Dalston Lane (fig 12) is the world’s largest CLT building and a landmark project for Waugh Thistleton Architects, in a big step toward their ambition to create high-density urban housing from timber across London and eventually throughout the world. The ten storey 121-unit development is constructed entirely from CLT, from the external, party and core walls to the floors and stairs. Weighing just a fifth of a concrete structure of the same size, and reducing the amount of deliveries to site throughout the construction process by 80 percent, this project highlights all the environmental advantages gained when working with CLT on a large scale (Waugh Thistleton Architects, 2017).

Aside from confronting London’s need for quality, high-density housing that provides a healthy living environment head on, this revolutionary use of timber technology has reduced this building’s carbon footprint greatly; material production coupled with onsite time and energy consumption both contributing to this. Moreover, due to the huge reduction in weight in comparison to a building constructed with concrete or steel, this building is taller than ever thought possible on the neglected brownfield site (Waugh Thistleton Architects, 2017).