Would you like to help build sustainable agricultural buildings?

In recent years, more farmers have recognised the benefits of using timber in buildings for the climate, as well as for the people and animals who use them. This creates significant opportunities to develop new building solutions. In addition to attractive financing schemes for suppliers, farmers can now receive additional grants to build timber extensions or new timber buildings.

Trees absorb CO2 from the air and grow by storing the carbon in their trunks. Using timber in buildings means that much of this carbon remains stored in the walls and roof throughout the building's lifetime. It also creates space for a new tree to grow where the previous one was felled.

The best option for the climate is to avoid building from scratch and instead reuse materials and repurpose existing buildings. If you still need to build, choose materials and solutions with the lowest possible carbon footprint. In that case, timber is a very good choice compared with other building materials.

Old log-built barns, farmhouses, mountain farmsteads and red barns stand as monuments across the country. However, over the past forty years, a range of other building materials have become common in agriculture. For many years, there has been a shortage of suppliers offering timber solutions, but this is now changing.

As awareness of the unique qualities of timber buildings grows, along with incentives to use wood, so does demand for effective solutions. We believe that existing and potential suppliers of agricultural buildings and production equipment can develop new products, services and concepts to make agriculture even more climate-friendly and efficient.

We want to help both farmers and technology suppliers succeed in making agriculture more climate-friendly. Solutions developed for Norwegian agriculture could also benefit agriculture elsewhere in the world. With funding from us, you can take your idea from the drawing board to a commercial product ready for the global market. Get in touch to learn more about how we can help you with your project.