Estonian Woodhouse Association acknowledged the best final thesis related to woodhouse sector for the 6th time. This year's awarded scientific papers were about timber frame structure´s acoustics, sound isolation and wooden I-joists charring analysis or aspects of hygrothermal performance of timber frame wall with rigid foam insulation.
Read more »Handcrafted loghouse builders gathered in Hiiumaa on August 1st for another annual vocational competition. Competitors included both professional builders and students acquiring the profession. Jubilee year's best loghouse master is Veiko Palm from EstNor OÜ.
Read more »Estonian Woodhouse Association and Estonian Wooden Houses Cluster announced the best factory produced timber houses in Hiiumaa on July 31. Awards were presented by the President of Estonia, Kersti Kaljulaid. Overall winner of the contest is a residential houses development project by Arca Nova Element OÜ in Norway.
Read more »Spring came differently this year and Estonian garden house producers like many other entrepreneurs thought that the future will be uncertain to say the least. All of a sudden something happened and orders started to pour in, leaving everybody surprised.
Read more »Professional vocational competition of handcrafted log houses, that celebrates its 10th anniversary, takes place in Hiiumaa on the 1st of August. In the competition there will be professionals as well as students who are acquiring the profession. The best technique and speed have to be shown in making of corner joint and groove of a log.
Read more »A new office building, Skøyen Atrium III, opened in Oslo, Norway, at the end of November. The eye-catching facade and atrium were created by Estonian produced timber frame elements (EstNor OÜ).
Read more »Umbrella organization that unites timber house manufacturers and related companies, Estonian Woodhouse Association, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. An important event of the year, opening of the sector´s showroom in Estonian Open Air Museum´s new museal, a contemporary timber house, took place on August 31.
Read more »Estonian laminated timber specialist Palmako AS has introduced an innovative glulam production line which makes production more efficient, increases the product range and is more customer-focused.
Read more »9th vocational competition of handcrafted log house builders and Day of Wooden Houses 2019 took place in Estonian Open Air Museum over the weekend (June 29). The family day introduced woodhouse sector, different seminars and workshops were also held. Those interested got a tour of the newest addition to the museum´s exhibit - a modern prefabricated timber house.
Read more »Estonian Woodhouse Association, an organization that unites Estonian timber building producers, became 20 years old on May 22. To celebrate the jubilee year, woodhouse producers together with good friends planted nearly 30 000 trees.
Read more »Estonian Woodhouse Association elected a new Board for the next two years at an annual general meeting.
Read more »Purpose of the Prefab House of the Year contest is to promote wooden houses and special solutions produced by Estonian companies and via this promote wood as a versatile building material. That goal was precisely achieved by Timbeco Woodhouse OÜ with their facade and roof element project of Helsinki Central Library.
Read more »Estonian manufacturers exported timber buildings abroad for 394 million euros last year, roughly 23% more than in the year before (2017). The export amounts mainly consisted of the production of large manufacturers of prefabricated modular buildings and garden cottages, but export and the share thereof were also significantly increased by medium-sized enterprises.
Read more »Estonian Wooden Houses Cluster was awarded with titles "Appreciate the Promoters of Entrepreneurship 2018" and „Best Collaborative project 2018“ last month and is also about to celebrate a 10-year anniversary. The sector’s supporting organization (cluster) has a new leader since October – Eeva Vahtramäe.
Read more »Building from pre-fabricated timber elements and using them in combination with other construction materials is common practice in all Nordic countries. Timber elements speed up the construction process and therefore reduce costs.
Read more »Nordic Houses as a responsible company has over the years initiated and participated in various charity projects that support the cause of bringing people closer to nature. It has often been successful through different activities that have taken part in nature. That way one’ s mind gets re-charged with new energy and environment benefits as well.
