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Sweden has started to use its natural forests for prefabricating\u00a0timber buildings of all types and sizes. One of the companies leading the cause is\u00a0Swedish developer Folkhem, who already started\u00a0illustrating the environmental advantages of wood construction.<\/em><\/p>\n

As reported by Daily Commercial News,\u00a0Folkhem's Strandparken, a 34-unit twin eight-storey housing complex just outside Stockholm, was built with cross-laminated timber (CLT) in seven months, largely because 80 per cent of the development was prefabricated \u2014 right down to the insulated walls and windows.<\/p>\n

Sandra Frank,\u00a0the company's marketing director, told delegates during a panel seminar recently at the Toronto Wood Solutions Fair, that the Swedish forests needs only\u00a0about one minute to produce the wood (120 cubic metres) required to the build Strandparken.<\/p>\n

To sustain Sweden's forests, government regulations stipulate that three trees be planted for every tree cut down, according to H.E. Per Sjogren, the Swedish Ambassador to Canada.\u00a0Sjogren told the seminar that forestry products have a wide range of usage in Sweden, and \"it is an important research area between Sweden and Canada in our universities<\/em>.\"<\/p>\n

\"Today, we no longer have any height restrictions on wooden buildings<\/em>,\" he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the other hand,\u00a0Mike Collins-Williams, a policy director with the Ontario Home Builders' Association (OHBA), said at the seminar, held at the Toronto Metro Convention Centre, that \"the missing middle (mid-rise housing) that Sweden does so well we are just starting to figure out in Ontario and Toronto<\/em>.\"<\/p>\n

He said residents in fast-growing Canadian cities need a \"greater diversity<\/em>\" of housing options.<\/p>\n

\"Many consumers currently see the choice as either a shoebox in the sky (condo tower)...or a single family home<\/em>,\" he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While the Greater Toronto Area is investing about $30 billion in transit in the region, Collins-Williams said there is \"a disconnect\" between municipal land-use authorities and provincial transit agencies that prevents opportunities for wood mid-rise developments, Daily Commercial News reported.<\/p>\n

Both these developments have to face similar hurdles and periods to get approval so it is no surprise developers often propose the more profitable option, highrise housing, Collins-Williams stated, adding that planners need to \"up-zone\" most areas in Toronto \u2014 particularly along transit corridors \u2014 to smooth the path to urban intensification.<\/p>\n

A tool called the community planning permit system that combines the site plan approval, building permit and zoning \u2014 \"a one-stop shop\" that expedites the development process, is available to Ontario municipalities but most have not taken advantage of it, Collins-Williams told delegates.<\/p>\n

Fellow panellist Tad Putyra, president and COO of Great Gulf Low Rise, said his takeaway from visits to wood manufacturing plants in Sweden and Germany is that new levels of automation are on the rise that incorporate robotics equipment that not long ago was the reserve of auto-making plants.<\/p>\n

Among the most advanced factories in the world is one in northern Sweden that delivers modules for wood mid-rises to Stockholm and other cities in the nation.<\/p>\n

Steven Street, technical director at Ontario Wood Works, said in the past eight to nine years the industry has \"dramatically changed\" its views of factory-built wood panels.\u00a0The benefits of prefabrication are obvious, he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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