also in the new Satavuo eco-school in Laukaa, Finland, for the first time.  In addition to HOISKO CLT solid wood walls, the materials and services for the school have been chosen to implement the greener perspective, from local food and solar paneling to low emission transportation.

The school is planned to serve hundred pupils for hundred years. By a precise planning it is possible to reach healthier and more cost-effective way to construct with cross laminated timber than with more traditional ways.

The combined school and day care center was the first larger building after the opening of the HOISKO factory in the spring 2017. Other larger buildings made of HOISKO CLT are e.g. Hukanhauta day care center in Joensuu, therapeutic apartments in Alajärvi and in Lapua, Vaasa Innovation Center and a wooden multi-storey house Konsulintorni in Kirkkonummi. HOISKO is a strong actor also in the construction fields of sports centers and housing.

Photo: Yle / Jarkko Riikonen

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HOISKO delivers altogether more than 100 structural wall components for the Laukaa school and the assembly is finished during May.

The main architect for the project is Tero Wéman from Arkkitehtipalvelu Oy.

Photos: NCC, Arkkitehtipalvelu Oy

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A part of history was written in HOISKO

as the Finnish eco-school of Laukaa chose HOISKO CLT for the building material, writes Johanna Heikkilä in Ilkka newspaper. Laukaa eco-school is the first public project for HOISKO and corresponds to the approximate material use of ten single family houses.

Laukaa eco-school is designed by architect SAFA Tero Wéman from Arkkitehtipalvelu and will hold the principals of ecology and sustainability in every possible aspect such as using local food, transportation and renewing energy. In addition, says Pekka Mikkonen from Laukaa municipality, the eco-school is reaching for status of a pedagogical forerunner. Wood as a building material was an obvious choice, and HOISKO CLT solid wood components fit perfectly to the project theme. With HOISKO CLT, it is now possible to minimize the eco-school carbon footprint. Hanna Ahopelto from HOISKO appreciates the reference project emphasizing company’s critical values of healthy, safe and responsible construction, Heikkilä writes.

Pasi Sompasaari, the NCC general foreman describes the external wall units’ thickness to be 260 mm and interior walls’ 140 mm. The building components are placed by a crane and joined using screws and bolts. The highest wall units reach up to 12 meters. An owning partner of HOISKO, a construction firm Rakennusliike M. Ranta is in charge of the erection at the building site.

The first CLT wall units are expected to be in place by the Easter in three weeks and the rest 100 units in May, Pekka Mikkonen explains the project schedule to the newspaper. The building acceptance takes place in April 2018 and after the  two months ventilation the children are welcomed.

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