Wood in healthy and sustainable construction (5 ECTS)

When: August 2019

Where: Espoo, Finland

Wood has been used for millennia to build shelters and remains one of our most versatile structural materials. In recent years, wood has been enjoying something of a renaissance as a construction material and there are a growing number of examples of the use of wood in multi-storey buildings. Wood is seen as an ecological material, with the potential to lower the impact of buildings - through the substitution of energy-intensive materials and through its ability to store carbon.  The structural properties of wood are relatively well understood, but the role that it can play in helping to mitigate climate change, to passively reduce energy consumption and in promoting the wellbeing of building occupants is rather less well understood. This course will provide an overview of how the inherent properties of wood can be used to good effect to create a more sustainable built environment.

The course will comprise a series of inspiring lectures from leading academics and experts in the field of building with wood, together with workshops, technical training sessions and project work. 

This course will be of interest primarily to postgraduate students of architecture, civil and structural engineering, materials engineering as well as wood science and technology, who are studying the role of wood in the built environment. The course will also be of interest to professionals involved in building construction and allied industries.

Course outline

School: Chemical Engineering, Aalto University

Department: Bioproducts and Biosystems

Level of study: Postgraduate

ECTS: 5

Responsible professor: Mark Hughes (mark.hughes [at] aalto [dot] fi)