Tall & Urban News

Mitsui Fudosan and Takenaka Corporation are planning to build a 17-story wood-framed office tower in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district. With a proposed height of 70 meters, this could be among the tallest wooden buildings in Japan. 

Construction is tenatively scheduled to start in 2023 with completion in 2025. The building's floor area would be 26,000 square meters (280,000 square feet) and be constructed from 1,000 cubic meters of domestic lumber. The main structure would be a hybrid that incorporates Takenaka's fire-resistant laminated wood with materials sourced from Mitsui-owned forestry in Hokkaido. Carbon dioxide emissions would be 20 percent less than those when construction a standard steel-frame office building of the same size and scale. 

Mitsui Fudosan Group owns approximately 5,000 hectares of forestry in Hokkaido, all of which has been certified by the Sustainable Green Ecosystem Council. 

For more on this story, go to Japan Property Central.