HASSLACHER Norica Timber establishes an inventive timber construction for the ‘International House Sydney’, a seven storey office building with approx. 7,910 m² floor area within the Barangaroo South area. The customer of this project is: Stora Enso. HASSLACHER is happy to collaborate with the company for executing this beautiful project.
Timber species are priortised for this specific project:
- Spruce
- Beech
Total volume: 950 m³ glulam and more than 2,000 m³ of Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) (delivered by Stora Enso Ybbs CLT mill) Ground floor columns made of ‘Ironbark’ Product innovation by HESS TIMBER: Composite beams enabling for the first time large openings in a glulam beam without losing load-bearing capacity or clear height and furthermore no need of further reinforcement. HESS has realised numerous large-scale tests on behalf of the main contractor and with two material testing institutes.”
Project information
》 Location: Sydney, Australia
》 Customer: Stora Enso
》 Architect or planer: Architecture office Tzannes Australia, Co-design Directors Alec Tzannes and Jonathan Evans
》 Design and construction: HESS Timber, Lendlease Australia
》 Used wooden products: HESS BauBuche, HESS BLOCK, HESS BASIC; 950 m³ glued laminated timber
》 Special features: This object is Australia’s first commercial office building constructed from timber!
The HASSLACHER Group is a pioneer in the further development. With a wide range of products the possibilities are endless: Whether cross-laminated timber with its high-quality, sanded surfaces or individually tested glued laminated timber beams – GLT®, whether planked ceilings with the attractive price-performance ratio or glued laminated timber up to 4 m high and 40 m long – the tailor-made order can be combined for delivery on one truck.
All over the world, customers of the HASSLACHER group build on top timber quality, optimum logistics and coordination by a central contact.
Some of the outstanding inventions of HASSLACHER:
- HASSLACHER rib panels
- Surface finishing
- HASSLACHER BauBuche
The HASSLACHER group supplies everything for cutting edge timber construction from a single source – with quality that can be relied on and like its founder Jakob Hasslacher practiced over 120 years ago.
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