Welcome to Garage48 Wood series 4th event, happening on Nov 13-15th in TARTU, Estonia! 💚
*Entrance from building 56/2, Door 3!
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To make the event happen,
✦ re-usable masks are provided for all participants, including in the Tallinn-Tartu-Tallinn participant bus and compulsory to wear;
✦ spacious event and working rooms and working schedules at the Estonian University of Life Sciences offer all the options for distancing that we're gonna use;
✦ participant number is limited to 80;
✦ registration closes at 9PM on Nov 12th;
✦ in case of you not being to able to attend due to feeling ill or being in contact with a COVID-19 person during the 14 days before the event, ticket will be refunded.
Please do not attend the event, if you are feeling ill or you have been feeling bad during the last 14 days or been in close contact with COVID-19 positive person.
If you're attending the event, please download and use the Hoia app.
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The growing community of people and organisations around the Garage48 Wood event series keeps growing and is now bringing one of the most anticipated Garage48 makeathons to Tartu - hosted by Estonian University of Life Sciences as a part of the celebrations of 100 years of academic forestry education in Estonia.
Garage48, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonian Academy of Arts and Startup Estonia invite you to create the future of Estonian wood and forest!
The rich forests that cover more than half of our country are one of Estonia’s most valued natural resources with high natural and ecological value and play a highly important role in economic, social, ecological and cultural aspects of our daily lives. The forestry sector of Estonia has a strong profitable potential of material and social benefits. Yet it's use has to be facilitated so that other values and benefits, including environmental, would not suffer.
Architects, product designers, wood technologists, engineers and industry practitioners, forestry experts, climate and environmental experts, software engineers, designers and data scientists, marketers and visionaries - join us and come together to create prototypes of novel solutions for sustainable forestry and efficient forest management.
We're welcoming students, working practitioners, experts and enthusiasts!
🦎🦎 PRIZE POOL up to 12 000€ 🦎🦎
You can join with or without an idea, as an individual or a team!
The official ideas pitching and team formation happens at the opening of the event on Nov 13th. How does it work? Read from our "GET READY" subpage.
However, you're welcome to ideate, discuss and pre-form your team in the Facebook group, open for all people interested about the event to discuss and ask questions.
Feel free to join and check things out for yourself: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2754257401486353
FOCUS TOPICS
In collaboration of our organising partners, we are calling you to create solutions in the following FOCUS TOPICS:
🌿 NOVEL SOLUTIONS IN WOOD PROCESSING, ARCHITECTURE AND FORESTRY
🌿 WOOD VALORIZATION
Think of solutions that support the maximum use of one tree once it’s cut down. For example:
- how to utilize less used and lower quality tree species in wooden products construction
- how to use carpentry joints in wooden products instead of metal, to ensure as high lifetime for the product as the growing time of one tree
- how to utilize wood waste (could we create a new material out of sawdust or wood chips?)
- creation of composite materials
- circular economy in wood processing, architecture and forestry. For inspiration, check out our last year’s team
Pagerr.
🌿 DATA SCIENCE IN FORESTRY
For example, think of:
- remote sensing opportunities in forest management
- how to process and use forest felling or assembly lines data for the better availability of forest resources
🌿 Solutions to fight the CLIMATE CHANGE and that are ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY
For inspiration, check out out last year’s winner, Local Offset.
CHALLENGES
We have some pre-defined & specific challenges and problems waiting for your creative ideas and solutions!
You can come as an individual or with a team to work on creating solutions for the challenges proposed.
📗 Open Source Wood / Pattern Building CHALLENGE. PRIZE POOL up to 10 000€ 💰
Metsä Wood, Estonian Academy of Arts, Harmet and Creatomus invite you to design house products and components to integrate 369 Pattern Building system.
📗 Estonian Woodhouse Association & Estonian Woodhouse Cluster CHALLENGES. PRIZE POOL up to 1500€ 💰
Three problems the timber industry is facing and welcomes you to create solutions for, are:
✦ Carbon footprint calculator for a building's whole lifespan
✦ Weather- and moisture proof wooden houses assembyl
✦ Joint production waste management system across the sector
Dedicated challenge mentors will work with you throughout the 48 hours. Read in more detail from the special challenge subpages (find above).
PRE-EVENT
To get acquainted with the challenges, how to prepare and to understand what is expected and ask all the questions you have, join the CHALLENGES INTRO WEBINAR, happening on Nov 2nd, 7-8.30PM (GMT+2).
To ask questions, please register: https://garage48.typeform.com/to/zTZpbKPf
MACHINERY, EQUIPMENT and MATERIALS
To make all your ideas, both physical and software, in the mentioned focus areas a reality, we will provide you with all the necessary materials, data sets, mentors, rooms and equipment. The workshops of the Estonian University of Life Sciences are ready for the magic of the wood makeathon!