Read more »Estonia´s best handcrafted log house masters tested their skills in Räpina at the vocational competition of log house builders. The competition during „Hea Kodu“ („Good Home“) days took place for the 8th time in co-operation with Estonian Wooden Houses Association, Estonian Wooden Houses Cluster and log house producers. The fastest and most skilful performance was carried out by Veiko Palm, who won the title for the 5th time. There were 13 participants in the competition.
Read more »Estonian Woodhouse Association (EWA) in co-operation with Tallinn University of Applied Sciences participate in an international program „Sustainable High-Rise Buildings Designed and Constructed in Timber (HiTimber)“ that promotes timber construction education. The goal of the three-year co-operation project is to work out a new study module to help teach timber construction in universities.
Read more »“European Enterprise Promotion Awards” Estonian qualification “Appreciate the Promoters of Entrepreneurship 2018” were won by leadership program aimed for young girls called Superheroes and Estonian Woodhouse Association who encourages Estonian wooden houses sector to export.
Read more »Pre-fab House of the Year contest organized by the Estonian Wooden Houses Cluster and Estonian Woodhouse Association took place for the 8th time. Winner of this year’s contest from among many entries is Kodumaja (KM Element OÜ) with their complex of apartment buildings in Norway.
Read more »Estonian Woodhouse Association annually recognizes for distinguished actions with titles of honour „Friend of Wooden Houses 2017“ and „Person of the Year 2017“. Remarkable work and activities supporting the sector were last year done by Enterprise Estonia and Toomas Kalev, Chairman of the Board of Harmet OÜ.
Read more »An international conference Holzbau Forum Garmisch took place in Germany in the beginning of December. For the delegation of Estonian Wooden Houses Cluster, it was the first time to participate. The program of the conference included among other respectable speakers also presentations by Estonians.
Read more »A new pre-fab house factory was opened in Kumna village near Keila by the President of Estonia. According to Estonian capital based company Harmet, their new factory is one of the biggest and most automatic in the region.
Read more »Scientists of Tallinn University of Technology in co-operation with Estonian Academy of Security Sciences, RISE (Swedish research institutes), Swedish Wood, State Real Estate Company and German specialists tested fire resistance of a building built of cross-laminated timber panels on training field of Academy of Security Sciences on November 1st.
Read more »As is customary, Estonia was well-represented at the Bygg Reis Deg construction trade fair. In addition to a large joint stand, several Estonian companies also had their own separate stands at the fair.
Read more »An international construction fair Bygg Reis Deg, taking place every two years was held from October 18-21 in Norway. The fair offers different solutions for homes, large volume buildings and other types of buildings. Participants include material, tools, energetics producers as well as real-estate development specialists. Estonian wooden houses producers were also represented with their booths.
Read more »Wooden houses sector was having an annual “Summer Conference of Friends of Wooden Houses” already for the 6th time in the last weekend of August. Participants included members of Wooden Houses Association and Cluster, good partners and other interested people.
Read more »Estonian Wooden Houses Cluster and Estonian Woodhouse Association awarded for the third time science papers written on important topics in the field of prefabricated wooden houses. The best papers were chosen by the Board of the Woodhouse Association and the highest prize went to Villu Melk, a student at Estonian University of Life Sciences.
Read more »Producer of modular wooden buildings Harmet OÜ increased turnover last year by ¼, up to 66,7 million EUR. This result exceeds that of Kodumaja AS who has been the biggest producer until now.
Read more »The building industry creates more carbon than any other and with the building volumes going up as the population of the world increases rapidly, we need innovation for sustainable living. Estonia has an unexpected solution: wooden houses.
Read more »It is a duty of every state, company and citizen to think about environmental impacts in their everyday activities and take responsibility. It can be seen that the society is moving in the right direction, however it is not always easy to find balance between environmental and business interests.
Read more »Estonian Woodhouse Association and Estonian Wooden Houses Cluster organized the contest of “Pre-Fab House of the Year” for the 7th time. This year 22 Estonian wooden houses producers participated with 31 works from Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Finland and Austria. The overall winner of this year’s contest is a project of terraced houses in Sweden by Puitpaneel OÜ.
