Wood products company Setra will be supplying the timber frames for the second building in the Cederhusen housing development in Hagastaden, Stockholm, Sweden. The frames will be manufactured and packaged in Setra’s crosslam factory and transported to the construction site.
Cederhusen, a Folkhem project with Veidekke Entreprenad AB as the sole contractor, will be Sweden’s largest residential development built in mass timber. The partnership with Setra began last autumn with deliveries for the first apartment block, Bologna 1. Construction has been under way since September and now the frame for the first of four buildings in the new neighbourhood has been completed. Setra’s deliveries for building two are set to begin in March and last for around 10 weeks.
All the components for the apartment block’s structural frame are being fabricated in glulam and cross-laminated timber at Setra’s factory in Långshyttan, Sweden.
“We are incredibly pleased to have again been entrusted with supplying timber frames, this time for building number two in the Cederhusen project. This is a groundbreaking project with an explicit sustainability focus – a great fit for us, as we work exclusively with wood, the renewable construction material. It is also amazing to see how much interest Cederhusen as generated in the industry and among homebuyers,” comments Daniel Halvarsson, Setra’s EVP Building solutions and Components.
Cederhusen is being built by Folkhem above the tunnels for the E4/E20 motorway, thus connecting Stockholm and Solna. The project, Stockholm’s first inner city neighbourhood in wood, comprises four apartment blocks of 10–13 storeys, with crosslam walls, shafts and floors making up the structural frame.
Setra is one of Sweden’s largest wood products companies and a leading player in Europe.
