Building homes in wood is one of the most impactful ways to take climate action and protect forests.

HOME for the future

HOME for the future stimulates the use of sustainable wood in social housing to decarbonise, protect biodiversity and support responsible forest management.

Building a positive future in timber homes for people and forests.

 

Our goals for the social housing sector

Forests & HOME for the future

Building homes in wood is an impactful way to take climate action and protect forests. How? The demand for certified timber assigns greater value to forests, creating further incentives for restoration and forests certification.

Forests provide society with a wide range of benefits, from reliable flows of clean water to productive soil and carbon sequestration. In FSC-certified forests, valuable ecosystem services are protected.

Our Activities

  • Expand LCA data

    We stimulate the use of timber in social housing by facilitating new and improved Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) data for frequently used timber products in the construction sector. The data will be accessible through the national enviromental databases in the Netherlands and Denmark.

  • Redefine value

    We lobby for the integration of full sustainability aspects such as biodiversity, circularity and stored carbon in environmental impact calculations, in order to evaluatie the true impact of the use of building materials.

  • Building with wood course

    We developed a 2-day course for Dutch social housing corporations to increase their knowledge on building with timber. The course modules vary from fire safety, to acoustics, contracting, total cost of ownership (TCO) and more.

  • Capacity building

    To close the knowledge gap on constructing with timber, we build a network of ambassadors in the social housing sector. It takes different stakeholders to make changes in the traditional ways of building. Join us!

  • Educate future generations

    In a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) TU Delft will join forces with VIA University College and Lister Buildings to make the knowledge on building with timber openly accessible for future project leaders.

Join us

HOME for the future is a consortium is FSC Netherlands and Denmark, Centrum Hout, Lister Buildings, TBI Woonlab, TU Delft and VIA University College. We are always looking to expand the list for collaborators in the social housing sector to take building with timber to the next level.

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Using certified wood in our homes is one of the most impactful ways to decarbonise and protect forests.

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