Read more »There will not be any construction of logistics centres or their expansions planned in 2017, the biggest of its kind built will presumably be Harmet’ s modular house production unit in Harku county, Kumna village, states the market overview by Uus Maa real-estate bureau.
Read more »Munich based construction fair BAU that ended last week gave the wooden houses sector a thorough overview of Europe’s construction sector’s latest trends. The fair was about architecture and engineering of buildings, introduced new building technologies, tools, new materials and building components that enable to build and do interior works on industrial buildings, administrative spaces and private homes more efficiently.
Read more »For the second time Estonian Wooden Houses Cluster in co-operation with Estonian Wooden Houses Association issued awards for scientific research work of pre-fabricated wooden houses. The awards were presented by Tea Varrak, Vice-Rector for Innovation and Business Relations at Tallinn University of Technology, on October 18.
Produced by Nordic Houses and engineered by Trilog Studio architects, the Nordic Compact modern house solution now also has its own, unique virtual reality tour. Architectural visualisation studio Downtown Visuals has created a virtual tour where a future home owner can experience the interior finish, space and lighting solutions of the house and then order their virtually ready-made home straight from the factory.
Customers are increasing favouring solutions tailored to their wishes and replicating their own personal style when ordering a house.
Read more »Estonian manufacturers of wooden houses that strongly grew export volumes and expanded into new markets in the year ending received KredEx Credit Insurance’s export deed of the year title.
Read more »The President of the Republic of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, declared Kodumaja AS the best company of the country. The company manufactures timber-framed buildings.
Read more »The European wooden house industry has been stable for several years without showing any trends of significant growth or contraction. The change towards the increase of volumes arrived last year.
Read more »On 14 July, the Estonian Wooden Houses Cluster set up an exhibition introducing Estonian wooden houses and leading producers of wooden houses in the most prestigious business and living quarter of Tallinn.
Read more »2,619 building permits were issued in 2014 which is nearly twice less than a year before. The decrease of the issued permits has happened in comparison of all types of building; however, the smallest drop has occurred as regards the sector of buildings on timber structure.
Read more »The Estonian Woodhouse Association has an annual tradition to recognise a person, who has contributed the most to the joint ventures of the association. This year, the title was unanimously awarded to Mihkel Urmet.
Read more »Estonian web-based architecture marketplace start-up katus.eu, in cooperation with prefabricated house builders Nurban and Kodumaja, is announcing a competition for the design of modern prefabricated houses for sites in Stavanger, Norway and Ülenurme near Tartu, Estonia.
Read more »Estonian Wooden Houses Cluster (EWHC) arranged a tour to Latvia for wooden houses manufactures. During the three-day visit Estonians had a possibility to visit local businesses and create contacts. A seminar on European support actions was held in cooperation of EWHC and Latvian Wood Construction Cluster.
Read more »Estonian Wooden Houses Cluster held a seminar „A Year in Nearly Zero-Energy Building (nZEB)“ to mark a successful first year of the Tallinn Technical University (TTU) nZEB pilot project. Initial research results of the nZEB testhouse were presented and it was discussed on how to build nearly zero-energy buildings.
Read more »At the end of month the annual Summer Conference takes place. EWA members and other stakeholders involved in manufacturing wooden houses will gather in Muhu island on August 22 -23.
Most relevant topics will be discussed, interesting reports will be presented by the members and invited guests.
Last call for registration: info@puitmajaliit.ee
Jarek Kurnitski, Professor of Civil Engineering, at last year's conference
Read more »According to Statistics Estonia the exports of wood-based products in 2013 amounted to 1598 million euros, which is 9.9% more than in 2012. The import volume in the same commodity group was 424 million euros, increasing by 13.6%.
