Woodrise 2025
Program at a Glance

The housing crisis in some countries is calling on governments to find solutions to build smarter, faster, and better, and climate change is calling for all necessary measures to promote sustainable and resilient cities.  

This session addresses these challenges and presents policies involving wood to create the communities of tomorrow. 

It is essential that business leaders come up with innovative and sustainable solutions to build faster and better to ensure that our cities are better adapted to climate changes and that livable, affordable housing is accessible for the next generations. 

This plenary highlights the roles and responsibilities of business leaders and investors in enabling sustainable solutions to build resilient cities and affordable housing faster. 

The construction industry is constantly evolving. The evolution of mass timber is adding new wood solutions to those already available such as wood-frame construction.  

This session explores real-world examples of projects, techniques and technologies with construction professionals using mass timber and other wood-based building systems around the world to build better, faster and cheaper using wood materials.