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Thank you !

The entire team at Institut technologique FCBA, FPInnovations and the Building Research Institute thank you for your participation to the WOODRISE congress! After this successful event, we are happy to thank over 2,500 participants over the 4 days of the event: among those, more than 110 companies were present through private booths or delegations and some 50 speakers made speeches. In addition, Bordeaux definitely became the international capital of wood, with 23 countries represented. We should mention the size of the Canada, Japan, Belgium, Brazil, Spain and Switzerland delegations, but also participants from Kuwait and China! We would also like to thank our relay partners who followed us and helped us to promote WOODRISE; we counted over 650tweets on the event and around 10,000 visits on the website in September.

Woodrise Paper

Le WOODRISE Paper, un journal présentant les bonnes pratiques internationales du développement du bois dans la construction, a été édité pour l'édition Woodrise. Vous n'avez pas pu le lire ? Vous pourrez retrouver le pdf sur notre site : WOODRISE Paper, a journal presenting international best practices for wood development in the construction industry, has been edited for the Woodrise edition. You couldn't read it ? You can find the pdf version on our website: > Woodrise Paper

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The rise of wood

« Like a tree that grows and rises up towards light, building with wood offers multi-storey buildings the opportunity to rise higher and higher.

Edito

For the last 3 or 4 years, promotors, architects, engineers, and builders from various countries have engaged in the design and construction of buildings from 6 to 20 storeys. They have demonstrated that the benefits of using wood extend beyond architectural achievement; wood can be adapted to various projects in an efficient and sustainable manner to enhance mechanical and acoustic properties, and fire resistance.

Due to the growing number of environmental concerns of governments around the world, and the potential offered by optimizing the wood resource, three key players in international wood construction, FCBA in France, FPInnovations in Canada and Building Research Institute in Japan, in collaboration with ADIVbois, have decided to organize the first world congress on high-rise and residential wood buildings, WOODRISE, in Bordeaux on September 12 to 15, 2017.

We look forward to seeing you in Bordeaux. »

Organisators

INSTITUT TECHNOLOGIQUE FCBA (France)

Technological resource for the forest, wood, construction and furniture sectors, with a mission to promote innovation and technical progress and to contribute to the improvement of industry’s productivity and quality by encouraging an integrated approach and implementation of synergies within the sector.

FPINNOVATIONS (Canada)

One of the world’s largest private scientific research centres, which comprises more than 525 employees working in research laboratories located in Québec, Montréal and Vancouver. It acts as a catalyst for the transformation of the forest sector by gathering members from the private sector along with colleges, universities and provincial and federal governments.

Building Research Institute (Japan)

The Building Research Institute (BRI) is a public research institute managed as a National Research and Development Agency. It was established to bring sound and orderly development to the housing, building and urban community by enhancing various technologies related to housing, building and urban planning. To fulfill this purpose, the BRI has been mainly conducting R&D (research and development) and international training programs on seismology and earthquake engineering.

ADIVBOIS (France)

Association pour le Développement des Immeubles à Vivre Bois, created in 2014, is supporting the New Industrial France plan as part of the Industry of the Future: Smart Cities focus.