Timber construction

High-performance building materials, competitive processes and a high degree of freedom in design ensure that wood will play a role as a building material of the future.

Important drivers for this are digitalization and the availability of improved materials. In particular, the following strategic goals are in the foreground:

• Wood has an outstanding image in terms of quality, sustainability, emotion and economy. Design, trendsetting and function enable wood

  a pioneering role.

• Timber construction supports and promotes creative freedom for architects

  and engineers and enables economic implementation for building owners

  and institutional investors.

• Switzerland is the world's technology leader for timber construction.

• Timber construction products manufactured in Switzerland and timber construction know-how are

  in demand worldwide.

• High-performance and marketable products made of hardwood are established in timber construction.

  Highly resilient supporting structures and filigree cross-sections are possible.

• High training and continuing education standards ensure the availability of excellent skilled workers.

• Timber construction and wood-based building materials are an essential part of the training and continuing education of architects and civil engineers.

• In the booming sector of multi-storey buildings, wood achieves a

  Market share of 20% (renovation, densification, extension).

• Digitalisation and construction processes complement each other symbiotically in timber construction and are a

  inseparable connection. Timber construction plays a pioneering role in the entire

  construction process.

• Research and development supports the development of high-performance building materials.

• Prefabrication and standardized solutions in production and processes

  also position timber construction as the most economical construction method.

• Customers appreciate the high living and working comfort with the natural

  building material wood.

• Switzerland maintains its liberal building regulations, in which the legal framework allows wood to be given equal status in the construction industry.