Wood4Bauhaus contribution to Call for Evidence on the New European Bauhaus: achievements and future developments
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The Wood4Bauhaus Alliance sees the New European Bauhaus (NEB) as a powerful community to promote bio-based innovation, resource efficiency, and circular design, turning EU climate ambition into tangible change in how we build, renovate, and live. Wood-based materials are sustainable, carbon-storing, and circular materials, perfectly positioned to deliver on the NEB mission, providing both environmental, economic and social value, through affordable and healthy homes. The future evolution of the NEB should therefore consolidate its governance structure and community, secure stable funding, and enhance coherent policy coordination with key initiatives such as the Circular Economy Act, the European Affordable Housing Plan and the Bioeconomy Strategy. By embedding the NEB as a driving bottom-up facilitator for co-creation and co-design across these instruments, the Commission can ensure its long-term success as the creative and operational heart of Europe’s sustainable, competitive transformation. Wood4Bauhaus proposes eight key recommendations in the following topical areas for the future development of the NEB: Harnessing bio-based materials Industrialised & off-site construction Circular economy & recycling Public procurement & regulatory alignment Skills & workforce development Community & inclusiveness Research, innovation & monitoring Policy coherence with housing initiatives The Wood4Bauhaus Alliance represents the European industry, research and innovation ecosystem around wood-based materials and engineered products for construction. wood4bauhaus.eu | [email protected]
Authors: InnovaWood, European Panel Federation (EPF), European Confederation of the Woodworking Industries (CEI-Bois), European Organization of the Samwill Industry (EOS), European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW), InnoRenew CoE
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: European Commission
Awards: NEW EUROPEAN BAUHAUS ACADEMY ALLIANCE, Empowering climate-smart, circular, and zero-waste use of underutilized wood from the forest and building stock in the construction sector to support the New European Bauhaus, ReducINg the footprint of consumer products through public dialoGUe and innovative bio-based MAterials, Ecological Solutions for Recovery of Secondary Raw Materials from Post-consumer Fibreboards
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