Wood First is a digital training program designed to support Swedish municipalities and regions in developing, updating, or following up on timber construction strategies or roadmaps for climate-neutral building.

The program is divided into three sessions:

1. Initiate – Increase knowledge and create momentum. This session aims to initiate the work of developing a cross-departmental strategy/model to increase timber construction in the municipality by enhancing knowledge about timber building, its societal benefits, municipal authority, and creating links to future work.
2. Concretize – Deepen knowledge and begin strategic work. This session provides in-depth knowledge about the municipal conditions for steering towards increased timber construction, identifying key factors in the process, and available municipal tools.
3. Collaborate – Receive input and anchor the municipality's/region's draft. This session aims to gather input on and anchor the municipality's draft strategy/model outside the municipal organization and create a collaboration platform for implementation.

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Learning Objectives

• Understand how to develop and implement a municipal timber construction strategy.
• Gain knowledge of the technical conditions for timber construction and life cycle assessment (LCA).
• Learn about governance and facilitation of timber construction within planning, exploitation, building permit, and procurement processes.
• Explore the "Triple Helix" model for collaboration between industry, academia, and public sector.

Effort

8 - 12 hours

Format

Self-paced online course

For whom?

Municipal and regional officials, urban planners, policymakers, and others involved in strategic planning for sustainable construction.

Provider

Trästad Sverige, in collaboration with WSP Advisory, Linköping University, and RISE.

Prerequisites

Basic understanding of municipal planning and construction processes.

Hub

North

Topic

Bio-based