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International Timber Construction Forum 2025 in Innsbruck
The International Timber Construction Forum is visiting Austria this year. The international wood industry will meet in Innsbruck from December 3rd to 5th, 2025. We have the program highlights.
International Timber Construction Forum 2025 in Innsbruck
The program for the IHF 2025 in the Innsbruck Congress Center is ready. This allows the scheduling of the international timber construction meeting at the end of the year to be made more concrete. Finally, the IHF is always linked to a number of working group and club meetings and other gatherings.
The conference program follows the tried and tested IHF format. Overall, there will be more discussion this year. And the topics of material reuse and circular designs have noticeably gained space.
Highlights of the conference program
The start on Wednesday, December 3rd (topic housing industry) with discussion and subsequent five parallel prologues (architecture; AI and automation in prefabricated construction; renovation of existing buildings; connection technology; wood policy platform “Woodpop”) will be followed by the two-day IHF core forum on Thursday, December 4th and Friday, December 5th.
With regard to the circular economy, please note the IHF prologues 1 and 3 on Wednesday, the lectures on recyclable ceiling systems and bonding in the lecture block “Wooden construction development” on Thursday and the discussion forum 1 (“Circular planning and building”) afterwards. Also on the IHF epilogue, which, among other things, about circular wood system construction in Japan.
The opening lectures at the start of the IHF on Thursday will be given by Kai-Uwe Bergmann from the New York planning office Bjarke Ingels Group (“Nature, craftsmanship, structure”) and Sebastian Schels from the project developer Ratisbona in Regensburg (“Unsealing begins in the head”).
This year, the IHF guest lecture before the honoring of deserving personalities and the joint dinner on Thursday will be given by Christoph M. Schneider from the Economica Institute for Economic Research. Topic: The USA under Trump and the effects on Europe's economy.
On Friday, December 5th, projects from the areas of timber engineering construction (Block A), hall construction (B) and multi-storey construction (C) will be presented as usual in four parallel lecture series (A to D). This time, Block A is about constructions exposed to the weather: wooden bridges, grandstands and the Swiss wooden bull “Muni Max”. In Block D, the Technical University of Munich is once again offering an interesting discussion forum that deals with the actual climate protection potential of timber construction. The final IHF epilogue on Friday afternoon provides, among other things: a look back at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka.
Forum Holzbau, the organizer, is expecting around 2,400 participants at the congress.
The complete program and registration form can be found on the IHF events page.
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About the wood construction forum
Forum Holzbau or Forum Holz is a joint platform of the Aalto University School of Science and Technology Helsinki (FI), the Bern University of Applied Sciences (CH), the Technical University of Rosenheim (DE), the Technical University of Munich (DE), the Technical University of Vienna (AT) and the University of Northern British Columbia (CA). In Italy we cooperate closely with the Università di Trento.
The aim and task of the association is to promote the use of wood in construction; surplus funds are used in the spirit of the wood industry to support research and development projects by students.
Further information: www.forum-holzbau.com
