Marmormolen, or nine floors on Klimas Wkręt-met screw
Another masterpiece investment with wood, in which the Polish manufacturer has an important share, is just being built in Denmark. This time Klimas Wkręt-met is delivering its screws to the Nordhavn coast.
How many screws will go from Poland to Copenhagen to serve the Marmormolen project?
– It’s hard to say because we’re only at the beginning of construction,” says Slawomir Iwanicki, export manager at Klimas Wkręt-met. – We are currently supplying our WKFC, WKLC, and WKCH screws there in the hundreds of thousands.
The most interesting project on the Danish coast
The complex of seven buildings framed in one block, each nine stories high, will be one of the largest contemporary wooden structures in Denmark. Marmormolen, as it is called, will be completed next year, and its unusual wooden structure will house office, retail, and dining spaces, becoming a symbol of urban living on Denmark’s Nordhavn coast.
The entire district is essentially an unusual architectural experiment. Until now treated as rather industrial, it had none of the charm of coastal city neighborhoods. Recent years, however, have changed the situation, and Copenhagen’s Nordhavn has turned out to be an excellent place for prototypical concepts, including buildings created from recycled bricks. The Marmormolen complex, built from wood, fits perfectly into this re-created atmosphere of Nordhavn.
Wood – the technology of the future
Although wood has so far been rather associated with the past of construction, it is coming back into favor. Especially wood in CLT technology, or cross-laminated timber, which is created by cross-laminating wood in layers. This creates structural timber, which significantly increases the pace of construction work while being relatively lightweight and at the same time very durable. Technological advancements guarantee precise cutting of the wooden material, and the constant development of Klimas Wkręt-met’s product portfolio already makes it possible to deliver the highest quality screws to the construction site, enabling the execution of fast and durable connections of wooden elements.
With the planet in min
The trend back to wood construction also means a huge step toward reducing the carbon footprint of construction. Wood is a material that is definitely at the forefront of the list of sustainable alternatives. Unlike concrete, wood has the property of storing CO2, swapping concrete for wood construction therefore means that instead of emitting tons of the harmful gas, the building stores it.
In the case of Marmormolen, the green nature of the development is also supported by its surroundings – it will be surrounded on three sides by green urban space, including a planned waterfront park. The building is to include space for a canteen and a public eatery, and terraces and gardens are planned on the roofs. It is there that vegetables are to be produced for the aforementioned eatery, in addition to which biodiversity is also to be found on the rooftops: beehives and insect houses will stand there, in addition to vegetable gardens.
Marmormolen is, therefore, an investment that is a great reference for Klimas Wkręt-met products, both because of the company’s activities promoting wood construction in Central and Eastern European countries and because of its sustainable nature.
