Bjergsted Financial Park, an innovative timber framed office building in Stavanger

The design of Finansparken Bjergsted is innovative inits use of a traditional building material, timber, asthe load bearing structure in a modern office building.It takes advantage of advanced prefabricated timberelements that are engineered for strength and canbe prefabricated with strict tolerances for a rapidconstruction process. Connections are also designed,where possible, to transfer forces directly betweentimber members with minimal steel parts. Self-tapping timber screws and steel threaded rods areused as local reinforcement in accordance with thelatest technology.The inherent advantages of BIM have been used frompreliminary design through to fabrication.