ALC Award: Salzburg invests in the expansion of the cultural sites
This evening The most prestigious business award is given to the most successful Salzburg companies. Time to take a look at Salzburg as a business location.
These days, the Salzburg Festival gave the go-ahead for the general renovation and expansion of the aging festival halls. With projected costs of 262 million euros, this project, which has been laid out for several years, is the largest of the chunks listed in the General Plan for Economic Buildings of the State of Salzburg. In addition to the renovation of the festival halls, there is also additional exhibition space in the New Residence, the construction of a visitor center in the cathedral quarter with a passage to the cathedral excavation museum, a new building for the Mozarteum University, a “Sound of Music” museum in Hellbrunn, the renovation of the south oratory of the cathedral or a new visitor center is planned for the Salzburg open-air museum in Großgmain.
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“The cultural industry is one of our strengths,” says Governor Wilfried Haslauer. The Salzburg state government also sees the massive investment in these strengths as an economic stimulus package. The plan lists a total of 22 projects in which more than 500 million euros will be invested by 2030. The money for this comes from the state as well as from the federal government, the city of Salzburg or the community equalization fund. “The city and state of Salzburg are of particular importance in the artistic and cultural field. In order to maintain and expand this position of Salzburg, the State of Salzburg, together with other partners, especially the City of Salzburg
In order to implement the renovation of the festival halls, the festival fund, as the client of this day, started a European general planner competition. The plan is to renew the building services in the Great Festival Hall, among other things. The fire protection must be brought up to date and the roof renovated. Many things that visitors do not see, but which secure the operation of the festival halls for the future. A new building – will be located behind the existing building – should rearrange the organizing processes in the workshops, rehearsal rooms or artists’ dressing rooms and urgently create additional space. In addition, a new delivery tunnel WILL be built through the Mönchsberg and thus relieve the Hofstallgasse. If everything goes according to plan, this project should be completed by 2030.
Another major project from the cultural buildings package, which was recently launched, is a new building for the Mozarteum University. In the Kurpark – adjacent to the Mirabell Gardens – not only rehearsal rooms and offices for the studio for electronic music, but also the multimedia and digitization laboratory X-Reality-Lab will be built at the place where the Kurhaus used to be. It sees itself as an artistic workshop and research space for audiovisual design. In addition to the rooms for the university, the new building will also offer a new home for the Salzburg Bach Choir. Construction is to begin next spring, and the opening is planned for autumn 2024. The construction costs are estimated at 20 million euros, the majority coming from the federal government.
About the competition
ALC has two categories and three awards
The ALC winners are chosen in two categories: The first category includes nationally active companies – with business activities in Austria. Two awards are given here: firstly, those small companies with an annual turnover of less than ten million euros, but a minimum turnover of one million euros is required to make it into the rating. The second award goes to large companies with an annual turnover of ten million euros or more.
In the second ALC category are the internationally active companies, defined by the fact that these companies have a relevant international, an international business model and an international customer structure in all operational units, a proportion of foreign branches and a proportion of foreign branches.
ALC rating: objective and number-based
In the ALC competition, an evaluation model has been used from the very beginning, which is objective and comprehensible and also enables it in its cross-industry orientation. The basis is the company figures over a period of three years. Twelve criteria are analyzed from the most recent three annual financial statements. The KPIs are evaluated separately and weighted in the evaluation model. The points scored from all columns of numbers are added together. The winner is whoever has the lowest total number of points. The KSV rating is also taken into account. Bonus points can be achieved through the voluntary TÜV Austria check.
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(“Die Presse”, print edition, 11/10/2021)