9th Annual Conference of the Construction History Society, Cambridge April 1-3, 2022

The 9th annual conference of the Construction History Society will return this year to Queens' College, Cambridge. The first day of the conference is dedicated to the topic of timber in historical construction, on the second day speakers report from current research projects. Once again, several people from our research group will be represented, with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan M. Holzer giving a keynote address on Saturday afternoon.

All sessions will also be offered as free Zoom webinars - the Download links to the sessions can be found in the conference program.

From our group there are the following presentations (chronologically):

• Kylie Russnaik: Timber Roof Structures of 19th-century Casinos in Switzerland (Friday, Session 1)
• Clemens Knobling: From model to reality – a case study on the timber bridge of Baden, CH (Friday, Session 2)
• Martin Gantner: Innovation and Tradition: 'Signature' roof constructions and master builder’s networks in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in in the catholic regions of central, northern and eastern Switzerland (Saturday, Session 9)
• Stefan M. Holzer: How to errect a roof truss (Saturday, Keynote)
• Martina Diaz, Louis Vandenabeele: The eighteenth-century timber trade towards the Basilica of St Anthony in Padua through archives, shipping marks and dendrochronology (Saturday, Session 9)
• Manuel Maissen: Early Iron Bridges in Switzerland 1850-1875: A Primer (Saturday, Session 10)
• Louis Vandenabeele: The Paduan ties of Poleni (Saturday, Session 12)