Thursday, 30 March
10.00    Welcome Coffee in the exhibition area
10.45    Welcome Words: VILNIUS TECH, Forum Holzbau, and Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Lithuania
1st session BUILDING A FRAMEWORK
11.00    Timber Construction Policy Program in Lithuania. Dainius Čergelis, Ministry of Environment, Lithuania
11.30    Experiments and Experiences in Wood. Pekka Heikkinen, Aalto University, Finland
12.00    Trends and Guidelines for the Future of Timber Construction. Stefan Winter, TUM, Germany
12.30    Lunch
2nd session ADVANCED AND SAFE
14.00    How to Manage Fire-safety Design Requirements in Lithuania. Irina Demidova-Buizinienė, UAB ID PROJEKTAS,
              Lithuania
14.30    European Standards and Regulations for Fire Safety – Theory and practice. Jouni Hakkarainen, Eurofins Expert
              Services Oy, Finland
15.00    Dovetailed Massive Wood Board Elements for Multi-Story Buildings. Emre Ilgin, Tampere University, Finland
15.30    Coffee break in the exhibition area
3rd session FOLLOWING THE CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
16.00    Public Building in Timber Construction. Mikelis Putrams MADE arhitekti, Latvia
16.30    Architectural Concept and Technical Implementation of the Lithuanian EXPO Pavilion in Dubai. Edita
              Bružikaitė, Baukas Architects, Tomas Gečys, VILNIUS TECH, Lithuania
17.00    Sara Kulturhus Centre (World Architecture Festival 2022 award). Robert Schmitz, White Arkitekter, Sweden
17.30    Lithuanian Wooden Contemporary, Historic and Vernacular Architecture (exhibition opening).
Curators: Rūta Leitanaitė, Rasa Bertašiūtė, Dalė Puodžiukienė, Kristina Štaupaitė, Ingrida Veliūtė, Asta Raškevičiūtė; Architects' Association of Lithuania
18.00    Networking Aperitif in the exhibition area
19.00    Gala Dinner

Friday, 31 March
09.00    Welcome Coffee in the exhibition area
4th session CROSSING THE BORDERS
09.30    Preserving the Wooden City of Bergen – UNESCO World Heritage site. Erlend Hofstad, Vestland County
              Council, Norway
10.00    Infrastructure for Happiness. Teemu Kurkela, JKMM Architects, Finland
10.30    Interdisciplinary Approach and Timber Hybrid Structures. Edmond Saliklis, Cal Poly, USA
11.00    Coffee break in the exhibition area
5th session INTO THE RENOVATION
11.30    Circularity in Practice through Prefabricated Renovation. Kaarel Väer, Matek, Estonia
12.00    Serial Facade Prefabrication in Renovation. Targo Kalamees, TAL TECH, Estonia
12.30    Improving Rural Housing in Asia and Africa. Jacob Brandtberg Knudsen, the Royal Danish Academy, Denmark
13.00    Lunch
6th session. ON OPPORTUNITIES
14.00    Wood as Preferred Building Material in the Inner-city Environment at the Example London. Philipp
              Zumbrunnen, EURBAN United Kingdom
14:30    The Weissensee Quarter in Berlin. Iris Oelschlaeger and Christoph Deimel, DeO Deimel Oelschlaeger
              Architekten GmbH, Germany
15.00    WOOD - Diversity and simplicity. Jaakko Parkkonen, Helin & Co Architects, Finland
15.30    Discussion and closing remarks

4th FORUM WOOD BUILDING BALTIC 2023
DATE                                                30 – 31 march 2023                                                 
LOCATION                                       VILNIUS TECH UNIVERSITY, Saulėtekio al. 11, 10223 Vilnius (LT)
INFO, REGISTRATION                    http://forumholzbau.com/baltic/Registration.php