Crosslam completes Brazil's tallest mass-timber tower
Engineering company Crosslam has designed and built Aurora 275, a hybrid building with mass-timber elements that the company claims is the tallest of its type in Brazil.
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Standing 22 metres tall, Aurora 275 is considered a hybrid-timber building, with a structural system consisting of a reinforced concrete core, metal, and mass-timber elements including glued-laminated timber (glulam) beams and columns.
Located in the Suzano area of São Paulo, according to Crosslam, it is the tallest building of its type in Brazil.
Crosslam, which usually acts as an engineer for other firms, designed the building itself to demonstrate the potential of mass timber in Brazil.
"We believed that, to sell the first timber building, we first had to build our own," said Crosslam founder José Alberto Corrêa. "Otherwise, the Brazilian market wouldn't trust that it was possible."
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