Western Australia could soon become home to the world’s tallest wooden building, with Perth authorities planning to build a 191.2-metre tower built using timber, cnn.com reports.
Grange Development’s proposal for a skyscraper, currently called the C6 Building, which would be almost twice the height of the current world record holder for a wooden structure, was approved on Thursday.
The developers claim that 42% of the tower will be constructed of timber, while its columns and core will be made of reinforced concrete.
If the high-rise is completed, it will surpass the world’s tallest wood-concrete hybrid building, the Ascent Tower in the United States, which is 25 stories or 86 meters high.
According to Grange Development, the 50-storey tower will have more than 200 apartments and will be Western Australia’s first carbon-neutral residential building.
James Dibble, director of Grange Development, said in a press release: “In building C6, we aim to focus on a more climate-friendly approach to building.”
The tower will use 7,400 cubic meters of timber obtained from 600 trees.
“We can’t grow concrete,” Dibble said in a proposal submitted to Perth authorities, calling the plan “a new project that uses hybrid construction methodologies to offset carbon emissions from our built environment, the single largest contributor to climate change.”
“This is our chance to say that we really care about both the housing crisis that is looming over us and the climate crisis that we are doing very little about as an industry,” he added.
Along with the use of timber, the plan also includes green elements such as a rooftop garden, an urban farm and residents’ access to 80 new all-electric Tesla Model 3s.
2023-10-06 19:31:20
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