Wood in Circle

19/01/2023

Final Transnational Project Meeting took place at RTU, Riga, Latvia on the 28th of September. Meeting aimed at summarizing achieved results and scheduling of the remaining works. Partners used Impact+ Exercise to assess project impacts. Evaluation revealed that the project had large-scale impacts at individual (teachers, students), organisational and national/regional levels.

Many thanks to RTU for hosting the meeting!

19/01/2023

On the second day findings of research on circular wooden construction were disseminated to academic community, students and other stakeholders. Among other presentations, Jari Komsi and Anu Nordlund presented a case study on urban and social regeneration of Mainiemi Mill area in Finland. Jurgis Bulins -student who participated in the intensive learning courses presented feedback and insights on added value of the project from students’ perspective.

19/01/2023

After the Conference a visit to Getlini EKO – a company established jointly by the municipalities of the city of Riga and the municipality of Ropaži (previously Stopiņi), which manages the largest municipal solid waste landfill in the Baltic States – “Getliņi” was organized for project partners. The landfill is one of the most modern in Europe, it is currently being built and developed as a modern and safe waste processing center, using circular economy principles in its activities.

19/01/2023

An international two-days Dissemination Conference took place in Riga, Latvia, on 29th-30th September 2022. To attract more participants and to achieve wider impact, the Conference was organized as a Special Section of the 63rd International Scientific Conference of Riga Technical University. The Conference was attended by 105 participants from 19 countries.

The main purpose of the Conference was to disseminate intellectual outputs to teachers/researchers not included to partnership, educational authorities and stakeholders (associations and business enterprises, working in construction sector) at international level. The programme of the Conference was divided into two days.

The first day of the conference was dedicated to presentation of the new methodological framework, e-learning course and e-learning platform. The Conference was opened by Martins Auders from Department of Housing Policy, Ministry of Economics, Latvia and Prof Ineta Geipele (RTU).

06/10/2022

The second transnational Intensive teaching and learning course - Scheme Design and Detail 1 Phases of the project Back to the Future - Building with Sustainable Local Traditional Materials (Back2Future) took place in Kaunas Technical university, in Lithuania. Our students from Vilnius Tech, Civil engineering faculty also participated in a two-week training course. Great experience working in international teams and gaining new experience.

26/09/2022

Wonderful project of wood:
Wikkelhouse is designed and developed by the good people of Fiction Factory, a company of creative makers from Amsterdam. Since 1989 we build exceptional interiors, fair stands and furniture for a worldwide audience. And now we make houses too. Because we want to. Because we can. And because we believe that we can build a 100% biodegradable house.

For more information on Fiction Factory please visit
https://www.fictionfactory.nl/en/wikkelhouse/:

A special little house, made out of cardboard. Sustainably built to last. And suit all your needs.

16/09/2022

Darnu Group, one of the largest real estate (RT) management and development companies in Lithuania, initiated an architectural competition for renovation and conversion of the area of ​​the business complex "Verslo trikampis" in Vilnius. The most experienced architectural companies of Lithuania submitted 9 visions to the competition, which was organized by the Union of Lithuanian Architects. One of them is work in WOODEN TOWN
Here, wood is used in the proposed architectural solutions as a material with unique aesthetic properties, a means of expressing the compositional ideas of the work - the quarter. In this case, the exterior and interior spaces of the buildings are modeled from wood. Yes, buildings from other materials are more complexly formed, as if dressed in a more expressive, artistically effective outfit.

The architectural harmony of the quarter allows the use of wood as a structure and decoration in a wide variety of architectural typologies, thus searching for and discovering new images and forms of wooden buildings. The architectural solutions of the complex are characterized by functional adaptability, which paves the way for the developers of the block to model and change the purpose of use if necessary. Buildings of wooden constructions are characterized by the fact that they can be quickly and easily built, transformed and reconstructed, they are also resistant to various climatic effects.
Source:

Neišnaudoto potencialo Vilniaus teritorijai patyrę Lietuvos architektai pateikė įspūdingų vizijų. STRUCTUM - portalas apie architektūrą, urbanistiką, dizainą, inžineriją, pramonę, statybą, infrastruktūrą.

11/09/2022

An interesting and intensive international training course is taking place in the Technical University of Catalonia Barcelona, Spain, according to the Erasmus + project "Design and Construction of Environmental High Performance Hybrid Engineered Timber Buildings" (HybridTim) on 4 - 17 of September. Here is the students group from Vilnius Tech also participating and gaining knowledge and practice in wooden constructions.

07/06/2022

Meeting took place on the 4th of June in Palermo, Italy. Partners have discussed progress and upcoming works as well as started planning the conference in Riga.

Many thanks to UNIPA for hosting the meeting!

07/06/2022

Joint activities improved competences of students and teachers and helped to promote circular economy and sustainable construction. We are very thankful to Italian colleagues for their hospitality and positive impressions!

07/06/2022

During the 2nd intensive “Wood in Circle” training course the technical visit was organized to the company “Gaspare Mirrione Legnami”. Students and teachers were introduced to the sustainable construction of timber houses in Sicily and had an opportunity to visit the site and prefabrication factory.

07/06/2022

Second international “Wood in Circle” course for students took place in Sicily, Italy on the 30th May –5th of June. The course was hosted by UNIPA – University of Palermo. It was focused on life cycle assessment of timber building. Students and teachers from universities of Lithuania, Latvia, Finland and Italy participated in the course.