Building the Future
Lectures given at the 2019 Marcus Wallenberg Prize Symposium held in Stockholm on October 8, 2019.
Moderator: Prof. Joris Van Acker, Member of the Prize Selection Committee, Ghent University, Laboratory of Wood Technology, Belgium
Welcome and Opening Remarks – Mr. Marcus Wallenberg, Chairman of the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation
Introduction – The Building Material of the Future
Ms. Jessika Szyber, Business Development Manager, Stora Enso, Stockholm, Sweden
Cross Laminated Timber: From Research to Application
Prof. Gerhard Schickhofer, Recipient of the 2019 Marcus Wallenberg Prize, Institute of Timber Engineering and Wood Technology at Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
Opportunities with CLT: Fuelling the Construction Revolution
Mr. Anthony Thistleton, Founding Director, Waugh Thistleton Architects, London, United Kingdom
Harvesting the Maximum Engineering Benefits from CLT
Mr. Paul Fast, Founder, Fast + Epp, Vancouver, Canada
Challenges and Opportunities of Using Wood as Building Material
Mrs. Silvia Melegari, Secretary General, European Organisation of the Sawmill Industry (EOS), Brussels, Belgium
Sustainable and Healthy Urban Living by Wood
Prof. Katja Lähtinen, Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE), Helsinki, Finland
Questions and Answers – Speakers interact with the audience
Moderated by Prof. Joris Van Acker
