Combustibles ban could spell end of cross-laminated timber, says architect who helped pioneer it

By Thomas Lane2018-06-28T06:00:00

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Waugh Thistleton’s Anthony Thistleton says the UK “would go from a world leader to a backwater” with the collapse of CLT

An architect specialising in cross-laminated timber (CLT) buildings has warned that the government’s proposed ban on combustible cladding materials could spell the end of the construction method.

Anthony Thistleton, director of award-winning practice Waugh Thistleton, said that the proposals would stop CLT being used for the structure of residential buildings over six storeys high.

He said: “It could potentially mean a complete collapse of CLT in this country – we would go from a world leader to a backwater.”

The firm was behind London’s first housing scheme to be made from prefabricated solid timber, with the nine-storey scheme at Murray Grove in Hackney, east London, completing in 2009.

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