PEFC Webinar: Building a circular economy with timber

Construction event

Alongside lowering carbon emissions, circularity is a key challenge for the global construction sector to address. Recognising the role that renewable, reusable and responsibly sourced wood can play in a circular economy, our annual webinar for built environment professionals aimed to illustrate how best use could be made of this valuable, natural resource.

We assembled a panel of three knowledgeable speakers, all passionate advocates of building with wood, to explain the background to the circular economy and timber’s place in it, responsible timber sourcing and how circular economy wood products could be incorporated at the design stage, so that they can go on to have second lives, continuing to lock away carbon long into the future.

Our first speaker was Charlie Law who heads up sustainability for Timber Development UK. He was followed by Mélanie Bourges, a timber engineer with Stora Enso. Our final speaker was Nick Elias a Senior Associate of Sydney-based firm Architectus. He presented a case study of a project which was designed with deconstruction in mind – the Macquarie University Incubator.

We were delighted that over 280 built environment professionals from more than 50 countries registered for the webinar, with over 140 choosing to join event live.