The Build-in-Wood
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An internatioanl community of wood construction.

BASIC PROJECT DATA

Duration:

09/2019-08/2023

Total budget: 10 Mio. €

EU funding: 8.6 Mio. €

EU-project for sustainable timber construction

Build-in-Wood is a European funded Horizon 2020 project with the goal of drastically increasing the proportion of timber construction. With the urban population steadily growing and climate change becoming a pressing topic, our challenge is to offer high-quality, affordable and environmentally friendly housing.

Green Building is the future: Timber is such an attractive material because it has a low carbon footprint, uses little energy and water and is 100% renewable from sustainably managed forests.

The wooden path to climate neutrality

We need to strategically lower our emissions by:

shifting to renewable materials
developing new technologies
creating international environment standards

The Construction Industry is currently responsible for 35% of total greenhouse gas emissions* produced by global economic activities.

Wood as the only truly renewable building material needs to become the new standard. As every new-grown m³ of wood binds a full ton of CO2, wood as such is not only climate-neutral, but climate-positive.

*Hurmekoski, E. 2017. How can wood construction reduce environmental degradation? European Forest Institute

We want to make wood a natural choice of building material for the construction of multi-storey buildings

Build-in-Wood Consortium

About the Project

It is our ambition to make optimized and cost effective wood construction methods common practice in the European construction sector.

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Why wood is key

Timber is such an attractive material because it has a lower carbon footprint, uses less energy and water and is 100% renewable from sustainably managed forests.

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Early Adopter Cities

Selected European Cities will take a leading role in the project to intensify the use of wood in both, their urban core and surrounding municipalities.

Our Cities

At DTI, we’re proud to coordinate Build-in-Wood – a highly ambitious consortium full of enthusiasm and innovation. Build-in-Wood will help unlock the significant potential for forest-based products to decrease the CO2 emissions of the construction sector.