Researchers Summer School on Forestry and Wood Construction
How can we fully harness the climate change mitigation potential of wood construction? Wood has been used for millennia to build shelters and remains one of our most versatile materials. In recent years, wood has been enjoying renaissance as a construction material and there are a growing number of examples of the use of wood in high-rise buildings. Wood is seen as an ecological material, with the potential to lower the impact of buildings - through the substitution of energy-intensive materials and through its ability to store carbon. The role that it can play in helping to mitigate climate change is rather less well understood.
This course will provide an overview of how the inherent properties of wood can be used to good effect to create a more sustainable built environment, through the development of real-life solutions, co-created in multidisciplinary teams. One of the key components of this summer school will be a real-life challenge given by an invited stakeholder from one of the following sectors - construction industry, forest industry, real estate owners, investors or public authorities.