Swedish construction group ByggPartner is building a new three-storey headquarters building in Borlänge, that demonstrates a fully timber-based workplace. The new building is being developed with a clear ambition to strengthen local communities and shorten supply chains. All timber is sourced from regional forestry close to Stora Enso CLT production site in Gruvön, further processing takes place nearby, and assembly is carried out by companies with deep-rooted timber construction expertise in the region.
A new milestone in the project is its logistics: for the first time, Stora Enso's Sylva™ CLT elements are delivered entirely by electric trucks from the Gruvön mill directly to the construction site in Borlänge, Sweden. The electric transport reduces CO₂ emissions around 85% in comparison to diesel trucks. It demonstrates how decarbonisation can be supported with actions across the full value chain.
The electric truck belongs to LBC Frakt, who is the member of the research and innovation project TREE (Transition to efficient, electrified forestry transport), coordinated by the Forestry Research Institute of Sweden. The project is based on a broad collaboration between forest industry actors, researchers, and subcontractors responsible for developing the technical solutions and infrastructure during the period 2024-2026.
Constructed almost entirely from wood, the head quarter building shows the climate advantages based on renewable materials. Wood stores carbon throughout the building's lifetime and can replace fossil-intensive materials such as steel and concrete, resulting in a lower carbon footprint. Optimised design, high-precision prefabrication and targeted substitution of steel components with timber solutions further improve resource efficiency. A high degree of prefabrication ensures fast and precise installation, shortening construction time, and reducing waste. Stora Enso delivers around 400 m³ mass timber elements, which installations have already started. Planned opening of the building is in spring 2027.
