Cross Laminated Timber

Timber is the most natural and renewable material used in construction, using the latest technologies enables the increasing production of innovative products such as CLT.

The circular economy is the search for new models of design, production, and consumption as we seek a more sustainable model that implements greater optimisation of materials and energy. The gradual move away from the current model, forced through the depletion of natural resources, towards a model that uses renewable materials from the environment, which are also biodegradable, means natural resources are not over exploited, with embodied energy taken into account throughout the life cycle of the product.

The raw material of CLT is timber, which is a natural material of plant origin that grows in relative abundance and can be managed in a sustainable and controllable way ensuring it does not run out. During the growth phase, trees release oxygen while absorbing CO2 through photosynthesis, making forest masses an ideal store of sequestered CO2. Once a tree is harvested and processed into the lumber with which a CLT panel will be produced, this CO2 remains encapsulated within the panel itself, continuing to store C02 throughout its lifetime as a building element.

At the end of its useful life, CLT does not become a waste item of no further use, but rather can be reused for other applications, recycled into alternative wood-based products, or simply transformed into a reliable source of energy, thus closing the circle.