Construction of the first quarter of wooden apartment buildings Wood City will begin in Helsinki in 2013 and will, says the marketing director of the developer company SRV Taneli Hassinen.
High-rise wooden house building in Finland received the "green light" in 2011, when the process of getting permission for construction of buildings of wood up to eight floors was simplified.
According to the professor from architectural Aalto University Kimmo Lylykangas, from an environmental point of view, high-rise wood construction makes sense, at the same time for economic reasons, the construction can be costly, as the developers are accustomed to dealing only with concrete structures.
Source: http://eco.ria.ru/business/20120510/645593463.html