Project
Sustainable, environmentally friendly high-performance hybrid timber building construction is at the heart of the HiHTC project. In the near future timber buildings will form a much bigger part of the EU and international built environment. Timber buildings will be designed and constructed with sustainable, high-performance engineered timber components, but some amount of steel and concrete construction materials will remain to satisfy structural, fire prevention, moisture absorption and economic requirements. Combining wood, concrete and steel will provide sustainable solutions to building structures improve building performance and design. Also, the project promotes cultural diversity and shapes professional life and society, as work environments are increasingly involve internationally networking.
Project aims to fulfill the future demands in higher education of students in sustainable, high-performance hybrid timber building construction by transnational and trans-disciplinary innovative student-centered learning approaches dealing with changes and solving innovative complex problems will promote and strengthen global learning.
Objectives:
– To develop and deliver new international trans-disciplinary module on sustainable, high-performance hybrid timber building construction, which meets the needs of the HEIs and
employment market representatives. An internationalized curriculum will enable the students participating in the project to develop global perspectives in global environmental issues
and think across cultures.
– To improve competencies of students/teachers in problem solving and team work, innovative thinking, motivation, awareness of cross-professional project input and project
management by using Project Based Learning (PBL), learning by doing and blended learning approaches.
– To educate all participants (students, teachers, entrepreneurs) in the field of the sustainable, high-performance hybrid timber building construction.
– To ensure open awareness of the project results to local, national, EU level and international target groups.
Project context:
Project Title: Sustainable, High-Performance Hybrid Timber Building Construction
Project Acronym: HiHTC
Project Start Date: 2020-09-01
Project Total Duration: 36 months
Project End Date: 2023-08-31
Main objective of the project: Innovation, Sustainability, Transdisciplinary, Project Based Learning Methodology
Partners
Université Lyon 1 Claude Bernard
UCBL, Lyon, France
Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University
Contact:
Sophie Busi
+33472692131
Sophie.busi@univ-lyon1.fr
Project Team:
Sophie Busi
Project Coordinator /
IUT Erasmus+ Academic Coordinator
Cinzia Cecchetto
Project Assistant – Erasmus Office
Cécile Grazide
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Sustainable Construction
Emmanuel Ferrier
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Sustainable Construction
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), created from a merger in 1971, is a multidisciplinary university providing teaching for more than 47,000 students every year in the fields of sciences, technology, health, and sport. More than 10% are foreign students from 140 countries. About 10,000 students graduate each year. There are about 4,800 staff of which almost 2,800 teaching staff and faculty members and a budget of 421 million Euros (Annual Report 2018). With a constantly increasing number of students, UCBL developed internal resources in order to respond to the European objectives of inclusive universities.
Lyon 1 is focusing on both fundamental and applied research: it has 79 state-funded research units working in three main fields, health, environment and material technologies. A certain number of these units are the result of the association of several laboratories into research clusters. These collective structures have a much wider field of expertise and access to higher performance research tools. UCBL is ranked amon gth e10 first French universities on the Shangai ranking 2020 and 2nd in the Reuters ranking for innovation in 2019. It is the 2nd most important university regarding the number of patents filed in 2020.
The University Institute of Technology (IUT) created in 1967 is spread over 3 campuses : Villerubanne Doua, Villeurbanne Gratte-ciel and Bourg-en-Bresse. It has become one faculty of UCBL, and includes about 5500 students, 15 schools all specialised in Technolgy, Engineering, Science and Business, among which is the Civil engineering School. There about 38 lecturers and 400 students in Civil Engineering, all undergraduate, with a pratical approach of education. Some students can be apprentices on the final year of their study with partner companies. There are also 2 labs, one of them called LMC2 is specialised in hybrid concrete solutions for construction and involved in national and international construction projects.
