TIMBER AND CLIMATE RESILIENCE FORUM

CONFERENCE TRACKS AND TOPICS

The tracks are based on the conviction that building design—including timber construction—is a multidisciplinary, systems-based approach. Architecture, fire safety, and building physics are tools for building climate resilience: they ensure environmental quality and directly influence health, comfort, and safety.

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ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

Timber buildings offer exceptional qualities and opportunities to create beauty, sustainability, and inclusion.

Buildings with energy: Unique properties of wood as a construction material.
TCC – timber buildings with thermal mass
Prefabrication and industrialized construction: panelization, modularity, and logistics
Digital timber construction: BIM-to-fabrication, CNC, scanning, and “digital twins” for timber buildings
Mid-rise and high-rise timber buildings
Timber in building renovation and retrofit.
Timber in individual residential construction.

Fire design height limits for timber buildings worldwide and in Slovakia
How photovoltaics and electromobility are changing fire protection in timber buildings
Modern approaches to fire safety design for timber buildings
Designing fire resistance for exposed timber and connections

FIRE SAFETY

Let’s bring Slovakia closer to European standards for fire protection and the permitted building height of timber buildings.

BUILDING PHYSICS

Timber buildings are sensitive to building physics and require expert, responsible design and responsible execution.

Timber construction is sensitive to building physics. That’s not a myth.
Moisture, durability, and condensation risk management within the assembly
Vapor barriers vs. vapor retarders and vapor-open assemblies
Thermal mass and time lag—or a short response time?
Windows and doors in timber buildings
Acoustics in timber buildings

Extreme weather impacts: Climate resilience is a security discipline.
Adaptation: Energy security for residential buildings
Protection from the sun
Mitigation: Carbon neutrality of timber buildings
Renewable energy sources
Flood protection for timber buildings
Green finance

CLIMATE RESILIENCE

The fundamental priority of adaptation is safety, climate resilience, and a sustainable future.

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

The goal of design is to ensure a high-quality living environment for people, including temperature, daylight, air quality, and acoustics.

Indoor environmental quality: Heat, Quiet, Light, Air
Blue-green infrastructure: Indoor environmental quality starts around the building
Ventilation with heat recovery: air quality with energy savings
TABS: Radiant heating and cooling
HVAC systems in timber buildings

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