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What is the most sustainable frame? Is one material superior to the other? What is a frame's total life cycle impact on a building?

Those were the questions that we at Peikko wanted to study in collaboration with Ramboll’s sustainability experts.

As a frame represents almost 30% of total embodied carbon emissions in a building and floors almost 50%, we assumed that the answer lies in them. Addi...

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June 19, 2023

Design Concept: An Account of Peikko’s Demountable Connections

In the ever-evolving world of construction, the need for sustainable and resource-efficient solutions has become paramount. As we strive to build a gr...

May 4, 2023

White Paper – EBEA^® – Surviving the flames

EBEA^® is a load-bearing thermal insulation element that is used to connect cantilevered reinforced concrete components such as balconies, while avoidi...

March 29, 2023

Choose the greenest – the development of design tools leads the way to sustainable design

Sustainable design in the construction sector is no longer an exception or an extraordinary requirement. As ecological values are on the uprise, susta...

February 15, 2023

Jan Bujnak on design automation - Human brain is always needed

In order to be productive, designers need to have the right tools for the job. But does design automation make the designer redundant?

January 18, 2023

High Fire Performance of DELTABEAM^® Slim Floor Joints with Timber Slabs

The use of mass timber products like cross-laminated timber (CLT) slabs have become more popular. As an industry forerunner Peikko’s aims to increase ...

January 11, 2023

DELTABEAM^® CO2 emissions are now easier to calculate

Designers asked — we deliver: new CO2 calculator is online! CO2 footprint is one of the key decision-making tools when comparing different solutions.

December 12, 2022

White Paper: Soil modulus for onshore wind foundation design

Peikko’s latest White Paper is an instruction on how to derive input parameters for the Hardening soil small strain (HSS) mathematical model, which is...

December 8, 2022

Season's Greetings for 2022

We want to use this opportunity to thank our customers and partners for an excellent cooperation. We all at Peikko join in wishing you and your family...

December 1, 2022

Connections meeting Bratislava – Slovakia 2022

Back in December 2019, when we in Peikko started dealing with the organizing of a seminar for our engineers. Simo Peltonen invited professors from the...