Architecture Växjö

Highlights:

• Visit to a CLT production facility, a cooperative, owned by the forest owners.

• Guided tour in the largest largest social housing complex in Wood/CLT in Sweden, 200 apartments. 

• Visit together with Gert Wiingårdh Architects in one of their newest wooden housing complexes.

• Visit to a construction site: You will learn about the efficient construction proces and building tecniques. 

• Presentation at the Department of Forest and Technology at Linnaeus University on the economic and environmental savings of building in wood / CLT. Learn why and how the load-bearing structures and walls in CLT are crucial, when it comes to reducing CO2 emission.

• Visit to a local design studio specialised in wooden housing. Presentation on challenges, when working with wood/CLT, for example in relation to suppliers and partners (versus building in steel, concrete, brick, etc.).

• The most important data on the user perspectives: What are the benefits of living in a wooden house? How does wood/CLT affect the employees at the construction site, on a practical level and mentally?

• How do you make a political vision about building in wood possible? Presentation by Växjö Kommunforetag AB.