Wooden multi-storey apartment buildings in Linnanfältti, Finland are being built with Metsä Wood's Kerto® LVL-based elements. A residential building constructed from wooden elements can rise in less than half the time compared to a similar kind of concrete building. With Metsä Wood’s Kerto LVL-based elements (laminated veneer lumber) buildings are fast, light and green to construct.
Four multi-storey wooden residential buildings in Linnanfältti are made of Kerto LVL-based wooden elements. Finnish wood element producer VVR Wood has done the structural planning and manufactured the elements at their factory in Heinola. The CEO Tero Vesanen believes that the world is at a turning point with wood construction. The use of prefabricated wooden elements has clear impacts on productivity.
”As the construction work relocates from site to factory, the quality increases in dry conditions, work gets done more efficiently and waste is minimized,” says Vesanen.
Two of these three-storey and four-storey residential buildings are ready. The third is in the interior construction phase, and the construction of the fourth building has started.
Linnanfältti is situated very close to the city centre of Turku. Some 1,500 people will have homes there. City of Turku has enabled construction actors to experiment wood construction and build a new urban area.
Metsä Wood is one of the leading European producers of engineered wood products. Metsä Wood is part of Metsä Group.
