Norwegian Wood Cluster leads and participates in a number of projects that will provide insight and development of modern wood construction.
Ongoing projects
WOOD standard 2.0
2025 – 2027 | In progress
Goal
Follow-up of project “TRE-Standard”. Will, among other things, survey and analyze to provide a technical basis for changes to the EPD standard for building products. The project will also increase the standardization expertise of Norwegian woodworking companies and strengthen Nordic cooperation in this area.
Participants
Norwegian Wood Cluster (owner), Treindustrien and Treteknisk, Dynea AS, Forestia AS, Gausdal Treindustrier AS, Hunton Fiber AS, InnTre Kjelstad AS, Moelven Industrier ASA and Stangeskovene AS, WoodWorks! Cluster and Innotre. Reference group: Expert group Future building solutions.
Financing
Support from Innovation Norway, cash contributions from the wood industry and the companies, as well as personal contributions from all participants.
3SOUND
2024 – 2027 | In progress
Goal
The project will develop a database for sound insulation for floor partitions in wooden buildings and provide a basis for preaccepted solutions for buildings up to 6 floors.
Participants
Norwegian Wood Cluster (owner), SINTEF and NTNU and the following companies:
ARE Treindustrier AS, Hersleth Entreprenør AS, Hunton Fiber AS, Kontur Arkitekter AS, Norconsult Norge AS, Norsk Massivtre AS, Ny Struktur AS and Sweco Norge AS and Brekke & Strand Akustikk AS. Reference group: Professional group Future Building Solutions.
Financing
Support from Innovation Norway and cash contribution from Norwegian Wood Cluster. Own efforts from all participating companies.
Sustainability communication about wooden buildings
2024 – 2025 | In progress
Goal
The project will give companies in the value chain a better basis for documenting and communicating about sustainable wooden buildings to strengthen competitiveness and ensure market access.
Participants
Norwegian Wood Cluster. Reference group: Faggruppe Kommunikasjon.
Funding
Support from Innlandet County Council and own efforts from Norwegian Wood Cluster.
Circular lumber wrap
2025-2026 | In progress
Objective
The project will develop and test on an industrial scale a closed-loop system of lumber foil to reduce resource consumption and increase the recycling of plastics in the wood and construction industries.
Participants
Norwegian Wood Cluster (owner), Blåne AS, Gausdal Landhandleri AS, Gausdal Treindustrier SA, Haagensen Plast AS, Litra Containerservice, Norfolier GreenTec AS and Østlandet Gjenvinning AS. Reference group: Faggruppe Bærekraft.
Funding
Funding from Innovation Norway, cash contributions from companies and personal contributions from all participants.
Climate-friendly buildings Innlandet
2023 – 2026 | In progress
Goal
The project will accelerate climate-friendly material use and construction processes in Inland Norway.
The goal is for the county’s building and construction sector to take a proactive, leading role in climate-friendly building practices, both in new builds and renovation.
Participants
The project is led by Norwegian Wood Cluster in collaboration with Civitas and Norconsult.
The target group for the project is the construction industry in Innlandet county, including public and private developers, contractors, architects, consultants and recyclers.
Funding
Support from Innlandet County Council and Innovation Norway.
The Circular Bioeconomy Arena
2023-2026 | In progress
Goal
To increase insight and contact across the Norway-Sweden border within the reuse of wood in wooden buildings and packaging. The project will lift good, circular business ideas to commercialization and internationalization, as well as further develop the innovation systems on the Norwegian and Swedish sides through collaboration.
Participants
Norwegian Wood Cluster and Paper Province own the project and collaborate closely with Innovatum Science Park and Dalerna Science Park.
In addition, Sting Bioeconomy, ByggDialog Dalerna, Kjeller Innovasjon AS, Klosser Innovasjon AS, Circular Packaging Cluster and DNB Bank ASA are partners in the project. Reference group: NWC’s specialist group on sustainability
Funding
On the Norwegian side, the project is funded by Interreg Sweden-Norway, the counties of Akershus, Buskerud, Østfold and Innlandet. In addition, Norwegian Wood Cluster SA is contributing its own funds and DNB Bank ASA is contributing its own funds and cash. On the Swedish side, the project is funded by the EU, Vinnova and the regions of Dalerna, Värmland and Vestre Götaland.
