A Future With Natural Wood
Bestselling Austrian author Dr. Erwin Thoma not only loves the forest, he also has a deep understanding of its tree societies and their ecosystems. Through the ...
Ideas don't fall from trees
25 February 2022 Goldegg… but they can grow just the same.
In the coming months, we will take you on a fascinating development journey. Our Research & Development department will give you exclusive insights into new ideas and projects.
Our team in Goldegg is developing, fine-tuning and grinding away around the clock on new solutions for a climate-friendly construction industry. Here at Thoma, we set ourselves complex tasks in order to solve them in harmony with nature. Currently, our thinkers are particularly preoccupied with the following question:
If wood is 100% recyclable – can we then develop modules that are 100% degradable and 100% reusable elsewhere?
That would be a real step towards the circular construction economy. And we would like to take it, because wood as a building material does not lose its ability to store CO2 when a house is demolished. Instead of burning our wall and ceiling modules, we want to reuse them elsewhere in new architecture.
In this way, a house would become a new house, a new house, a new house… no longer theoretical but practical! Sounds fascinating, doesn’t it?
We have had the first sketches for this for some time. Thanks to a project within the framework of the European Union, our approach is getting a Europe-wide resonance. Because our research team was able to convince the experts from Interreg.
Interreg is a joint initiative of the European Regional Development Fund, which aims to promote cooperation between EU member states and neighbouring non-EU countries. The programmes are embedded in the European Territorial Cooperation.
Look forward to a journey into the new territory of the construction industry and through the united Europe. Are you with us?
