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Who should do what? 

National authorities 
  • Take advantage of the industrial capacities and accumulated knowledge to build a domestic market for timber construction, benefiting from the results nationally, not only from exports. 
  • Draft legislation and regulation with clearly defined quantifiable goals. 
  • Investigate strategic tax incentives and regulatory measures. 
  • Set up steering groups or ‘task forces’ of experts. 
  • Accelerate action by identifying and supporting triple helix collaborations. 
Regions  
  • Pool resources together across regions and national borders to enable educational and knowledge sharing opportunities. 
  • Identify pioneering municipalities and private actors and support them e.g. in applying for EU funding. 
Municipalities  
  • Work with residents to make reforms and renovations relevant to their needs.  
  • Induce market creation via planning systems and master plans, green procurement, land-allocation agreements, public-private risk-sharing schemes. 
  • Broadcast a vision for sustainable buildings. 
  • Benchmark good practices to share with other municipalities. 
  • Create pressure for low-emissions construction on publicly owned land developments. 
Academia & technical research 
  • Assist knowledge creation and knowledge transfer, create new more flexible education and training modules and cooperation programs. 
Industry Associations/ organisations  
  • Support education institutes in bridging education and industry closer together and training students 
  • Support municipalities in building capacities for how to work with timber construction, by preparing easily understandable material on good practices from other countries, or regions and by engaging them in events, study visits, roundtable discussions, etc.  
Banks & financiers  
  • Develop new credit schemes for off-site - industrialised (prefabricated) construction systems as opposed to current schemes based on progress of the construction on-site. 
  • Continue developing green financing schemes. 
  • Evaluate possible prejudice and disproportionate barriers on the way of timber and prefab construction. For instance, re-evaluate risk assessments by considering the existing built stock in neighbouring countries.