Wood Day: A Sustainable and Local Construction Material

The development, planning and execution of buildings are hot topics in the sustainability debate and wood as a construction material has gained a lot of attention therein. Wood is a material with a rich history in Västerbotten and still of great importance in the local industry.

April 12th, Umeå School of Architecture invites to a full day dedicated to wood. Four different lectures will look into wood from the perspective of sustainable and healthy construction and give an insight to the material from a local perspective, using built examples. The lectures will be held in English. Markus Aerni, Architect from Stockholm, recurrent lecturer at KTH School of Architecture and co-founder of Happyspace Architecture will present the lecturers and moderate the discussions.

Please note that Andreas Falk's planned lecture at 9.00 is cancelled due to illness. The following us the updated schedule. 

Schedule:

10:00 Introduction by Markus Aerni & Maria Block

An introduction to the theme: wood as construction materia and its uses through history with the moderator and first lecturer of the Wood Day. 

10:30 Maria Block on "Building Sustainable and Healthy in Wood"

Specific solutions of Maria’s own work, including Lusthusbacken in Piteå, nominated for the building of the year by Årets bygge 2019. Maria Block runs Blockarkitektkontor, specialised in sustainable, healthy- and chemical free construction. She is co-author of the book The Whole Building Handbook together with Varis Bokalders.

13:00 Kenneth Eriksson on "Specialvirkesföretag S-trä: From Harvesting to Building a House"

Kenneth introduces craft production by sharing his experience with manufacturing houses at the small building company S-trä Specialvirke. He will show the whole process, from harvesting the wood to the finished house. Kenneth Eriksson is a student in Year 2 of the Architecture programme at Umeå School of Architecture. During the last 14 years he has worked in the production of timber houses for Specialvirkesföretag S-trä.

14:00 Daniel Wilded on "Systems and Production from Martinsons"

Daniel will continue with the production and fabrication of wood systems and components by showing the work of the large family company Martinsons. Daniel is Product Manager for building systems in wood, glum and cross laminated wood at Martinsons. Martinsons is Sweden's largest family owned glulam and CLT producer and the region´s leading company in wooden bridges and construction systems with solid wood.