Swedish Wood
  • Trä magazine
Search website.
Go to navigation Go to main content

Navigation

  • Wood facts
  • Building with wood
  • Inspiration
  • Sustainability
  • Publications
  • About us
  • Trä magazine

Trä magazine

-

Issue 3, 2012

  • ;

A modern visitor centre using old techniques by Lake Tåkern.

Stories

Naturum Tåkern in Tåkern, Sweden by av Wingårdhs

Photo: Jussi Tiainen
Stories

Heavenly contrasts in finnish wooden church

Kuokkala in Jyväskylä, Finland by Lassila Hirvilammi Arkkitehdit

Photo: Brett Boardman
Stories

Timber & nanotechnology

EMC in Wollongong, Australia by SKM-S2F

The magazine

  • Read number 3, 2012 in pdf
  • Subscribe for free
  • Previous issues of Trä
Editorial

Time to raise the bar for building in wood

Mikael Eliasson Director, Swedish Wood

Trä meets

»Architectural, eco-friendly and good value housing.«

Hans Murman Murman Architects

  • Wood facts
    • About wood
      • Wood and sustainability
      • Wood as a material
      • Wood and moisture
      • Regarding use of blue- stained wood
      • Wood protection
      • Wood grades
    • Research into wood and moisture
      • Research
      • Research results
    • Swedish Wood Learning Portal
  • Building with wood
    • Construction
      • Why wood?
      • Wood and wood-based products
      • Building with wood
      • Handling and storage
      • Surface treatment
      • Fasteners
      • Building regulations
      • Wood quantities
      • The future is growing on trees
      • A variety of wooden structures
    • Factory-painted and quality-assured external cladding
    • About glulam
      • Glulam and the environment
      • Climate calculator for halls
      • Manufacturers & manufacture
      • Choosing glulam
  • Inspiration
    • Architecture
    • Interior architecture
    • Swedish Wood Award
      • Swedish Wood Award 50 years
  • Sustainability
    • Forest
      • Forest through the ages
      • Biodiversity and our responsibility
      • The forest’s contribution to tackling climate change
      • Products and use of resources
    • Agenda 2030
    • Climate benefit
      • Architecture and building in wood
      • Wood furniture
      • Wood packaging
      • LCA & EPD
      • Digitalisation of wood products
      • Ecocycle for wood products
    • Partnership
  • Publications
    • Trä magazine
      • Previous issues of Trä!
      • Advertise
      • Articles Trä magazine
    • List of Swedish Wood´s publications
      • Architecture in wood
      • Commercial Grading of Timber
      • Design of timber structures
      • Guide to assessing CLT surface quality
      • Joinery Handbook
      • Moisture-proof CLT construction without a full temporary shelter
      • Guide to CLT in the early stages
      • Handling wood correctly
      • The CLT Handbook
      • The Glulam Handbook volume 1-4
      • Ten Points for Timber on Top
  • About us
    • Our members
      • Swedish glulam industry
      • Timber wholesalers
    • What Swedish Wood does
      • Podcast
      • Projects
    • News
    • Calendar
    • Contact us

Swedish Wood disseminates knowledge about wood, wood products and wood in construction, contributing towards a sustainable society and a thriving sawmill industry. We achieve this by inspiring, educating and driving technical advances.

Swedish Wood represents the Swedish sawmill industry and is part of the Swedish Forest Industries Federation. Swedish Wood represents the Swedish glulam, CLT and packaging industries, and collaborates closely with Swedish builders’ merchants and wholesalers of wood products.

© The Swedish Forest Industries Federation, 2026.

Swedish Wood
Visiting address: Storgatan 19
Postal address: Box 55525, SE-102 04 Stockholm
Phone: +46 8 762 72 60
info@swedishwood.com

Publisher: Lisa Alexandersson

Follow Swedish Wood

Our websites

Fire Safety Wood in Construction (UK market)
Timber Development UK
Swedish Wood learning portal
Swedish Forest Industries