Why are we suddenly making so many timber construction meters? Journalist Kirsten Hannema wrote an incisive analysis in de Volkskrant about the boom in timber construction and a practical 7-step plan to take that movement further. The article also features Finch Buildings founder Jurrian Knijtijzer.

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More designers with sustainable ideals - in the absence of clients asking for timber construction - started their own timber construction business in recent years. Architect Jurrian Knijtijzer, for example, has been developing wooden modules with his company Finch Buildings since 2014. With these, he has now completed fourteen projects, from a turret with 22 starter apartments in Amsterdam North to a complex with 158 rental homes in Haarlem. 'That's less than I expected ten years ago,' says Knijtijzer. 'Although I realize that we have done more than build: those projects have also contributed to the acceptance of timber construction.'

Read the full article at Volkskrant.nl.