The WoodBUILD 2025 Conference and Expo report is now available to read online.
Held in Llandudno on 3–4 June 2025, this year’s event brought together 185 delegates, 23 speakers, 14 exhibitors and six sponsors to explore how Wales can accelerate the use of timber in construction and scale regenerative materials for climate adaptation.
Under the theme Connecting knowledge to action, the conference built on the momentum of recent years by focusing on how insights from across the supply chain can be turned into tangible change.
Highlights included:
- Two participatory plenaries introducing Built by Nature’s Principles for Responsible Timber Construction, endorsed by many delegates and now being taken forward to COP30.
- Keynotes from the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs and Professor Calvin Jones, calling for ambition to be translated into practical delivery.
- Hands-on sessions on embodied carbon, regenerative materials, skills development, and sustainable forest management.
- Launch announcements from Woodknowledge Wales, including the new Timber Industry Yearbook 2025 and the Welsh translation of Sitka Spruce — The Amazing Timber Tree.
The report captures learning from workshops, roundtables and plenaries, showing clear progress since WoodBUILD 2024 — from exploratory dialogue to endorsed commitments and emerging pilot projects. Feedback confirms WoodBUILD’s continuing role as a trusted, cross-sector platform for connecting research, policy and practice.
Looking ahead, WoodBUILD 2026 will mark the conference’s ten-year milestone under the working theme NatureBUILD. It will extend the conversation to include landowners, farmers and sawmillers alongside the construction community.
