"Forests that offer some kind of benefit burn worse. We must encourage traditional and innovative uses that keep the forest safe," says Gabriel Gutiérrez, president of the Andalusian Forestry Association.
The coordinator of the LIFE Wood for Future project gave the inaugural lecture at the opening ceremony of the 2022-2023 academic year at the Royal Hospital, headquarters of the Rectorate, on Saturday, September 10. Under the title "From Góngora's green lyre to industrialized construction with wood: a walk through innovation".
On June 22, the sixth meeting of the Poplar Producers Association (Action C1-E1) was held in the Graduation Hall of the School of Building Engineering (Granada), chaired by the Vice President, Juan Carlos Cano, and Patricia Gómez, manager of COSE, with presentations by Mª Ángeles Ripoll and other members of the Association's Board of Directors, and attended by approximately 30 people.
Sawmills are often small and medium-sized local businesses that process wood for local customers and employ local people, generating employment and local economies in rural areas. They are a perfect example of sustainable rural development, with a positive impact on the regional and even national economy.
After almost a year of the project, the work of extracting the timber required for the regulatory certification of poplar wood for structural use was completed in August. In total, wood has been extracted from 6 sources in Spain, two in the Genil Basin (Fuentevaqueros and Santa Fe in the province of Granada), two in the Duero Basin (Valencia de Don Juan and Villaornate in the province of León) and two in the Duero Basin (Remolinos in Zaragoza and Marcilla in Navarra).
The 'Chopo Activo' project, by architects Ignacio de Teresa, Lucía de Molina, Xianjun Zhou and Ignacio Hornillos, has received a mention in the competition for the design of the temporary pavilion of the TAC! Urban Architecture Festival, launched by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (Mitma), in collaboration with the Arquia Foundation.
Generating synergies with the Municipal Chamber of Évora. Networking day between the projects LIFE Água da Prata and LIFE EcoTimberCell and LIFE Wood for Future, taking advantage of the visit of the environmental technician of the City Council of Évora to the PEMADE facilities at the Campus Terra of the University of Santiago de Compostela.
LIFE Madera para el Futuro researchers will be the first to be installed in the new spaces of the BIC industrial building of the San Isidro Sugar Factory. This is an emblematic building where the white revolution, or beet revolution, began in the Vega de Granada.
The Provincial Council of Granada has included the pilot project of a new Bauhaus based on poplar, to promote and facilitate an industry of structural laminates of local poplar wood in the province, promoting its use in local sustainable construction.
The LIFE Wood for Future project and the record price of poplar wood on the market have encouraged the creation in the province of three new certified plant nurseries in the last two years. Given the signs of revival of this traditional crop, entrepreneurs Juan Carlos Cano, Curro Santos and Isaac Rodriguez, all based in Santa Fe, in the Vega de Granada, have opted to exponentially expand the area dedicated to the breeding of new plants to supply their own poplar groves and supply the foresters of the environment.
