Construction working group

Chairmanship: Dieter Lechner (Austrian federation)

CEI-Bois Advisers: Ward Vervoort, François Sougnez

 Target

  • Long term agenda: to improve the position of wood in structural and decorative use against other materials
  • Short term agenda: to pro-reactively influence decision making through a true European network

Focus areas

  • Focus on horizontal standardization work and competing materials
  • Focus on European level harmonization work to simplify the use of wood in structural/decorative end-uses

Actions

  • Act/React properly on EU policy instruments (legislation, standardisation, labelling, certification, public procurement, R&D)
  • Coordinate European standardisation (define industry position, e.g. Eurocodes, CEN TC 350, 351)
  • EU R&D programmes, especially to support the standardisation process (standardisation related research)