Receiving the 2019 Marcus Wallenberg Prize made Gerhard Schickhofer reflect on his career. – It is a situation to think about my work and future, he says. Last October Gerhard Schickhofer received the 2019 Marcus Wallenberg Prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf. The ceremony and following banquet took place in Stockholm, Sweden, with 350 guests from forest industry and forest research worldwide.
Gerhard Schickhofer will Monday 7 October recieve the 2019 Marcus Wallenberg Prize for research and knowledge transfer behind cross-laminated timber, CLT. CLT consists of several layers of solid wood laminations glued together crosswise. The elements are stable and can be used in multi-storey wood buildings. CLT is also a sustainable and renewable material, that stores carbon dioxide.
Professor Gerhard Schickhofer, the Institute of Timber Engineering and Wood Technology at Graz University of Technology, Austria, has laid the scientific and technological foundation for the development of cross-laminated timber, CLT. For his discoveries he is awarded the 2019 Marcus Wallenberg Prize of SEK 2 million.