WOOD-Automation
2022-2025 | In progress
Goal
The project will provide the woodworking companies in the Norwegian Wood Cluster with increased insight into the possibilities of utilizing automation and robotization in the production processes, in order to strengthen their competitiveness.
Participants
Norwegian Wood Cluster owns the project. Sparring partners are Moelven Limtre AS and NTNU. Faggruppe Digitalisering og automasjon is the reference group.
Funding
Support from Innovation Norway and participants’ own efforts.
Finance and sustainability
2022-2025 | In progress
Goal
The project will increase insight into ongoing work in finance and sustainability relevant to the forestry and wood industry.
The main deliverable from the project is a guide for sustainability reporting. Version 1.0 was published on March 20, 2024.
Participants
Norwegian Wood Cluster (owner) and the companies Forestia AS, Glommen Mjøsen Skog SA, Moelven Industrier ASA, Norges Skogeierforbund, SpareBank1 Østlandet, TreFokus AS and Viken Skog SA. Reference group: Faggruppe Bærekraft.
Funding
Part of the Green Platform project “SirkTRE”, funded by the Research Council of Norway, Innovation Norway and SIVA. All participants contribute with their own efforts. In addition, cash contributions from the companies.
Completed projects
SirkTRE
2021-2025 | Completed
Goal
SirkTRE was established as a national project to develop expertise, technology and standards that enable a circular value chain for wood in the construction and real estate sector. SirkTRE has explored how the principles of the circular economy can give wood multiple lives, thus helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, strengthen value creation in the construction industry and promote more sustainable social development.
Participants
The project has brought together more than 30 partners across industry, research, administration and the construction industry, and through more than 40 pilots and activities has built up a knowledge and industry base that Norway has not previously had. The project has been led by Omtre. Norwegian Wood Cluster was one of the initiators of the project and has participated as a partner.
Funding
Forskningsrådet/ Grønn Plattform
Website: https://www.sirktre.no
Final report: SirkTRE
Heartwood
2022-2025 | Completed
Goal
Develop models for lifelong learning and test different competence models for the woodworking industry.
Participants
Norwegian Wood Cluster (owner), Begna Bruk AS, Forestia AS, Gausdal Treindustrier AS, Hunton Fiber AS and Moelven Industrier ASA, as well as Innlandet County Council, Læringsfabrikken, NTNU, Ringsaker vgs and Vitensenteret. Reference group: Faggruppe Kompetanse.
Funding
Support from Innlandet County Council and participants’ own efforts.
WOOD standard
2022-2024 | Completed
Goal
The project has increased insight into ongoing standardization work relevant to the woodworking industry. The companies have to an even greater extent understood the importance of engaging in long-term national and international standardization work.
Participants
Norwegian Wood Cluster, Hunton Fiber AS, Moelven Limtre AS, Treteknisk, Treindustrien and Wood Works! Cluster. Reference group: Subject group Future building solutions.
Funding
Supported by Innlandet County Council. Own efforts from all participants.
Packaging and construction
2022-2024 | Completed
Goal
The cluster-to-cluster project “Packaging and construction – Circular resource utilization and packaging of wood materials in construction” facilitated knowledge transfer and aimed to increase cooperation between the players in the two clusters and accelerate the circular economy transition in companies in the construction and packaging sector.
Participants
Circular Packaging Cluster (project owner) and Norwegian Wood Cluster, as well as Begna Bruk AS/RingAlm AS, BoligPartner AS, Borregaard AS, CodeIT AS, Forestia AS, Gausdal Treindustrier SA, Glomma Papp AS Hunton Fiber AS, Looping AS and NMBU. Reference group: Faggruppe Bærekraft.
Funding
Support from Viken County Council. Own efforts from the project participants.