I would like to cooperate with research and industry partners interested in creating a consortium in TOPIC 3 – Timber and Innovative Wood-Based Products ("How wood is transformed into innovative products").

The "Timber Engineering Group" of Empa has extensive experience in developing innovative timber-based products and connections, particularly for structural applications.
We bring expertise and capability to perform experiments, including large-scale experiments, as well as extensive experience in numerical simulations of timber members, connections, and structures.
Our current research activities focus on:
- multi-storey buildings and complex structures – lateral force resisting systems, timber connections, structural robustness, and reliability of timber structural systems;
- design for extended service life and circularity;
- structural applications of hardwoods;
- development of structural design codes on national and European levels.

For more info about our activities visit:
- https://www.empa.ch/web/s303/timber-engineering
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/empa-timber-engineering/

"Empa" is a research institute of the ETH Domain. Empa conducts cutting-edge materials and technology research, generating interdisciplinary solutions to major challenges faced by industry, and creates the necessary scientific basis to ensure that our society develops in a sustainable manner.
The "Structural Engineering Research Laboratory" of Empa, to which the "Timber Engineering Group" belongs, is equipped with a large testing hall and several unique testing machines, has skilled personnel with a vast experience in performing large scale static, fatigue, and dynamic laboratory and field tests and holds an ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation for static and fatigue tests. It is the only accredited laboratory for large scale tests in Switzerland. The Laboratory works with national and international universities, research institutes and industrial partners in the fields of structural strengthening, timber structures and structural dynamics. Within our core competencies, we also provide the industry with high-level services.