CLT
Cross-laminated timber is an engineered structural panel, built up from layers of solid timber glued at right angles to one another. It carries a load in two directions, which lets it stand in for concrete and steel in floors, walls and roofs – and lets a building store carbon in its structure rather than emit it.
Start with the full guide: What is cross-laminated timber? A CLT guide. From there, explore whether mass timber could drive deforestation, see a CLT house built into a hillside, and furniture made from surplus panels.
VIDEO: Could a rise in mass timber and CLT cause deforestation? New research says yes
A 2025 paper in Nature Communications makes the strongest quantified case yet for building with mass timber at scale. But it also highlights the potential for deforestation.
What is cross-laminated timber? A comprehensive guide to CLT
The full comprehensive guide to cross-laminated timber (CLT) in Australia – unpacking what it is, how it’s sustainable and how it performs.
Explore homes made with CLT or Glulam
CLT House is a retreat designed to weather in the open
Designed by nArchitects, CLT House is a lake house built almost entirely from exposed cross-laminated timber, scaled down from an unbuilt 2008 scheme.
A CLT house buried into a hillside
Hello Wood’s CLT House shelters into a sloping site outside Budapest, where a timber structure and green roof make for a home at ease in nature.
The Apple House is an imaginative test of natural materials
A community building with heart, The Apple House features hemp, lime plaster, spruce glulam and an earthen floor – all with a respectful outlook to the surrounding orchard.