🛍️ Goodie Bags from Rothoblaas are included in the hackathon package.
TRANSPORTATION & ACCOMMODATION
All participants coming outside of Tartu will be provided accommodation, for FREE, in Hektor Design Hostel and a free participant bus from Tallinn to Tartu and back is welcoming you on board!
The bus leaves at 15.00 on Nov 13th from Telliskivi creative city in Tallinn and heads straight to Estonian University of Life Sciences. Heading back right after the event ends.
To book your accommodation and bus spots, fill in the info when registering: https://fienta.com/garage48-future-of-wood-2020.
🦎 Stay tuned with updates by following the Facebook event.
All registered participants will also get access to the Facebook group with useful information and tips for better performance.
🦎 Contact us if you have any questions at wood@garage48.org.
Garage48 Future of Wood 2020 is financed by Estonian University of Life Sciences, Startup Estonia, European Regional Development Fund and Estonian Academy of Arts. We are supported by TSENTER Centre Competence for Wood Processing and Furniture Manufacturing, Metsä Wood, Harmet, Thorn Engineering and Creatomus Solutions, Tartu city, Eesti Kultuurkapital / Cultural Endowement of Estonia, Rothoblaas, Estonian Woodhouse Association, Estonian Woodhouse Cluster and Creatomus.
Garage48 has a flexible schedule, but we do have some key activities that need to be planned ahead.
Friday, Nov 13th
17:30 - Check-in, networking & snacks
18:00 - Opening remarks
18:30 - Pitching ideas in 90"
19:30 - Refreshment break (if necessary)
19:50 - Pitching ideas in 90"
20:45 - Team formation
22:00 - Team work begins!
Saturday, Nov 14th
09:00 - Breakfast. Development continues
10:00 - Checkpoint #1
11:00 - Mentoring round starts
13:00 - Lunch
14.00 - Pitch drill introduction
18:00 - Checkpoint #2. Development continues...
19:00 - Dinner
20:00 - Development continues
Sunday, Nov 15th
09:00 - Breakfast. Development continues
10:00 - Checkpoint #3
11:00 - Pitch drill session #1
13:00 - Lunch
14:00 - Pitch drill session #2
15:30 - CLEAN-UP
16:00 - Refreshment break
17:30 - Finale. Pitching session.
18:30 - Refreshment break and the Jury takes the time to select winners
19:00 - Award ceremony, networking & clean-up
What is Garage48 about?
Garage48 is a weekend long intensive development event to work out innovative technological solutions. In 48 hours, participants turn their ideas into working prototypes. A Garage48 event is a mixture of a hackathon and an exercise from a bootstrapper's bible. With origins from Estonia & the Silicon Valley, Garage48 events evolved being the first of its kind events in rapidly developing tech countries: Ukraine, Latvia, Belarus, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya & elsewhere. The aim of Garage48 is to bring innovative ideas and new startups into life.
PREPARING FOR THIS HACKATHON
COVID-19
Your health is important to us - we follow the regulations and advice from the Government of Estonia and Republic of Estonia Health Board. Please do not attend the event, if you are feeling ill or you have been feeling bad during the last 14 days or been in close contact with COVID-19 positive person.
If you're attending the event, please download and use the Hoia app.
If necessary, we are ready to modify the event structure in a way, that the health and safety of all participants, organizers and mentors is guaranteed. In case of cancellation of the event, all tickets are refunded.
We'll start on Friday at 17:30 with opening doors. Please come on time, as the registration process might take some time. This time before the official opening is a great opportunity for getting to know the crowd and to network. See the agenda for further information.
WHAT TO BRING WITH YOU?
Positive attitude, open mind and lots of energy! Everything you need for a rapid product development. We will have equipment and materials on site (see the Machines, equipment & materials subpage), but to be sure we recommend you to bring your own stuff as well. You never know when you need something yourself or if you could help out another team. Sharing is caring :)
The fact is that, if you build something what really works on Sunday evening, then we will not ask the bits and pieces back - you don't have to break your prototype, the team can take the it home and continue working on it. This does not apply though for more expensive things.
Please take your:
laptop
3-5m power extension cord (as power might be on distance),
mobile phone
all chargers
PITCHING IDEAS
Ideas are presented based on "elevator-pitch" method within 90 seconds. Event host and audience can ask 1 to 3 short questions.
You can prepare 1 (one) PDF slide to support your pitch. You should send the slide by Thursday, 17.00 (12.11), at the e-mail wood@garage48.org (Subject: name of your project).
