Wood Construction Laboratory 2025
The laboratory enables full-scale development and testing of structures.
Designed to serve business needs!
Industrial-Scale Development and Testing Equipment and Piloting Environment
Technical performance can be determined for the entity instead of the components, thus making it possible to optimise the use of materials and improve the efficiency of construction. The accelerated weathering test performed on the experimental structure tests and develops the structure’s physical properties.
We serve businesses through service sales, development projects and student cooperation.
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Weathering room
Weathering room
Weathering test chambers can be used to simulate indoor and outdoor conditions. Conditions: -40°C – +80°C / RH 20-95% / UV / rain test.
LoadFrame
LoadFrame
The structural testing equipment enables an almost unlimited number of different wooden and hybrid structures to be tested on an industrial scale and close to actual building component assemblies.
Large-scale 3D printing
Large-scale 3D printing
Printing volume of 1.3 x 2.5 x 1 m (3.25 m3)! Compatible with a wide range of granulated thermoplastic polymers and composites as printing materials. The workstation also includes a 45° printing head and a milling head for post-processing of surfaces.
Professional Services
Professional Services
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Trainings, workshops, theme days
Trainings, workshops, theme days
Besides piloting and testing, seminars, workshops, trade fairs, trainings and theme days are all possible in the Industrial Wood Construction Laboratory.
Examples of the services
Development of existing solutions
- Vibration of the intermediate floors, soundproofing, strength
- Comprehensive sound insulation of building parts and extensions
- Strength and stiffness of force joints between building components
- Developing dimensioning of CLT, LVL and log structures
- Moisture engineering testing of building components and building materials (moisture behavior and weather resistance, seals…)
Creating new concepts
- Hybrid structures (combined wood, concrete and steel structures)
- Massive wood structures
- Frames for residential and office buildings as well as schools and kindergartens
- New types of wooden building systems
Full-scale prototypes
- Prototype building and testing services
Test-Field and Test Buildings
Xamk currently operates four test houses in Savonlinna Technology Park.
- For analysing the behavior of joints, materials, and building elements in various Finnish weather conditions, aiding in their design and development validation.
Explore our research and discover more
Itäpuu – Eastern Finland wood product cluster
HIFO – Hybrid intermediate floor optimization for wood construction
VIIMA – New measurement and modeling technologies of veneer products and processes
KIRA CIRCULARIS – Circular economy products, services and innovations in the real estate and construction industry
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Location
Industrial Wood Construction And Technical Testing Laboratory and FiberLaboratory are situated next to each other in Technology Park Noheva in Savonlinna.
Address:
South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences Ltd
Industrial Wood Construction And Technical Testing Laboratory
Vipusenkatu 9, FI-57200 Savonlinna
FINLAND
Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
- The Industrial Wood Construction Laboratory enables the development and testing of large structures on a real scale. We research, test and develop large-scale wooden structures and wooden elements and new solutions for construction joints. We improve the standardisation of wood construction products, guidelines and the cost-effectiveness of construction.
The laboratory can test full-scale wall elements, beams, joints and lattice structures. Our equipment enables an almost unlimited number of different wooden and hybrid structures to be tested on an industrial scale.
One of the laboratory’s specialties is two weathering test chambers: one can create outdoor conditions and the other indoor conditions. Structural testing can load structures by pulling, compressing and tension. Dynamic loading can be used to simulate, for example, vibration in structures.
- We want to offer all companies the opportunity to visit the laboratory without hurry and discuss possible cooperation. Book a private tour for your company!
- We constantly collect development needs and ideas from our stakeholders. We help in the development efforts of ideas, and we are looking for funding to implement projects. We make bold and proactive project openings that meet the needs of growth-oriented companies, the public sector and the region in the long term, and we aim for concrete results that will be used by the companies in the region. We always create something new and useful: we find solutions and develop good ideas into practice. Contact us and tell about your project idea!
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- We invite you to contact us.
Topical articles
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New European university INGENIUM begins cooperation – Xamk the only Finnish higher education institution to participate
Events
Rakennustuotepäivä 2025
Rakennustuotteiden emissiot ja VOC – Regulaatio, mittaukset ja hallinta
Site visits
Book a time to explore the new laboratory!
Let’s talk about possible cooperation.
It is possible to set up a private tour for your business!
The maximum number of participants per group is 50 persons.
Media publications
- These Products Have Already Been Developed at Lypsyniemi’s Wood Laboratory for Companies in Savonlinna – Patent and New Business in Progress / Näitä tuotteita Lypsyniemen puulabrassa on jo kehitetty savonlinnalaisille yrityksille – Vireillä patentti ja uusi yritys, (Itä-Savo, May 8, 2025)
- Xamk’s New Industrial Wood Construction Laboratory Is Creating Markets for Recycled Wood / Xamkin uudessa teollisen puurakentamisen laboratoriossa kehitetään markkinoita kierrätyspuulle, (Itä-Savo, April 17, 2025)
- Giant Laboratory Puts Wooden Structures to the Test – In Savonlinna, You Can Now Pull, Press, and Bend Container-Sized Elements / Jättilaboratorio pistää puurakenteet koetukselle – Savonlinnassa voi nyt vetää, puristaa ja taivuttaa merikontin kokoisia elementtejä, (Maaseudun Tulevaisuus, May 17, 2024)
- Rantasalmi Award for the Wood Laboratory / Rantasalmi-palkinto puulaboratoriolle, (Rantasalmen Lehti, May 15, 2024)
- Industrial-Scale Development and Testing Equipment and Piloting Environment Established in Savonlinna / Teollisen mittakaavan kehitys- ja testauslaitteistot sekä pilotointiympäristö Savonlinnaan, (Yritysmaailma, May 10, 2024)
- New 1,000 m² Hall for Wooden Structures – Tests Can Be Conducted from -40°C to +80°C / Uusi 1 000 neliön halli puurakenteita varten – Testejä voidaan tehdä 40 pakkasasteesta 80 plusasteeseen, (Tekniikka & Talous, February 2, 2024)
- The Wood Construction Laboratory Is Now Complete and Open / Puurakentamisen laboratorio on nyt valmis ja avattu, (Savonmaa, January 31, 2024)
- Impressive Industrial Wood Construction Laboratory Opened in Savonlinna – “We’re Saving the World Here, Nothing More, Nothing Less” / Komea teollisen puurakentamisen laboratorio avattiin Savonlinnassa – ”Pelastamme täällä maailmaa, ei sen enempää eikä vähempää”, (Itä-Savo, January 25, 2024)
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