KLIMAHAUS had everything a successor or buyer looks for: a strong reputation, loyal clients and reference projects that speak for themselves. Its digital presence told none of that story. With a handover on the horizon, an outdated website was more than a cosmetic issue, it signalled investment backlog to exactly the people whose first impression shapes the negotiation. Our challenge was to make thirty years of expertise visible, and the firm’s value tangible, before anyone else drew their own conclusions.
We started where the value lives: in the work and the people. Conversations with the team, the project archive and the firm’s history showed us what KLIMAHAUS stands for: technical depth, responsibility and long-term thinking. That became the foundation for a renewed logo and corporate design system that honours the firm’s heritage while clearly looking ahead, captured in a new line: “Intelligent geplant. Nachhaltig gedacht.”
From there we rebuilt the website from structure to final sentence. A project archive puts the reference work front and centre, a careers page speaks to the next generation of engineers, and a sustainability focus connects the firm’s expertise in geothermal and efficient building technology to what clients need today. The German copy is clear and confident, real technical substance that non-engineers can follow, too.
The result is a brand and website that present KLIMAHAUS as what it is: an established, forward-looking engineering firm with a clear identity. Clients see the expertise, candidates see a place to build a career, and potential successors or buyers see a business that is well positioned, well documented and ready for its next chapter.
Everything was delivered for a clean handover — files, access and documentation, with no lock-in. In six weeks from brief to go-live, a website that had stood still for twenty years became an asset that supports the firm’s value in every conversation about the future.
The project in numbers:
Years of company history
Years without a website update
From brief to go-live
Year founded
Olaf Haarsma
