‘It shapes the whole experience’: what happens when you build a city from wood?

It’s clean and quiet,” said Niklas Häggström, the project area manager at Atrium Ljungberg, and responsible for the realisation of the entire Wood City project, when we walk around the site. It is an enormous project, but with timber Atrium Ljungberg can build 1,000 sq metres a week. “It shapes the whole city experience: from the facade materials to the greenery, to how people interact with their environment. Another study found that wooden buildings continue to be climate friendly – a four-storey wooden building results in a net uptake of 150 tonnes of carbon dioxide. The fact that 70% of the country is covered in woodland has supported a long tradition of building in wood.