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Project in Trier. Photo: © Sascha Kletzsch
Project in Trier. Photo: © Sascha Kletzsch
Living space for students in Heidelberg. Photo: © Sascha Kletzsch
Sustainable and responsible building That is what the Munich-based company LiWooD stands for through realising sustainable construction projects with high-quality demands. Yet the economical thought is not left out: the knowledge that sustainable building needs to correlate with a competitive cost structure solely allows timber to be the building material for LiWooD’s projects. TEXT: LIWOOD MANAGEMENT AG; TRANSLATION: NANE STEINHOFF
Building with timber is efficient and sustainable and LiWooD succeeds in uniting these two characteristics in its approach. While materials like concrete, aluminium and brick – used in conventional building – cause a high degree of CO2 emissions, solid wood can largely bind these. That is why LiWooD decided to manufacture modules out of this natural building material. Furthermore, with a high degree of pre-fabrication, extremely short construction periods enable projects and project developments to be quickly realised; extremely low energy costs over the life106 | Issue 45 | December 2016
time of the building honour this approach. Through the LiWooD construction technique, the building owner can save up to 60 per cent in comparison to conventional building. This saving, of course, depends on the project size; the larger the project, the more the savings. This fact cannot be rejected: no other building material than wood has such a strong, positive effect on our well-being. Even touching wood is experienced more positively than touching other building materials. Thus, when one enters a
LiWooD building, these qualities quickly become obvious. Sustainable building can only be implemented through using wood as building material. LiWooD rigorously implements this knowledge and thus, helps to implement the need for more sustainability into reality in a variety of ways. Through its modular philosophy and a perfectly coordinated logistics concept, LiWooD’s construction method enables significantly reduced construction time and therefore creates living space in a short period. It should be particularly emphasised that the conventional impairments that can be found on a building site, such as noise and pollution, are significantly reduced in a qualitative and temporal sense. The logistics concept is coined by construction, plant and execution plants that