Building sustainably with wood

As a renewable raw material, wood stores CO₂ and can eventually be returned to the natural cycle. What’s more, when considered over its entire life cycle – from harvesting to processing to transport – the energy balance and sustainability of wood are unbeatable. That’s why building with wood also means taking responsibility – for current and future generations.

Wood as a material

Wood is a renewable resource. Sustainably managed forests continuously produce new building material. At the same time, the wood already used in buildings continues to absorb CO₂ over the long term. This is also building sustainably with wood: the short transport routes from the local forest to the sawmill and planing mill conserve resources and strengthen local value creation. Most of Blumer Lehmann’s round timber comes from the local area – and is processed in its entirety. A cycle that works.

Sustainability of wood in a closed cycle

From the tree to the building and back again: at Blumer Lehmann, wood passes through an entire value chain. In the sawmill, planing mill and finger-jointing mill, around 170,000 m³ of Swiss logs are turned into a comprehensive range of construction products every year. Whatever is not used as construction material is turned into carbon-neutral pellets, residual timber products and energy. At the end of the building’s useful life, the wood can be reused or thermally recycled – with no waste at all.