NEWS SEPTEMBER 2007 Restoration of the Gruberscharten-Bivouac After a recon flight with a short visit for evaluating the conditionin in June 2007, the bivouac situated at 3100m on the Glockner Mountains in the Austrian Alps was finally refurbished in a 4-days workout. Mr.Kurt Schmolterer (ÖGV) started the inititive for the restoration of the 37 years old mountain-refuge, which was the first prototype of POLYBIWAK and belongs to the ÖGB, part of the Austrian Alpine Association, since then. The operations were organized and executed by Mr. Schmolterer and his crew, we helped in planning, consulting and realizing with one of our crew up in the mountains. Perfect weatherconditions made it possible to complete restoration-work and offer a shining renewed bivouac for the next visitors. The local guestbook showed a number of 60 people up there in summer 2007. DOORS ARE OPEN! Pictures >>>
	POLYBIWAK LANDMARKED Orginaltext..... Antarctic: German refuge protected as historical building The german Lillie-Marleen-refuge, set up by the BGR in 1979, is located next to the Lillie-Gletscher. It is the first German Historical building in the Antarctic. , This was decided at the 28th ATCM: Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in Stockholm. source: BGR Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe http://www.bgr.bund.de more... BGR Pressemitteilung	source: BGR
	Mobile Accomodations for extreme conditions The modular build bivouac consists of light prefabricated individual components. The consruction is fixed area-independently on a MERO three-dimensional framework. The assembly of types of different size and function takes place locally within a short time and minimizes assembly and travel costs. Polybiwaks work satisfactorily for 35 years now as research stations and accommodations in the ice deserts of the Antarctic and the mountains of the Anden, as well as safety-bivouacs in the alps. watch animation>>>
	The modular system provides any kind of assembling
	This product was developed due to its conception already described primarily for extreme areas and as the project-chronicle shows, in the last 30 years been used in such areas. In the Antarctic eight such bivouacs move around on aluminum or wood carriages at the Filchner shelf ice as scientific stations for the German Alfred-Wegener-Institute for over 25 years now. Another bivouac at the Lili Marlen glacier in the Antarctic provides a stationary accommodation for scientists. A big version was set up in the anden at 2000, 4000 and 6000m as a medical research station in the seventies. Various bivouacs in the alps fulfill their function as emergency accommodation for mountaineers since 1971. At the Ski-Worldcup in Schladming 1974 and in the following years Polybiwaks were used as TV and press cabins.