Read more »On Thursday, 6th February, Nordic Houses OÜ, one of the leading exporters of Estonian wooden houses, hosted the Buen Gruppen AS’ annual Partner meeting in Tallinn. It was 10 partner companies from Norway who participated in the whole day conference at Nordic Hotel Forum.
Read more »Presentation of technical guideline „Fire safety in timber buildings. Version 3“ recently translated to Estonian took place on Monday, 27th January in Tallinn University of Technology. The guideline summarizes the requirements for fire safety in the design and construction of wooden houses in Nordic and Baltic countries. The event was organized in cooperation with Tallinn University of Technology, Estonian Building Centre, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Estonian Woodhouse Association, Estonian Forest and Wood Industries Association and Estonian Wooden Houses Cluster.
Read more »A presentation of technical guideline „Fire safety in timber buildings. Version 3“ recently translated to Estonian will take place in Tallinn University of Technology on next Monday, 27th January. The guideline summarizes the requirements for fire safety in the design and construction of wooden houses in Nordic and Baltic countries. The event is organized in cooperation with Tallinn University of Technology, Estonian Building Centre, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Estonian Woodhouse Association and Estonian Wooden Houses Cluster.
Read more »With the decision of the Board, three new companies recently joined Estonian Woodhouse Association: Uuenurga LLC, Q-Haus Baltic OÜ and OÜ FER Project. Thus, the Association's membership has grown to 34.
Read more »The Estonian wooden houses producers’ sales volume increased in 2012, being mostly affected by export growth.
Read more »Estonian business newspaper Äripäev ranked local enterprises of timber industry basing on their economic indicators. Four out of twenty top-companies are also members of Estonian Woodhouse Association and –Cluster:
Read more »On 3rd of December the seminar on the topic of „How to automate wooden houses produced in Estonia?“ took place in Meriton Grand Conference&Spa hotel. The seminar was organized by Estonian Wooden Houses Cluster and Rakvere Smart House Competence Centre.
Read more »On November 19th Tiit Sild, CEO of architecture shop Katus, together with Argo Saul, chairman of the board of Estonian Woodhouse Association, introduced katus.eu idea in Morning show.
Read more »Estonian Woodhouse Association and Estonian Wooden Houses Cluster announced fourth Annual Contest Pre-Fab House of the Year winner - Akso-Haus’ and Passion House’s residential smart design house project.
Read more »Exports of wood-based products is nearly four times higher than imports and both show growth trends compared to eight months of the year 2012. According to Statistics Estonia the exports of wood-based products in first eight months of 2013 amounted to 1073 million euros, which is 11 % more than in the same period of 2012.
Read more »The export of nearly 40% to Russia and a growth of demand in the domestic market increased the sales turnovers of laminated log houses sales and construction company Finnlamelli Eesti OÜ operating under the brand Finnlog by a fifth in 2013 compared to the first eight months last year.
Read more »Four third-year students of Tallinn University of Technology Engineering Faculty - Kaie Tobreluts, Marten Merila, Margus Krasnov and Auno Saare, who started their practice this spring in Seve Ehituse AS team, have been graded "excellent", and after graduation have their job insured in Seve team.
Read more »Last summer Estonian Woodhouse Association and Estonian Wooden Houses Cluster organised a successful conference for our members and associates for a first time. This year Wooden Houses Friends Summer conference will take place on 23th of August.
Read more »Since January 2013 Estonian Wooden Houses Cluster’s new CEO is Kristiina Rebane. Former CEO Elari Kivisoo is now a head of wooden house producer Ökoehituse AS and continues being board member of Estonian Woodhouse Association.
Read more »According to the Estonian Environment Information Center the export of Estonian wooden houses in the first nine months this year totaled 144 million euros, which is 7 percent more compared with the same period in 2011.
Read more »Estonian Woodhouse Association and Estonian Wooden Houses Cluster announced third Annual Contest Pre-Fab House of the Year winner Matek AS their residential housing project in Norway, Sætre made of prefabricated timber frame structures.