Consider following key points:
- Describe briefly your background (10 sec)
- What is the name of the idea (5 sec)
- What's the idea all about? What is the problem your idea solves? Target user count and description (30 sec)
- Technical solution and if there is a revenue model (in case of non-profit idea, how the maintenance and further development costs will be covered?) (30 sec)
- Minimum viable product and plan for 48 hours. Who do you need for the team? (20 sec)
NB! Practice your pitch to your friends or family before you present! 90 seconds goes really fast!
FORMING TEAMS
After pitching is over, we will put all the ideas on the wall. Every participant will choose their favourite idea and this is how teams will be formed. Usually 16 to 18 best ideas will get enough interested people to get the "green light" for the implementation.
Average team has about 5 to 7 people and the team should be "balanced" - covering all required roles like necessary engineers, designer, a project manager (team lead/visionary), and marketer in order to get the product/service ready in 48 hours! Minimum size for a team is 4 people and max is 8 people.
If some ideas get too few people or not balanced teams (probably unable to build the service), the idea will be dumped. Those people should choose another idea/team.
WORKING IN TEAMS
After forming the teams, organizers will give a room/space for every team for the weekend. You should start by dividing roles, setting the product vision, customer journey and start working right away.
It is very important that you have a project manager (team lead) in the team - one of his tasks is to keep the focus of the team, one eye on the clock and the other on the team progress. 48 hours is really a short time.
FOOD AND DRINKS
We provide breakfast, lunch and dinner on Saturday and Sunday, coffee, refreshment, snacks & drinks throughout the 48 hours. So you could focus on work and building your product.
ACCOMMODATION
All participants coming outside of Tartu can be accommodated in Hektor Design Hostels, twin, triple and quadruple rooms together with other participants. Just let us know when signing up.
TALLINN-TARTU-TALLINN FREE PARTICIPANT BUS
Hop on board the free participant bus coming from Tallinn straight to the hackathon and back. Sign up when registrering.
The bus leaves at 15.00 on Nov 13th from Telliskivi creative city in Tallinn and heads straight to Estonian University of Life Sciences. Heading back right after the event ends.
MENTORS
We have arranged mentors to work with the teams throughout the weekend. Some of them are more technical, some more business savvy. Be open and ask for their advice and contacts.
Please wear your name badge during the whole event, this will help to encourage networking and gets you inside through security guards. Otherwise be open, get to know new people, share your ideas and give ideas/feedback to other teams.
MOST IMPORTANT - have fun! 💚
Metsä Wood, Estonian Academy of Arts, Harmet and Creatomus invite the participants of Future of Wood to design house products and components to integrate 369 Pattern Building system (https://patternbuildings.com).
You are encouraged and supported to propose your own concept for a timber building to explore mass-customisation.🌿 Prototype your own house concept based on the Pattern Building system
🌿 Design the skin, layouts and components to hang on the 3-6-9 modules or fit into the modules it.
🌿 Develop digital configurators, VR/AR solutions for the design, production and assembly process.
🌿 Develop digital configurators on Creatomus' platform
All scales from smallest building components to city planning are relevant! We ask you to use primarily Kerto LVL and other timber based products combined with other materials of your choice, and share your work on the Open Source Wood platform (https://opensourcewood.com).
There will be full-scale modules of Pattern Building system (https://patternbuildings.com/docs/room-module/) available during the makeathon for you to get the feel of the space, and test your concepts in 1:1 scale. There will be technical and design mentors from the core team of Pattern Building to help you to take the most out of the event.
🏆The jury will select 3-4 teams that get monetary support (1500-2000 EUR) for developing their concept further. 🏆
DEDICATED CHALLENGE MENTORS, working with you throughout the weekend, are:
Tuukka Kylakallio - Metsä Wood
Renee Puusepp - Senior Researcher at Estonian Academy of Arts, Co-Founder of Creatomus
Egle Vogt - Project Manager at Harmet, Lead System Engineer at 369 Pattern Building System
Kristo Kalbe - Energy Efficient Construction Expert at TalTech, HVAC and Energy Engineer at 369 Pattern Building System
Aigar Kons - Project Cargo Transportation at DVS
Kiur Lootus - Founder at Lootus, Board Member, Head of Process and Product Management at Woodfort
Come join the Pattern Building ecosystem and help change the construction industry greener, healthier and more efficient!
PRE-EVENT!
To get acquainted with the challenges, how to prepare and to understand what is expected and ask all the questions you have, take a look at the CHALLENGES INTRO WEBINAR.
🌲 WOOD PROCESSING WORKSHOP
The Wood processing workshop is located in two different buildings and several rooms: mainly two larger units Sawmilling and drying and Wood processing hall (machinery room) are available.
The sawmill unit
is set to start from the cutting of roundwood until the standardizing and drying the sawnwood assortments. Since the hackathon has very tight schedule, the use and need of specific sownwood assortments is needed to be ordered at least three weeks in advance. If the groups needed to have specific freshly cut sawnwood, then this request should be placed to organizers in minimum two weeks in advance.
