EDA 2015 Annual Convention scheduled for June 11th

The EDA has announced that its annual convention is happening between June 11-13th this year in Helsinki, Finland. If you would like to attend, then please register on the EDA website.

The program is as follows:

Thursday, June 11th

This meeting will be in Finnish only.

09:00 Meeting of the Finnish Demolition Industry

Organized in cooperation with the FDA (Finnish Demolition Association)

The following meetings and workshops will be in English only.

14:00 Workshop “Selective demolition: current practices and innovation”, presented and moderated by members of the European project HISER.

15:00 Visit demolition jobsite (in pararallel with the workshop “Accreditation of demolition contractors”)

15:30 Workshop “Accreditation of demolition contractors”.

• France
• Germany
• UK
• Denmark

17:30 EDA General Assembly

For EDA Board, National Associations and EDA members.

Friday, June 12th

09:00 Opening by Riikka Kinnune, moderator of the conference, FDA-YTP (Finland)

» Institutional Opening by Sirpa Pietikäinen, Member of the European Parliament (Finland)
» Welcome by Pilar de la Cruz, EDA President (Spain)

09:30 Conference session 1

» Guidelines for demolition of tower blocks - Barry Ward (UK)
» Pre-weakening of steel structures to enable demolition - Holly Price (UK)
» Case story: Demolition of tower blocks - Johannes Harzheim (Germany)

Coffee break & networking

11:30 Conference session 2

» Framework for demolition in The Netherlands - Edwin Zoontjes (The Netherlands)
» Circular economy: the approach of the European Commission - Vincent Basuyau (Belgium)
» Case story: Demolition of Koverhar steel mill - Jussi Niemelä (Finland)

Lunch & networking

14:15 Conference session 3

» Tracking demolition waste. The French model - Mathieu Hiblot (France)
» Trends of the European Demolition Industry - Thomas Lück (Germany)
» Croatian practices in demolition and use of recycled C&D Waste - Vedrana Lovincic (Croatia)

Coffee break & networking

16:30 Conference session 4

» Training of workers for hazardous waste decontamination Lars Sandström (Sweden)
» Working with explosives - Johan Finsteen (Denmark)
» European Professional Card for Demolition workers - Jose Blanco (EDA)

18:00 End of the Conference