PRE-FABRICATED BUILDING ELEMENTS

Moving into Cederhusen

Hagastaden in Stockholm is home to Cederhusen, one of the world’s biggest wooden housing projects in an inner city setting. One of the neighbourhoods, Bologna, is built around CLT frames from Setra. Both buildings, Bologna 1 and 2, were ready for occupancy in spring 2022 and the apartments have attracted considerable interest from day one. Cederhusen is Stockholm’s first modern high-rise housing development in mass timber, with a total of 245 apartments being built in four 10–13 storey blocks. Setra’s largest structural elements were around 3 metres high and just over 12 metres long. The raw material from forests in central Sweden was processed at Setra’s sawmill in Heby and refined at the CLT factory mill in Långshyttan.

Setra has been commissioned to supply the CLT and glulam for Renshammarskolan in Bollnäs. Currently the largest construction project in Hälsingland, the school is due for completion in summer 2024. It’s important that the school is built in an environmentally sustainable way, and our choices provide a cost-effective building with rapid assembly. The premises are flexible and can be expanded, divided or reduced with relative ease. Another advantage is that wood provides a natural, warm and pleasant indoor environment.”

Ann-Katrin Samuelsson (S), first vice chair of the Childcare and Education Committee at Bollnäs municipality.

We developed the acclaimed Bonn-Olle Tower, an octagonal seven-storey wooden building in the centre of Örnsköldsvik. Choosing CLT and glulam from Setra gave us an efficient build with amazing millimetre precision. The frame consists of 48 CLT elements with a meticulously adapted, cut-out shape. The construction was a quick and fun puzzle, with six floors completed in just four days of assembly work.”

Anders Nordin, chair of Byggsigurd in Örnsköldsvik