Woodworking Shop
Depending on the material, the Woodworking Shop allows for sawing, chiselling, planing, milling, boring, lathing, sanding, gluing and bending various materials laminated in a vacuum. In addition, the lab has a wide selection of battery powered tools, manual tools and general wood processing power tools.
Thermal treatment
if you want to use thermal treated wood, we need to know it at least three weeks before the event.
CNC working center
Wide range of possibilities to process logs and pieces of sawnwood with various shapes and thickness. For this 5 axis operating unit, designed and realized to obtain highest performance in a minimum space.
With this unit is possible to:
- engrave on different surfaces, from different types of board materials (like OSB, plywood, MDF, plastic and other wood-based composites) cut shapes and details;
- create profiled boards and joints;
- mill shapes from wooden blocks (ISO fail is required).
🌲 DESIGNING SOFTWARE
Also desinging software ( AutoCad; ArchiCad; Fusion 360; Rhinioceros; Vertex BD; hsbCad) can be used. For this a computer acess to software will be made available for the group on their request (at least three days in advance).
🌲 CUTTING LABORATORY
http://te.emu.ee/et/struktuur/biomajandustehnoloogiate-oppetool-bt/teadustoo/loiketootluslabor/
Metal machining is possible with Haas CNCs and Knuth manual machines. For lighter milling needs UNICH CNC mills are available. Workshop has also welding capabilities and a laser cutter CO2 100W.
http://te.emu.ee/en/about/chair-of-biosystems-engineering/research/laboratories/laboratory-of-biofuels/
In the laboratory of biofuels and bioenergy the woody biomass can also be valorised through thermal conversion processes, such as torrefaction, pyrolysis or gasification. There is huge amount of residues on the forestry, wood, and pulp industry. Thermal conversion can be a solution to turn such residues into high-value products by integrating it with biochemical and microbiological processes.
PROTOTYPING MATERIALS
We will stock various prototyping materials for the makeathon. Please let us know what you need when registering to the event!
We're ready to do additional shopping on Saturday, Nov 14th within reasonable wishes of the teams, but we prefer to be as prepared as possible. So please help us out here and let us know your needs.
Estonian Woodhouse Association and Estonian Wooden Houses Cluster invite the participants of Future of Wood to hack timber building industry!
Join the makeathon to create solutions for the following challenges:
🌿 CARBON FOOTPRINT CALCULATOR FOR A BUILDING'S WHOLE LIFESPAN
This should not be no ordinary calculator – it should take into account every aspect of house building „life cycle“ (buildings materials; transportation; offsite-onsite building; waste leftover/management; building utilization etc). Additionally, it should be integrated as a plugin into different planning software, so that it could be used in construction procurement as metrics.
We believe that new housings should be built not only energy efficient but also environmentally friendly. If you think the same and you believe that you have what it takes to develop a new metric system - then this challenge is for you!
🌿PROTECTION OF PREFABRICATED WOODEN CONSTRUCTIONS FROM WEATHER DAMAGE (MOISTURE)
It’s no secret that wood can not tolerate large amounts of moisture, such as rain. Therefore, it has been challenging and expensive for producers to protect their elements from rain while they are assembled together onsite. We would like you to think outside the box and suggest alternatives to expensive tents and waiting for more favorable weather conditions to start the assembly process.
🌿 JOINT PRODUCTION WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ACROSS THE TIMBER SECTOR
Waste management is not only the woodhouse sector problem, but as a sustainable and environmentally driven sector, we would like to push these limits even further. Timber construction has already minimized their material loss in construction, but what to do with waste that comes from packages or gypsum boards that are also used in constructing a module or element?
Questions: WHAT to do with this kind of waste; HOW to gather information on different types of generated waste from the industry; HOW TO CREATE an EFFICIENT waste collection system and recycling – are waiting for your ideas! If you know the solution that can contribute not only to our manufacturers but the whole industry - speak up!
DEDICATED CHALLENGE MENTORS will be working with you throughout the 48 hours as you develop the solutions for these challenges:
Siim Leisalu - CEO of Timbeco Woodhouse, Chairman of Estonian Woodhouse Association
Martin Talts - CEO and Co-founder of KMT Prefab, Vice-Chairman of Estonian Woodhouse Association
Lauri Kivil - Managing Director of Estonian Woodhouse Association
Mari Kullerkup - Marketing Manager at Profab Houses
Elari Kivisoo - Board Member at Prefab Ehitus OÜ
🏆 The jury will select 1-2 teams whose ideas get support (500-1500EUR) for developing their concept further. 🏆
PRE-EVENT!
To get acquainted with the challenges, how to prepare and to understand what is expected and ask all the questions you have, watch the CHALLENGES INTRO WEBINAR.
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