Looking to build a laneway house to rent?  With Holz100 Canada, we can help you build faster so you can rent out the laneway house sooner!  Holz100 is a solid wood system pre-designed to suite your needs so you don't have to ask questions later.  Design and planning with other trades, such as plumbing, electrical, heating is taken care of before the Holz100 system is manufactured.  Holz100 system is a sustainable product that comes to site ready to be put together.  There are no questions; except for maybe what chair I want to sit in and how I want my coffee.

Not sure if you want to invest in building a laneway house on your property?  Holz100 can make your decision easier.  Building a laneway suite with Holz100 allows you the flexibility to move the home and relocate if you ever decide to move.  A Holz100 home is an investment that can move with you!  A Holz100 system can be constructed onsite within a few days and completed within a few months, compared to a conventional wood frame home that can take weeks to a month to erect and can take up to a year or even longer to finish.  Holz100 is the sustainable choice!

​The timber of Holz100 system is harvested when the sap levels in the trees are at its lowest; influenced by the gravitational pull of the moon cycle.  A stable moisture content is achieved by allowing the timber to drain vertically and drying naturally for at least 1-4 years.  This drying cycle builds a muscle memory in the cellulose fibres of the timbre, thereby producing lumber that is more stable and less prone to cracking and splintering over time.  The result is a controlled indoor climate in Holz100 homes.  

​Holz100 is a breathable building system that is 100% sustainable.  The core principle behind a Holz100 home is its cradle-to-cradle approach.  The product is 100% pure solid wood, without chemical toxins or preservatives, and can be reused and recycled back into nature as compost and nutrients for future thriving trees.  Holz100 harvests only moonwood, that are slowly dried naturally, allowing the trees to mature and stabilize with a low relative moisture content.  Holz100 has a 50-year warranty against mold and condensation.  

​Do you have cabin fever?  Never feel isolated again!  Holz100 is an innovative breathable building system that brings nature indoors.  Holz100 homes are 100% pure solid wood, free of chemicals and toxins.  Without synthetic glues and paints, or dust from mineral wool, the building is able to breathe and acts as a natural filter.  Holz100 is an eco-friendly product, and perfect for allergy sufferers.  

​The moisture content in your new hardwood flooring is as important as the building structure to prevent shrinkage and gaps once you’ve moved in.  Holz100 is a sustainable, natural, sound-proof solution to building a wood home that is less prone to dryness overtime due to its natural slow drying process.  The moisture content of a wood home built with the Holz100 system is 6-10%.  

​The Holz100 system is harvested from mature trees that have been naturally exposed to varying temperatures and weather conditions throughout its drying lifecycle.  The drying process, therefore, instills in the wood a muscle memory.  The slow and natural drying process enables the oxidation and depletion of sugars that otherwise would attract the growth of fungi, mold and insects.  Build a sustainable wood home with Holz100.

Holz100 harvest trees at the right time and maximizes natural wood drying techniques to achieve quality timber with natural moisture protection. 

Moisture content below 20%, protects the wood from fungi growth. 
Moisture content below 8-12% deters insects from feeding on the wood.

​A wood home built with Holz100 timber will have a moisture content of 6-10% and will be naturally protected from fungi and insects.  

Passive houses without insulation and complicated building technology built from natural wood was long considered a utopia. Today, such a house is available and affordable to everyone, thanks to the successful developments in the Thoma research center. 

Thoma means energy self-sufficiency and the woodpecker in the forest shows us the way for the energy of the future: being surrounded by massive timber allows your home to be warm during winter and cool in the summer.

Erwin Thoma published with the medical professor Dr. Max Moser, the inventor of the health effects from wood to man, the book "Gentle Medicine of the Trees", Servus Publisher Erwin Thoma and Max Moser. 

Other aspects such as the spiritual messages of different types of wood, expand the holistic handling of wood which flows into all of Thoma's products. It is always important to leave the wood as unadulterated and natural as possible.

Scientific investigations were hired to prove the effects - with amazing results. Reduced heartbeats, more restful sleep, increased concentration, as well as a strengthening of the immune system and the autonomic nervous system could be used for a wood environment was detected.

The Pillars of the Company Thoma

Thoma stands for a healthy living environment. The ideal to use wood and its health-promoting effect in the form of building materials accompanied Thoma since its founding in 1990.

- Holz100 is the first building material to be produced using solar energy.
- Thoma operates the world's first and largest moonwood sawmill as well as a saw casting plant.

- The Neo Ark in Kitzbuhel. From Holz100 the first large office (6,600 sq.m.) was built entirely of wood in which the heating and cooling costs are zero Euros. 
- The Forsthofalm in Leogang: Holz100 became the first seven-storey wooden hotel with a pool built on the roof.

​• Holz100 is the world's quietest wooden hotel. The Waldklause in Längenfeld.
• Holz100 became the first five-storey without insulation and heating technology made of wood. The residential and commercial building of N11 Architekten, Switzerland.

In light timber frame constructions the walls and floors are typically encased in non-combustible gypsum plasterboard to provide protection from fire. This provides the same level of fire resistance as a completely non-combustible material.

An additional benefit to heavy timber is the ease of repair after a fire. The charred sections can visually be assessed and evaluated for residual capacity, and the damaged timber can then be cut away and replaced. This is in contrast to steel, which buckles under extreme heat. 

​Charring creates a protective layer that acts as insulation and delays the onset of heating for the cold layer below. With continued exposure to fire the char layer grows, increasing the insulation and slowing down the burning rate, providing greater time for escape or intervention.

​Heavy timber constructions have an inherent level of fire resistance. This resistance increases with the thickness of the wooden elements because when timber is exposed to fire the outer layer burns and turns to char. 

​Engineers and fire researchers today have a significant body of knowledge of how timber constructions perform in fire. The structural stability of timber is well understood and importantly it is predictable, allowing timber constructions to be created that meet the same fire safety codes as steel and concrete buildings.

Fire Safety

​A common concern raised in regard to the use of wood as a building material is whether or not there is an increased risk of fire.

​The Martian Embassy was a runner up in the Interior Fitout category of the Australian Timber Design Awards.

Project partners Will O’Rourke and The Glue Society stated that the warm tones of wood transformed the previously long, dark and unloved shop into a source of inspiration that kids are excited to walk into.