Introducing Gaia, the largest wooden building in Asia

Introducing Gaia, NTU's newest building. Let Nanyang Business School student Chang Jit Wei take you on a tour of the largest wooden building in Asia.
The six-storey Gaia houses a 190-seat auditorium, 12 lecture theatres and 15 seminar rooms. The exposed wood aesthetic of the building helps to make it environmentally friendly, as it reduces the use of materials such as paint and tiling that are associated with high levels of pollution during their production.
The use of sustainable construction methods such as Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Construction (PPVC) and Mass Engineered Timber (MET) means the project has already achieved the BCA Green Mark Platinum Net Zero Energy Building award.

[@abufatih1359]

How many trees were cut down to build this animal?

[@GKP999]

WIth no paint or varnishing on the wood, I wonder how the wood will hold up in the hot and humid Singapore climate.

[@jogo798]

Its mass engineered timber, its designed for that

[@JanetLOH-t7r]

the building is ''sustainable'' but the cup used by the student - is it single-use only?

[@orschep1]

Wood is much better then concrete. No waste after knoking down in 100 years al the wood can be easy converted in electricity. 1m3 concrete= 200-300kg co2 1m3 Wood store inside 1000kg co2 from the enviroment. So every m3 wood instead of concrete save the enviroment more then 1200kg co2 Timber structures 3.0 from Zürich CH and Schilliger Holz from Küssnacht CH Allready made great things with timber.

[@vaishnaviselvakumar4048]

Cedric asks the whole school got only one student?

[@MyatIngyin]

May I know who is this Cedric guy?

[@DAMNBros]

One fire breakout then boooom