Currently, the biggest timber building, also according to the Guinness World Records, is located in Norway and called Mjøstårnet. It has an architectural height of 85.4m and consists of 18 floors with a total area of 11,300 m². The building is a mixed-use property with offices, apartments, hotels, a restaurant and a swimming hall.
Mjøstårnet has been completed in March 2019 and was designed by the Norwegian architecture studio “Voll Arkitekter”. For most of the structure, Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) and Glue Laminated Timber (GLT) have been used. Only the floor slabs from the 12th floor and above are made from concrete.
The building has shown what can be achieved with timber construction and gives an outlook into the future of sustainable real estate.