In his keynote Professor Jürgen Kropp (PIK), also coordinator of LOCALISED project, underlined the importance of local actions, especially in the construction sector which is causing a high share of emissions. Therefore, this sector plays a crucial role in archiving international climate goals.
The city of Potsdam as hosting municipality of the event is also very active in the field of timber construction; two examples were presented to the guests. Also, other German municipalities are already active in using either bio-based materials for construction and/or renovation or developing concepts for reusing materials in renovation processes. Bauhaus Earth team presented their experimental pavilion plans which will be made of timber and other bio-based materials in order to showcase them in Potsdam. The international guest brought in new perspectives and also ideas from traditional buildings and challenges they are facing in their countries as well as community approaches and concepts they have tested successfully.
Together participants started to exchange their experiences, started new cooperation and developing plans for urgent questions coming out of the group. All in all, the workshop figured out that challenges are very similar worldwide and peer-to-peer learning is very useful. Therefore, participants will stay in touch and plan further cooperation as well as mutual exchange.
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