Architects:Voll Arkitekter

Area :15000 m²

Year :2019

Photographs :Ricardo Foto, Øystein Elgsaas

Contractor :Hent AS

Engineering :Moelven Limtre, Sweco

Architect In Charge : Øystein Elgsaas

Design Team : Kathrine Slørdahl Skjærpe, Claudia Arnaut

Client : AB Invest

Pre Fabricated Elements : Ringsaker Vegg og Takelementer

Prefabricated Elements : Ringsaker Vegg og Takelementer

City : Brumunddal

Country : Norway

We have all the responsibility to find new ways of thinking. And not only thinking, but actually doing. Mjøstårnet is the first time in history that something like this has been constructed on this scale. It’s also, the first time in history that the materials and the expertise have been sourced locally. Our client says that standing on top of the viewing platform of Mjøstårnet, you can “actually see” where the timber comes from and where it was processed. And that’s part of our sustainable movement being put into practice. Together with our client and constructor, we began to sketch out the project in early 2015.

Together with Moelven Limtre, Norway’s leading glulam manufacturer and the specialists at Sweco, the engineering company, the team came together, to construct an 18-floor building between 80 to 90 meters high in Brumunddal. The result is the world's tallest timber building according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Achieving this required an unparalleled level of skill amongst those who participated, and it is the interaction and cooperation between all the remarkable people that made this record possible.