Matteo. “Russia and Belarus have completely failed as suppliers.” But in the meantime he has found other sources. Matteo’s recipe for success: “You have to be there and talk to the boss.” There have been delays, but you can get them back elsewhere.