PORTILAME took part in TimberWorQs 2026, the annual seminar dedicated to timber construction, held on February 11 and 12 at the Congress Center of LNEC in Lisbon. The event brings together professionals and institutions from across the sector to discuss architecture, engineering and sustainability.
Our participation focused on two key moments of the program: the Business Marketing session, which opened the event, and the roundtable discussion on innovation in construction, where trends, challenges and pathways to accelerate the adoption of industrialized timber systems in Portugal were explored.
Business Marketing Session: communicating value in a transforming sector
During the marketing session, PORTILAME presented its business with the participation of José Esteves, Commercial Director. He emphasized the importance of positioning timber construction as a concrete response to current market demands, including speed, predictability, quality and sustainability. He also highlighted the need for clear communication grounded in performance, engineering and confidence in execution.
Roundtable: innovation in construction
At the round table on innovation, João Veloso, General Director of Innovation and R&D, shared his vision of how innovation should translate into repeatable processes, greater control and predictability, reducing risk and improvisation and raising final quality. This approach is in line with the work carried out by our Innovation and R&D department, which transforms knowledge into construction methods, systems and solutions, reinforcing efficiency and control.
Among the topics highlighted were:
- The growth of off-site and industrialized solutions as a response to the need to shorten timelines, increase predictability and improve quality control
- The evolution from prefabricated components (1D) to panels (2D) and modules (3D), with modularity and flexibility as core principles to scale solutions without compromising adaptability to each project
- The importance of prototyping and technical validation, as well as collaboration with leading institutions, to accelerate the robustness and maturity of constructive solutions
Timber construction: an increasingly established reality
PORTILAME’s participation in TimberWorQs reinforces its ambition to actively contribute to the evolution of the sector in Portugal by promoting more industrialized, more predictable and more scalable timber construction capable of meeting current market demands and the sustainability goals of the industry.
TimberWorQs stands out as a key platform for debate and knowledge sharing, organized by institutions such as SerQ, LNEC and the University of Coimbra, with a program focused on knowledge creation, the dissemination of best practices and the promotion of innovation in a rapidly growing field.