Tallinna Tehnikakõrgkool
TKK UAS, Tallinn, Estonia
TTK University of Applied Sciences
Contact:
Karin Lellep
+3726664549
karin.lellep@tktk.ee
Project Team:
Karin Lellep
Project Coordinator
Lecturer
Institute of Civil Engineering
Martti Kiisa
Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs
Professor
Institute of Civil Engineering
Leena Paap
Lecturer
Institute of Civil Engineering
Pille Hamburg
Lecturer
Institute of Civil Engineering
Egert-Ronald Parts
Lecturer
Institute of Civil Engineering
Lauri Peetrimägi
Lecturer
Institute of Civil Engineering
Politechnika Gdańska,
GdańskTech, Gdańsk, Poland
Gdańsk University of Technology
Contact:
Justyna Borucka
+48583472315
Justyna.borucka@pg.edu.pl
Project Team:
Justyna Borucka
Project Coordinator /
Assist Professor, Faculty of Architecture
Vice-Dean for Development and Internationalization
Robert Jankowski
Professor, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Rafał Janowicz
Professor, Faculty of Architecture
Marcin Szczepański
Assist Professor, Faculty of Architecture
Emilia Miszewska
Lecturer, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Tomasz Zybała
Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture
Joanna Wojtas
Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture
Szymon Kowalski
PhD student, Doctoral School
Gdańsk University of Technology is the largest technical university in the Pomeranian Region and one of the oldest technical universities in Poland. The first inauguration of the academic year took place on 4th October 1904. The university was established in Gdansk, a city with a historical tradition of over 1000 years and Poland’s largest maritime, cultural and scientific centre.
The university employs over 2600 staff, including nearly 1200 academic teachers (113 titular professors, 165 associate professors and 651 assistant professors). One measure of the university’s achievements in research and development is the yearly contribution of over 2000 publications, of which nearly 300 appear in the world’s most renowned scientific journals on the ISI list and more than 40 are scientific monographs and academic textbooks.
Gdańsk Tech provides its students with vast access to information resources localized in specialist departmental computing laboratories, as well as two open laboratories in the Information Technology Centre. Gdańsk Tech is home to the Information Academic Computer Centre in Gdańsk (CI TASK). The university has been awarded the ECTS label – an international certificate of quality of the study programme which confirms that the study programme of all fields of study is aimed at strengthening practical competence of students. Only 28 universities in Europe possess such a certificate.
Kauno Technikos Kolegija,
KTK, Kaunas, Lithuania
Kaunas University of Applied Engineering Sciences
Contact:
Rosita Norvaišienė
+37060300508
rosita.norvaisiene@edu.ktk.lt
Project Team:
Rosita Norvaišienė
Project Coordinator in KTK
Assoc.Prof., Department of Civil Engineering
Researcher, Building Physics Laboratory of Institute of Architecture and Construction
Raimondas Šadzevičius
Assoc. Prof., Department of Civil Engineering
Mintautas Tamošiūnas
Department of Civil Engineering
Lukas Šatrauskas
Department of Civil Engineering
Mindaugas Kuklierius
Department of Civil Engineering
Kauno technikos kolegija / University of Applied Engineering Sciences (KTK) is well-known in the market of education of Lithuania as educational institution that is creatively working,
open to innovations, harmonious team and training engineering specialists, who are able to work in changing environment. Its beginning goes back to 1920, when the first Kaunas
Higher Technical School was founded. It was the first educational institution, training engineering specialists in the independent Lithuania.
Study and Consulting Center,
SCC, Vilnius, Lithuania
Study and Consulting Center
Contact:
Roger Howard Taylor
+370060085175
rhtaylor54@gmail.com
Project Team:
Roger Howard Taylor
Project Coordinator
Senior Lecturer, SCC
Vijoleta Sulciene
Architect
Lecturer, SCC
Mindaugas Krutinis
Lecturer
Assoc. Prof.
Web-developer, SCC
Simona Krasauskienė
Lecturer, SCC
Laimutė Narbutienė
SCC
Study and Consulting Center (SCC) was founded in Lithuania in 2010 as a non-profit enterprise and has a team of 10 lecturers and young workers participating in international programmes and activities. The staff has wide experience of participation in international education through organizing multidisciplinary workshops (using Project Based Learning methodology) with international HEIs in and outside Europe involving not only lecturers, but also professionals (engineers, managers, architects, architectural technologists). Development activities of SCC staff are dedicated to meet the needs of the EU labor market and enterprises.
The aim of SCC is to support the education on sustainable development of engineers, managers, architects, architectural technologists through workshops, providing with professional and innovative knowledge in the field of technology, sustainability and management. The vision of the company is to work with reputable, international, professional technical educations, specializing mainly in applied technology, built environment and sustainability.
One of the main aims is to prepare new dynamic and cross-border educations, focusing on project-based learning (PBL)/learning by doing. This consists of developing personal skills for problem solving, learning by doing, communicating, analyzing, transnational and multi-disciplinary learning, facilitating, motivation and innovation for universities and labor market.
