“The HiBiWood project promotes
environmentally friendly, sustainable, high-performance building
solutions in wood. In the near future timber buildings will form a much
bigger part of the European and international built environment. In the
future sustainable high-performance buildings in wood will be designed
and constructed with environmentally friendly wood components, but some
amount of steel and concrete construction materials will still remain to
satisfy structural, fire prevention, moisture absorption and economic
requirements. Using the combination of wood, concrete and steel will
provide sustainable solutions to building structures as well as
potential to improve building performance and design.
Architects and engineers
have already started designing high-performance modern wooden
buildings. However, now higher education of designers and engineers
mostly focuses on steel and concrete buildings, and sometimes on
low-rise wooden buildings. In order to satisfy the needs of the
employment market, it is necessary to prepare students with innovative
applied skills in the area of design, construction and onsite
construction management of high-performance building construction in
wood. To educate a new generation of students, it is necessary to
develop and integrate an innovative multi-disciplinary BSc/BA study
module.
Project HiBiWood aims to fulfill the
future demands in higher education of students in sustainable,
high-performance building construction in wood by transnational and
trans-disciplinary innovative student-centered learning approaches.”
https://www.hibiwood.eu