A better way of building

Welcome to the new headquarters for our OneFortyOne NZ Forests team in Hope, Tasman.

As a forestry business we wanted to show how timber can be used to achieve a cost-effective carbon neutral build. We have taken all the components that we’d normally make from concrete and steel and have tried to find a timber alternate – with the aim that we sequester more carbon than we are releasing.

The sheer volume of timber in this building is a real statement around who we are and what we stand for as a company and as an industry. We would like to thank Irving Smith Architects, Scott Construction New Zealand and Network Tasman Limited for creating something really special for our team.

Some of the design highlights include:

• Glulam posts, the equivalent of concrete in our design thinking.
• LVL rafters, we use those like steel.
• The timber floor is the largest our builders have ever built, and with the use of screw piles we were able to cut down construction time by almost a third.

Enjoy the video, and remember as our architect Andrew Irving likes to say, no one hugs a steel beam.