How can we start using more timber in urban environments to provide sustainable and affordable housing to our citizens?
This is the question an Early Adopter City Workshop focusses on.
After the in-depth analysis of the contextual city questionnaire and over 15 local stakeholder questionnaires, Urbasofia (Consortium partner) developed the concept for Copenhagen’s first Early Adopter City workshop: shedding light on challenges, possibilities and the path for more sustainable urban construction. The city of Copenhagen is the second one in the project to host their workshop.
Altogether about 30 people took part in the workshop (7 attendees in person at DTI [Danish Technological Institute] headquarters + over 20 attendees digitally via MS Teams). The workshop was divided into various sections, including:
the presentation of the Build-in-Wood project by Anders Kjellow from DTI
Catharina Winberg from the city Counsel of Växjö in Sweden speaking about how they managed to achieve a "timber" rate of 48% in 2020 in all new public construction
Representatives of the City of Copenhagen, explaining current climate initiatives and the city’s goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2025
Inputs and discussions guided by Sabina Leopa from Urbasofia, open discussion and Q&A
Sabina Leopa addressed a general issue we keep facing regarding acceptance and regulations of timber construction:
“You need a critical mass in order to convince people. But you need to convince people, in order to get a critical mass.”
The official workshop with presentations was followed by an open discussion between:
Project Coordinator DTI
By & Havn
the Danish Transport, Construction and Housing Authority
KAB Bolig
the City of Copenhagen