WTA joins Build-in-Wood in Copenhagen!
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The WTA team with Build-in-Wood in Copenhagen this week!
We’d like to thank everyone in this incredible consortium of experts that have helped bring this project to fruition. This week, we're celebrating the release of the Build-in-Wood Guides, which are the culmination of 4 years of work for the EU Horizon Fund, led by the Danish Technological Institute.
Build-in-Wood is an optimised timber building system designed for maximum adaptability. The system can be tailored to meet a variety of drastically different building requirements, without the inherent redundancy that can often result from a system designed for multiple scenarios. Incorporating a structural frame and a non- structural façade, the system has been designed for use holistically as well as independently to encourage reuse, retrofitting and extensions of existing building stock.Designed as a kit of variable components, the system can be tailored to achieve the range of performance criteria typically required for residential or commercial buildings of between five and ten stories across Europe.
The Copenhagen demonstrator, which began on site earlier this year, is a live testing ground on which the consortium can test the conditions of timber in-situ. Functioning as a living laboratory, the site takes readings of indoor climate, insulation efficiency and moisture resistance that are then fed into a digital twin, giving live feedback of invaluable data.
Wood and bio-based materials are poised to play a pivotal role in the construction industry's sustainable evolution. Despite the challenges that lie ahead, the Build-in-Wood Demonstrator is a step towards addressing and overcoming these hurdles. With its capacity for easy disassembly and reconfiguration, the building is not just a structure but a dynamic research tool that will provide insights into new solutions and practices. The ambition of this project is to enable optimized and cost-effective wood construction methods to become common practice.
You can read the guides in their entirety here.