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Rail and boat The public transport links will also be commencing operations on 28 August 2017. The Lucerne – Kehrsiten-Bürgenstock shuttle boat service and the completely rebuilt vintage- look Bürgenstock Railway, which takes guests and visitors into the heart of the resort, will be providing a direct and highly entertaining link between the city and the resort; it will be operating to a 1.5 hourly daily timetable between the early morning and midnight. A brand- new shuttle boat will come into service in spring 2018 to coincide with the Bürgenstock Resort’s Grand Opening, resulting in an hourly timetable between the resort and Lucerne. Once that happens, journey times between Lucerne railway station and the Bürgenstock Resort will be cut to around 30 minutes. Details of the timetable and prices may be obtained from the Lake Lucerne Navigation Company SGV (www.lakelucerne.ch ) and the Bürgenstock Resort (www.buergenstock.ch). The round trip with boat and railway in standard class will be CHF 42.20 for an adult with a Half-Fare travelcard/SwissPass, or CHF 25.00 with a GA travelcard/SwissPass. Guests staying at the resort travel free, i.e. they will benefit from unrestricted travel on the Bürgenstock Railway and the shuttle boat. Attendees of events and resort staff will be able to take advantage of heavily discounted fares. In addition, five discounted packages will be available for the boat and railway. A convenient land route involving a bus ride from Stansstad railway station to the new Bürgenstock Resort will also be available. The resort will be served with four different bus stops. The cantonal road between Stansstad and the resort has been specially extended and widened in recent months. Car drivers should note that parking provision at the resort is limited: although it offers 700 indoor and outdoor parking spaces, the wide-ranging resort itself is car-free. Sustainability and value creation With its environmentally friendly approaches to energy generation, construction and logistics, the resort's sustainability concept represents a landmark in ecological thinking. The planners and developers of the new resort took a leaf out of the book of its original pioneers, Franz Josef Bucher and Josef Durrer: in as early as 1888, the two innovators had obtained a concession to extract potable water from the lake. The same approach is now being adopted to derive energy from the lake. Eighty percent of the new resort's thermal needs and 100 percent of its cooling needs are circulated via a network of highly insulated pipes issuing from an energy distribution centre. The heating and cooling provided by the energy distribution centre, which is already in use, is almost CO2-neutral. As for the resort's construction and concrete needs, the developers sourced raw material in the form of stone and aggregate from the Bürgenberg itself. Where possible, use was made of gabions (cages filled with rocks) instead of concrete walls; they provide valuable habitat for flora and fauna. With regard to forest management, the entire resort has been planted with mixed woodland. In terms of the project's logistics, truck movements were reduced by through the reuse of excavation material: 165,000 m3 of reused material meant 18,400 fewer truck journeys up and down the mountain – equivalent to nine circumnavigations of the planet by one truck. 6363 Obbürgen Switzerland T+41 (0)41 612 90 10 F+41 (0)41 612 99 01 info@buergenstock.ch www.buergenstock.chPDF Image | Bürgenstock Resort opening on 28 August 2017
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