Wallenstam completed Sweden’s largest reuse project in 2022 by transporting the Östermalmshallen market hall from Stockholm, 500 kilometres southwest to Mölnlycke, just outside Gothenburg. There, the wooden building was converted into a padel hall with an accompanying restaurant. This project has been a great example of the suitability of Kerto® LVL elements for demounting and reuse in construction.
The design of the building is based on prefabricated elements. The roof structure consists of Kerto LVL beams laid out in a grid-like pattern, making for a stronger structure and smaller material consumption, while also giving an open feel. Material-efficient Kerto LVL beams also made the hall’s disassembly, interim storage and assembly easier, as everything fit together precisely and nothing needed to be added to the roof beam structure, for example.