Universidade Nova de Lisboa,
UNL, Lisboa, Portugal
Nova University Lisbon
Contact:
Paulina Faria
+351919590715
paulina.faria@fct.unl.pt
Project Team:
Paulina Faria
Project Coordinator /
Associate Professor,
Building materials and construction,
Department of Civil Engineering,
NOVA School of Science and Technology,
paulina.faria@fct.unl.pt
Carlos Chastre
Associate Professor,
Structures,
Department of Civil Engineering,
NOVA School of Science and Technology,
chastre@fct.unl.pt
João Rocha de Almeida
Associate Professor,
Structures,
Department of Civil Engineering,
NOVA School of Science and Technology,
jr@fct.unl.pt
Daniel Aelenei
Associate Professor,
Building Physics,
Department of Civil Engineering,
NOVA School of Science and Technology,
daniel@fct.unl.pt
NOVA University Lisbon (NOVA) – https://www.unl.pt/en – is a Portuguese public higher education institution with a mission to serve society through knowledge and education on a local, regional and global level. NOVA is committed to the development of the European HE and its courses are organised under the principles of the Bologna Agreement.
NOVA’s structure includes, apart from the Rectorate, five Faculties (NOVA School of Science & Technology, NOVA School of Social & Human Sciences, NOVA School of Business & Economics, NOVA School of Medical Sciences, NOVA School of Law), three Institutes (Tropical Medicine, Technology & Biochemistry, Information Management) and one School of Public Health. It offers several degrees (BSc, MSc, Integrated MSc, PhD level) and postgraduate courses, covering various fields of knowledge.
NOVA is the Portuguese university with the best performance in the Horizon 2020 (in terms of Full-Time Equivalent) and 87% of its 39 R&D Units have been rated Excellent or Very Good in recent evaluations.
There are around 20500 students at NOVA, 2000 academics, and 700 non-academic staff. NOVA’s governance system allows the Rector (and the Vice-Rectors) to meet directly with the Deans of the Faculties prior to the important strategic decisions, which is something unique in Portugal.
NOVA is among the 21 best European universities under 50 years old according to QS rankings and is the Portuguese Institution with the highest impact worldwide in terms of publications, according to Leiden Ranking.
NOVA is an active member of several university networks: UNICA, YERUN, EUA and CESAER.
NOVA has consolidated experience within European programs: Tempus, Erasmus+, ERC Grants, H2020. It is also actively involved in cooperation with American, African and Asian universities. These partnerships and programs are being successfully implemented with the participation of NOVA, strengthening and expanding the initiatives of joint degrees, and also of science and technology, innovation and competitiveness. This is done through international mobility exchange of both academics (professors and researchers) and students (undergraduate and graduate).
NOVA School of Science and Technology (FCT NOVA) – https://www.fct.unl.pt/en – has 14 Departments: Civil Engineering, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Materials Science, Conservation and Restoration, Applied Social Sciences, Earth Sciences, Science and Technology of Biomass, Life Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Chemistry. FCT NOVA implemented years ago a Curricular Profile with complementary skills to boost the professional integration of graduates, that has been adapted by other Portuguese HE institutions.
Staff from FCT NOVA Department of Civil Engineering directly participates in project activities. The department focuses its research on eco-efficiency of construction products, embodied energy of building materials, energy efficiency, indoor comfort and air quality, construction technology and pathology, structural design and retrofitting, management of construction projects. The Department delivers BSc, MSc and PhD study programmes on Civil Engineering, MSc study programs on Building Rehabilitation and on Facades Technology, postgraduation study programmes on Sustainable Construction and Rehabilitation and on Infrastructures Rehabilitation. It closely cooperates with Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering which carries out research namely on climate change, environmental declaration of products and materials, life cycle assessment and toxicity.
Partners
Associated partners
The French National Committee for Wood Development, CNDB
Estonian Woodhouse Association
The Polish Green Building Council
STEICO
PAGED
ECOLOGIQ
Lithuanian Association
of Timber Houses
Producers
Company Jular
The Portuguese timber wood association AIMMP (Associação das Indústrias da Madeira e do Mobiliário de Portugal)
Rothoblaas
Polish Woodhouse Association
Contact
HiHTC
Prof. Sophie Busi
IUT Département Génie Civil
Construction Durable
IUT Erasmus+ Academic Coordinator
Assistante Projets Erasmus+
Erasmus+ Projects Assistant
Direction des Relations Internationales
Université Cloude Bernard Lyon 1
UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1 CLAUDE BERNARD
P.O. Box 761,
69622 VILLEURBANNE CEDEX, France