China News Service, September 30. According to Japan’s “Oriental News”, Japan’s Mitsui Fudosan and Takenaka Engineering Store announced on the 29th that they will start construction of a 17-story, 70-meter-high wooden building in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, in 2023. Office building.
According to reports, the building covers an area of about 2500 square meters, with a construction area of about 26,000 square meters. It is expected to be completed in 2025 and will be the largest and tallest wooden building in Japan.
The wood used will be harvested from the forests of Hokkaido and treated with fire resistance technology.
The largest existing wooden building in the world is the Great Buddha Hall of Todaiji Temple in Nara, Japan, with a width of 57.5 meters and a height of 49.1 meters.
The tallest wooden building in the world is located in Norway, about 80 meters high.
According to the two companies, wood-structured buildings have the effect of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by about 20% compared to building steel-structured buildings of the same scale.