Project Activities
Project Activities
• Investigating and monitoring biodeteriorations (wood destroying fungi and insects) in wooden buildings or wooden-structure buildings; and developing environment-friendly methods for halting the spread of attacks. Up to 150 buildings are being investigated, 107 of which are located in Estonia.
• Monitoring wood damaging beetles in forests on Ruhnu, Kihnu and Vormsi Islands, finding relations between insects in buildings and in the forest, and between their population .
• Organizing fieldwork on wooden cultural heritage on Kizhi and Valaam Island.
• Publishing a handbook of wood destroying insects and fungi.
• Establishing a laboratory for identifying fungal and beetle damage.
• Treating churches on Ruhnu, Saaremaa and Vormsi islands against the attacks of wood destroying insects and fungi, and the primary strengthening of constructions.
• Bringing top scientists, who study the durability of wood and conservation to Estonia, Gotland and Åland and involving them in studies of historical buildings and wooden structures.
• Organizing 35 seminars and trainings for researchers from Estonia and Gotland, householders and other people interested.
• Making three educational films (fungal infections in houses, wood boring insects in houses and treatment timber structures in houses).
• Seminars, lectures and work-shops in Gotland, Åland, Petrozavodsk and Estonia
• Establishing a rural architecture research and training centre. Drawing up renovation projects for Liberty Summer Manors on the territory of the Estonian Open Air Museum, planning a counseling centre and exhibition.
• Organizing an international conference on the durability of wooden structures at the Estonian University of Life Sciences www.bwwp2013.eu
• Publishing conference proceedings












