ially social housing.||CLT walls, floor slabs; timber stair and lift cores. Each apartment has its own internal balcony.|
|Timber assembled using four carpenters in 12 weeksone floor each 3 days, total build took only 49 weeks.|
|The potential for creep shortening due to compression under load is negligible for the walls and 0.6 millimetres (0.02 inches) for the floors.|
|3. Svartlamoen apartment building, Trondheim, Norway, 2004–05||5 storeys in CLT, measures 6 × 22 m in plan||2 buildings with an area of 1080 sqm. Four floors contain units of 120 sqm||2.16||Brendeland & Kristoffersen Architects, Trondheim||Also contains commercial rooms in ground floor.|
|Clad with Norwegian larch. Untreated timber surfaces of the load-bearing elements are exposed on the inside.|
|Four workers managed to erect the main structure in just ten working days. Public housing, apartments mainly occupied by students.|
|4. Am Muehlweg housing project, 1210 Vienna- Floridsdorf, Austria (new district built in CLT, various architects), 2005–06||3 and 4 storeys in CLT on a concrete basement||70 apartments in several CLT buildings, 200 residents, total approx. 7000 sqm||11||Hubert Riess, Dietrich Untertrifalle, and Hermann & Johannes Kaufmann, Schwarzach, Vorarlberg, Austria||Three interconnecting sites|
|optimum exploitation of ecological and economic benefits of timber and mixed constructions|
|terraced houses and an L-shaped building surround an internal courtyard, offering a free area for communal use|
|low energy standard according to BBS–performs at 30 kW/sqm/pa (Passiv Haus Standard), ‘Timber Passive Houses’.|
|5.Wagramer- strasse, corner Eipeldauer Strasse, Vienna, Austria, 2012–||6-storey main building and three 3-storey fingers, in CLT panels, on top of 1 storey concrete base||101 units (public housing), constructed in only 10 weeks||14||Michael Schluder with Hagmueller Architekten, Vienna||The result of a design competition, the City of Vienna is driving its ‘Wood in the City’ program ahead with high quality public housing. This initiative has a focus on 3 to 8 storey timber construction for inner-city locations.|
|5.Wagramer- strasse, corner Eipeldauer Strasse, Vienna, Austria, 2012–13||Austria’s highest timber apartment building, with 7 storeys (6 in CLT, on top of a concrete storey); a hybrid construction with staircases in concrete. In total 2400 m3 (19,500 sqm) of CLT panels, manufactured by Binderholz, were used; these panels have stored approx. 2400 tons of CO2.|
|6. ‘e3’ apartment building, 3 Esmarchstrasse, Berlin Prenzlauer Berg, Germany, 2008 (completed April 2008)||7–storey urban infill (height 23 m)||7 apartments (one large apartment per floor)||€2.5 (around €2,100/sqm)||Kaden & Klingbeil Architekten, Berlin||German building regulations changed in 2002, allowing timber construction (a hybrid structure, using CLT and glue-lam) up to 5 storeys.|
|This 7-storey, apartment infill building has been developed in collaboration with the Berlin Fire Department; the concrete escape staircase is separated from the main building. 40% less weight compared to concrete; performs at 27 kWh/sqm/a. CO2 neutral building.|
|7. Holzhausen apartment building, Steinhausen, CH, 2006||6 storeys– 4 storeys in CLT panel, on concrete base||12 units (2 apartments per floor) 150 and 166 sqm in size.||4||Scheitlin, Syfrig & Partner Architekten, Luzern||Switzerland’s first six-storey timber building;|
|fire protection standard in Switzerland, introduced in January 2005, 60-minute fire-resistance capability.|
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|8. ‘Forté’, 807 Bourke Street, Victoria Harbour, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2012||10-storey residential tower (32.17 m high), 9 storeys of CLT on a concrete podium||23 apartments and retail in ground floor, fully sprinklere; no car parking space.||AUS$11||Lend Lease (Australia), in-house design||Australia’s first CLT timber high-rise building. CLT panels manufactured and imported to Melbourne from KLH, Austria. Site work commenced in February and completed in October 2012. Forté incl