Monday, September 19, 2011

FINAL PAPER

The final product gathering all information from our project is ready.
You can read it here.

THANK YOU TO ALL PARTNERS FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL PROJECT CARRIED OUT TOGETHER ! LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING TOGETHER AGAIN.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

BEAM TOOLS

The BEAM partners have worked together for 2 years on wood, training and eco construction in general.
They have met several times during the project and have created tools: reports, video, grid

To have a look at the draft grid, please click HERE

Monday, July 4, 2011

Final seminar - France

To end the project in the best working conditions, the partners gathered on an island in Normandy and worked for 2 days on the final products.
They worked in group and shared their results to end up with a global vision of each training system in the building sector.
At the end of the session, partners exchanged on how they wished to continue this fruitful relationship in the future.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE AGENDA
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE WORKSHOP GUIDELINES

Monday, October 11, 2010

Seminar in Deventer - Netherlands

7th - 8th April 2011

Our next seminar will take place in the Netherlands next spring. The partners will keep in touch and carry on with the work started on the project.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE GENERAL REPORT

CLICK HERE TO READ THE STEERING COMMITTEE REPORT

Seminars in Italy

23rd - 24th September 2010 in Toano

Giovanni Gazzotti welcomed the partners of BEAM on his workplace, in the small village of Toano.

Demonstrations on site enabled them to learn about natural materials, their transformation and their use in buildings: lime, wood, stone, pigments, earth, iron.
The visit of the renovated church of Toano illustrated the work of preparation done in Giovanni's company.
Trainees from CPIPE took part in the seminar and different practices.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE REPORT
CLICK HERE FOR THE PWP OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE

25th - 26th November 2010 in Padova

Visit of Yannick Soubien vice president of Lower Normandy and Alain Tambour (GIP FCIP de Basse Normandie) invited by ANCE association of Italian building contactors to exchange views on the outcome of BEAM and further cooperation on the topic of the green competence and sustainability in the building trade as a follow up of the project.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE AGENDA
CLICK HERE TO READ THE REPORT

Seminar in Trondheim - Norway

6th - 7th May 2010

The partners kept on learning from practical visits:
- Re-use, building materials of wood - presentation of the Stavne timber block.
- Guided tour of Stavne and some of its units (training)
- Excursion to a Stavne block room
- Visit of a sawmill and explanation on what a forest district is
- Guided tour of Trondheim, largest town with wood construction in northern Europe

CLICK HERE TO READ THE REPORT

BEAM in the press....
Click HERE to read about it in norwegian
Click HERE to have a translation of the article in english

Friday, December 11, 2009

Kick-off meeting in Caen - France



The program of the 2-days seminar has been built to be as concrete as possible: visits in different areas, French training environment and how construction is undertaken in Lower Normandy, link with heritage (timbered houses of Honfleur and their renovation) and reflexion on how to connect modern and heritage, visit of a forest and how it is managed.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE REPORT