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Four storeys high and made almost entirely of wood, the ZEB Lab building in Trondheim, Norway, had, even before it existed, sucked as much carbon from the atmosphere as it would probably produce in construction. Now, thanks to its arboreal origins, as well as to the sleek expanse of solar panels on its roof and to other energy efficiency measures, it is a carbon-negative building. In other words, from birth to demise, it will have drawn down more carbon than it emitted.
There are various ways to store excess carbon dioxide. ‘One way is to have it hidden in buildings,’ says Tero Hasu, a project manager at Kouvola Innovation, a municipally owned development company of the City of Kouvola in Finland. The ZEB (zero emission building) Lab achieves this by using wood for almost everything – from beams to pillars and staircases. Concrete is to be found only in the foundations and the ground floor.
The New Green Building Revolution Uses Timber to Build âPlyscrapersâ That Save Tons of CO2
Jan 11, 2021
Across the world, advancement in plywood technology is giving way to a slew of wooden skyscrapers aptly called ‘plyscrapers’.
Mjøstårnet tower in Norway: Woodify AS/Vjus AS
These innovative towers are beginning to top 200 feet, with one ambitious project in Norway reaching 280 feet, while also creating less carbon emissions, and requiring less time to build.
The secret to these plyscrapers’ survival and success comes down to a new way to create plywood, and it involves laminating boards of wood together with glue at 90-degree angles before pressing them together under the immense pressure and steam of industrial wood presses.