Read more »Estonian Woodhouse Association and Estonian Wooden Houses Cluster announced third annual contest „Pre-Fab House of the Year“ to recognize wooden house professionals using factories to provide high quality and personalized houses.
Read more »According to the Estonian Environment Information Centre the export of Estonian wooden houses in the first six months this year totaled 89,6 million euros, which is nearly 1,8 percent less compared with the same period in 2011.
Read more »Estonian Woodhouse Association and Estonian Wooden Houses Cluster organize summer conference „Estonia – the Largest Exporter of Wooden Houses in 2020?“ 24-26 August 2012 Raudsilla Matkakompleks (www.raudsilla.ee), Estonia.
Read more »The winner of contest for handcrafted log home builders, organized by the Estonian Woodhouse Association in 2012 is Ahto Naruski from Saulerman OÜ. Veiko Palm from EstNor OÜ placed second and third place went to Jüri Võsakovski from Saulerman OÜ.
Read more »Estonian Woodhouse Association organizes contest for handcrafted log home builders on June 9, 2012 in Räpina, South-Estonia. The competition aims to promote knowledge and appreciation of professional log home builders.
Read more »According to the Estonian Environment Information Center the export of Estonian wooden houses in first 3 months this year totaled 33,7 million euros, which is two percent more compared with the same period in 2011.
Read more »Members of the Estonian Woodhouse Association and Estonian Wooden Houses Cluster participate in world’s biggest annual event for sustainable design, construction and the built environment EcoBuild held in the UK from 20th to 22nd March 2012.
Read more »Members of the Estonian Woodhouse Association participate in World Horticultural Expo Floriade 2012 held in the Netherlands from 5th April to 7th October 2012.
Read more »According to the Estonian Environment Information Center the export of Estonian wooden houses in 2011 totaled 170,1 million euros, which is 23,8 percent more compared with 2010.
Read more »Estonian Woodhouse Association in cooperation with Enterprise Estonia offers the possibility of international marketing internship in Holland in period of 5.04-7.10.2012 in the frames of an international horticultural expo, Floriade 2012 (www.floriade.com).
Read more »Log homes are warm and environment-friendly buildings that maintain quality throughout centuries if built in accordance with right construction technologies. Recently, Estonians who have long term traditions in producing and exporting log homes adopted the standards of the Estonian Woodhouse Association for quality log houses.
Read more »According to the Estonian Environment Information Center the export of Estonian wooden houses in the first nine months this year totaled 132 million euros, which is 24,2 percent more compared with the same period in 2010.
Read more »Estonian Woodhouse Association and Estonian Wooden Houses Cluster announced 2nd Annual Contest Pre-Fab House of the Year winner Kodumaja AS their residential housing project in Norway, Oslo made of prefabricated building modules with timber frame structures.
Read more »According to Estonian Woodhouse Association, the turnover of Estonian wooden house producers in 2010 totaled 214 million euros, which is 81 percent more compared with 2009. The turnover of companies in the Association totaled 95,5 million euros.
Read more »Estonian Woodhouse Association and Estonian Wooden Houses Cluster announced second annual contest „Pre-Fab House of the Year“ to recognize wooden house professionals using factories to provide high quality and personalized houses.
Read more »On Friday, September 9, the Norwegian ambassador Lise Nicoline Kleven Grevstad visited the Estonian-Norwegian wooden house producer Nordic Houses OÜ, which belongs to the Estonian Wooden Houses cluster, and got acquainted with Estonian wooden house sector.
Read more »Estonian wooden house manufacturer Seve Ehituse took part in Finnish Housing Fair held in Kokkolo from 15th July to 14th August 2011. Estonian Passive House got a lot of positive feedback and was named as one of the most energy efficient building at the fair.
Read more »Estonian log home manufacturer RPM Group is starting to export machined log homes to China. Currently negotiations are being held about the sale of apx 100 summer houses and several large villas.
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