Woodrise 2022

Sustainable Building Conference, with a keynote by PIK Director Emeritus John Schellnhuber
  • When Sep 06, 2022 07:00 AM to Sep 09, 2022 08:00 PM (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
  • Where Portorož (Slovenia), Congress Center Bernardin
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The Woodrise 2022 conference is considered an important conference for modern sustainable construction. The event is organized by InnoRenew CoE and the University of Primorska. Woodrise 2022 will take place from September 6th to 9th, 2022 in Portorož, Slovenia.

Woodrise 2022 will welcome international experts in multi-storey timber construction to the Slovenian coast to present the latest architectural and technical developments in the industry. The conference will highlight issues advocated by the European Green Deal and the New European Bauhaus. The speakers will discuss the renovation, refurbishment and restoration of existing buildings using timber construction technologies.

Practical examples of sustainable building from all over the world will be presented at the conference. Keynote speakers include PIK Director Emeritus Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, a thought leader behind the development of the New European Bauhaus; Julian Anderson, Director of 55 Southbank Boulevard Melbourne, Australia's first CLT high rise hotel; Bruno Dujić, director of CBE, a Slovenian company; Luis Jorge, manager of the renovation of the Portuguese Hotel Mondegro; Matthew Eastwood, architect; and Stefan Winter from Aalto University.

Before the keynotes, participants have the opportunity to discover achievements from important research projects in timber construction such as DynaTTB, ClickDesign and Pharaon. Following the keynotes, interested parties can participate in thematic workshops to get detailed information about the latest developments on key properties of high-performance timber construction.

Registration via the conference website: https://woodrise2022.eu/registration/