This second issue of the Innochain Network Journal was assembled and edited by ITKE and presents the network events and training activities that took place in the first six months of the Innochain ETN network.

Lead beneficiary for the journal: ITKE
Edited by: J. Knippers, E. Slabbinck and J. Solly

With Contributions from:
Alexandre Dubor
Angelos Chronis
Arthur Prior
Bob Sheil
Dimitrie A. Stefanescu
Djordje Stanojevic
Efilena Baseta
Evy Slabbinck
Giulio Brugnaro
Helena Westerlind
Hélène Frichot
James Solly
Jan Knippers
Kasper Ax
Martin Tamke
Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen
Paul Poinet
Peter Scully
Saman Saffarian
Sean Hanna
Stephanie Chaltiel
Stephen Gage,
Tom Svilans
Vasily Sitnikov
Vicente Soler
Zeynep Aksoz

Following the Start-Up Seminar in March there have been several scientific training courses and the workshop-seminar series 1 held by five of the Academic Partners, generating significant scientific output. It is our pleasure to be able to present some of those results within these pages.

The Innochain Journal #1 describes these events. It emphasises the workshop-seminars. The workshop-seminars are dual training events combining a hands-on workshop in which particular methods and tools are shared with a contextualising seminar with expert presentations. The workshop-seminars link to the 3 scientific work packages, Communicating Design (WP3), Simulation for Design (WP4) and Materialising Design (WP5), and hold a particular industry focus. The workshop-seminars were run respectively by CITA, ITKE and BSA.

The workshops series 1.0 examined the overarching topic: advanced timber construction. Undertaken in reverse order Workshop-Seminar 1.3 Materialising Design allowed ESRs to explore the planning, steering and undertaking of robotic fabrication of timber elements, Workshop-Seminar 1.2 Simulation for Design examined design integrated simulation and Workshop-Seminar 1.1 Communicating Design asked ESRs investigated the differences that advanced timber construction can make in architecture.