On the 7th of November 2024, a major conference co-hosted by Wood4Bauhaus took place in Brussels, titled Europe’s Wood Sector: Driving the Green and Digital Transition of the Built Environment. AEGIR co-hosted Session C, titled Innovative Building Products and Systems for Resource-Efficient, Circular Construction.
Project partners Vanesa Baño from InnovaWood and Javier Garcia Jaca from Tecnalia facilitated the session and presented an Overview of strategies and innovations in the European wood sector. Furthermore, Magdalena Zabek from TU Delft presented AEGIR’s work in a talk titled AEGIR: A Flexible Façade Renovation System Enhancing Energy Performance and Circularity.
The conference highlighted the vital role of the wood sector as a key driver of future competitiveness in housing and climate debate, encouraging greater recognition and support from the new EU Commission and EU Parliament. It showcases the latest state-of-the-art in building design with wood and how the public sector can support more biobased construction to combat climate change.
The conference was well attended by 170 participants. About 40 speakers contributed to keynotes, two panels and four parallel sessions. The audience included a broad range of stakeholders: European Commission staff, European, national and regional policy makers, industry representatives, clusters and researchers.
The event was co-hosted by Wood4Bauhaus , EFI Bioregions Facility, European wood policy platform (woodPoP), Holzcluster Steiermark GmbH, Bavarian Represent Representation to the EU. The conference was co-organised with support of the Horizon Europe project consortia, namely the NEB Academy Alliance, EcoReFibre, AEGIR, EUFORE, as well as digiNEB , (co-)funded by Horizon Europe, EU Science, Research and Innovation and Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) and its members.
