W350 project
Sumitomo Forestry announced that its technology research development project W350 Plan was chosen to be a finalist in the Best Future Project category of the MIPIM Awards 2020. The MIPIM Awards 2020 presents awards to the world’s outstanding real estate developments, and this is the second consecutive year that the W350 Plan has been selected as a finalist. Source: Timberbiz
Out of a total number of more than 200 entries, only 45 were chosen as finalists of the respective 11 categories.
The MIPIM AWARDS 2020 will be held in the south of France, in Cannes from 10-13 March with more than 20,000 people, including developers, investors and government officials expected to attend.
The winners will be announced in a ceremony to be held on 12 March.
The W350 Plan is a technology research development project for creating an environmentally friendly and timber utilizing city centred on a 350-meter-tall wooden high-rise building in 2041, which will mark the 350th year since the foundation of Sumitomo Forestry in 1691.
Sumitomo Forestry was responsible for the overall plan in collaboration with Nikken Sekkei.
The new research building at the Tsukuba Research Institute which was completed in October 2019 was used to verify the underlying technologies of the W350 Plan and serve as a base for disseminating a wide range of expertise related to timber and advanced technologies based on the scientific study of wood.
In addition to developing construction methods for wooden high-rise buildings, it is verifying the impact that wooden and green spaces have on people and conducting trial experiments that compare the productivity of employees actually working at the research institute with those at the old office. This time the entry incorporated specific details about the impact of wood on people.
Through the W350 Plan, Sumitomo Forestry
