Workshop NEXT Timber – Novel Execution tool for Timber structures. Rica Nidelven Hotel

NEXT Timber seeks to develop an open standard tool for planning and execution of timber buildings on an international context. The present event is the state of art workshop of related activities in the participating countries and this initiates the NEXT Timber project.

Opening conference exhibition | Student works Meeting point: Wood festival street at the wooden stairs, Kjøpmannsgata 27 (see map)

Opening conference exhibition along the row of ware houses in Kjøpmannsgata. Works of students, young architects, traditional handicraft, exhibitions etc.

Program Wood festival, see news

Pre-conference tour in Trondheim | Meeting point: Wood festival street at the wooden stairs, Kjøpmannsgata 27 (see map)

Chose between three different tours which all will encompass new wooden buildings, the repair of wooden buildings and wood art in townscape.

1. Bus ride west:
Åsveien school, Haukåsen kindergarten and NINA
2. Bus ride east:
NINA, Nardo school, Svartlamoen dwellings and Art Hotel Norway.
3. Walking tour in the centre of Trondheim:
Borkaplassen, Stiftsgården, detached home in Bakklandet and the ware house in Kjøpmannsgaten 27.

Get-together ssembly | Meeting point: Nidarosdommen at the north entrance. Doors opens at 18.45. Or you can meet outside the Rica Nidelven hotel at 18.35 and walk to the church (see map)

A concert with the newly restored Steimayerorgan in Nidarosdomen (The Nidaros Cathedral) and a reception in Erkebisbegården (The Archbishops palace), in the Great assembly hall from the 12th century.

Building our future with wood

The global CO2 footprint will be reduced if we build more in wood. UN’s climate panel concludes that building with wood results in a true climate gain. The Nordic area is rich in forest resources. In Norway we only utilize one third of the annual wood growth. There is a need of innovative and modern ways of the use of wood as a building material both on its own and together with other materials like concrete, steel, glass and stone. This challenges us to think in new ways all along the value chain; the forestry industry, the industry in general, the builders, the consultants and the contractors and developers. Someone has to take the lead….. some have already taken the first step.

Why do we use wood? Responsibility and the choice of values.

Parallell session 1A Excellence of wood | Works of others

Wooden architecture has strong traditions and a great potential for development and experimentation. To look ahead requires a critical eye on contemporary wooden architecture and knowledge on the potential of the material.

Parallell session 2A Excellence of wood | Small projects

Small projects are suitable for experimentation and new solutions for use of wood can be explored and looked into more thoroughly.
A good building nearing the end of an experimental process requires competence engagement and creativity all the way.

Parallell session 1B Frontiers of knowledge| Rehabilitation, densification and wood as building material

Urbanization leads to the growth of cities and the change of character of the building mass. We refurbish and densify. Wood and wood based solutions have many options. What will the wooden materials be in future built?

Parallell session 2B Frontiers of knowledge| Wood and climate

In future buildings more than half the energy and climate gas emissions will be related to the production of materials and components in the buildings. What are the competitive advantages concerning wood?

Parallell session 3B Past and future | Excursion to the ware houses along Kjøpmannsgata

The old ware houses have represented an essential environment in Trondheim for 1000 years. They represent a great challenge individually and as a whole. Great expectations from the owners demand adjustment for use and activity in a way that shall not reduce the historic qualities.

Activities in the exhibition hall

Activities in Kjøpmannsgata

Parallell session 3A Excellence of wood | Large projects

Wood as building material has historically been part of the common everyday life in Norway – being there in all connections. In a world where buildings grow steadily larger new ideas are needed which envisage the advantages of wood also in large constructions so wood again can mark the buildings and define our cities.

Parallell session 4A Excellence of wood | Competitions in wood - from sketch to finish (ENG)

Competition instigates innovation and new thinking. Some wood based projects will be realized and some will not. What is needed for wood to not only to be a winner on paper?

Parallell session 3B Frontiers of knowledge| Digital and industrial production

Construction is much about industrial and cost efficient fabrication of components and elements. Digitalizing of design and production processes are developing fast. What is happening up front at the cutting edge within this field and how are they succeeding.

Parallell session 4B Frontiers of knowledge| Building technology and solutions

The interest for large buildings is growing. Do we have the best technological solutions? What is critical, which solutions work and which need to be developed further.

Parallell session 3C Past and future of wood | Wood in education

There is a great need of qualified competence within handicraft and with special knowledge on old traditional building constructions, techniques and materials. How can historical and practical knowledge be transferred to the building processes of today. We look at different models of the education line from the secondary schools to the university.

Parallell session 4C Past and future of wood | Enthusiasm for wood

Many developers hesitate to use and build extensively with wood. Is it only about wood being economical and competitive, or is it about values and long term thinking and planning which lead to decisions to use wood?

Conclusion

Three days. 16 seminars. 24hours of talks. We have arrived. What have we learned? Are we any wiser? The moderators of the Forum Holzbau Nordic summarize.

Post-conference tour to Røros, a World Heritage Site

The management of a World Heritage Site requires strict rules on interventions and change to the built environment. The Building Conservation Centre at Røros offers specialized staff for repair work on historic timber structure, both at Røros and elsewhere.