About the project
Matchbox is a seven-storey mixed-use building that combines 36 social rental apartments with office spaces on the lower floors and commercial units in the plinth on Strijp-S in Eindhoven. The building forms a striking landmark at the entrance of the Strijp-S triangle and creates a lively place for living, working and small-scale entrepreneurship.
Long-term CO₂ storage is realised through a mainly timber structure, including glulam columns and beams, CLT floors, timber gallery elements and HSB façade panels, supported by a concrete core for stability. This hybrid approach reduces the use of more carbon-intensive materials such as concrete and maximises the volume of biobased materials in which carbon is locked for decades.
The project targets a service life of at least 75 years for the biobased components and stores 1,099 tonnes of CO₂ within a total gross floor area of about 5,507 m². Features such as a green internal patio, permeable ground level, rainwater systems, solar panels and strong support for cycling contribute to a healthy, climate-adaptive and circular built environment.
About the remover
The remover in this project is Stichting Trudo, a social housing corporation and urban developer that acts as client, owner, landlord and user of Matchbox. Trudo develops, rents out and partly occupies the building itself, aligning the project directly with its broader social and climate objectives.
Trudo aims to be climate neutral by 2025 and uses carbon storage in buildings like Matchbox, alongside emission reduction, to achieve this ambition. By certifying the stored carbon through ONCRA, Trudo ensures that the climate impact of the timber construction is transparently quantified, monitored and verified over time.
Through careful material choices, such as sustainably certified timber, dry and demountable connections and long-term maintenance planning, Trudo ensures that the stored biogenic carbon remains locked in the building for at least 35 years and realistically 75 years or more. This makes Trudo an active remover that uses the built environment as a durable carbon sink within a circular and socially oriented development strategy.
See documentation
https://oncra.org/trudo-C-001/