are austrian architects better than US architects?

are they just naturally better at designing schools?

or does their culture and procurement process value quality and design?

https://www.klomfar.com/go-to-archive/detail/secondary-school-egg.html

are austrian architects able to design mass timber passivhaus schools because they are far more educated and talented v. US architects, or because their procurement processes and
energy codes require and/or incentivize them?
https://www.klomfar.com/go-to-archive/detail/fachhochschule-salzburg.html

are austrian builders just more advanced & intelligent than US ones, offering services like DfM, & prefabricated, prefinished passivhaus wall panels?

or do AT procurement/contracting & energy codes incentivize more durable, higher quality construction? https://www.dietrich.untertrifaller.com/en/projects/volksschule-edlach-dornbirn-at/?filter=373&parent=369

wait a second - this passivhaus school only cost $4 million?!?

ok. maybe they are better architects http://www.constructivealps.net/kindergarten-und-volksschule-brand/

wow looks like that cost is correct. you imagine a single school in the US being built to passivhaus, at that quality, for $4M?

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