The Consejería de Fomento, Articulación del Territorio y Vivienda de la Junta de Andalucía promotes through AVRA (Agencia de la Vivienda y Rehabilitación de Andalucía) the construction of a pilot demonstration building of the mixed wood-concrete prefabricated product, MCLamBS, developed in the LIFE Wood for Future project.
On March 17, Francisco Rescalvo, PhD of the University of Granada, presented at the Cosecha Sannas event the spinoff strategy to launch from the LIFE Wood for Future project an industrial ecosystem based on local wood from Andalusia.
After 18 months of work, the LIFE Wood for Future project has exceeded 4,000 attendees at project events and 300 news items in the written or digital press. The poplar, the tree of the people, was also the protagonist in the Inaugural Lecture of the Academic Year at the University of Granada in September 2022.
Today February 16, 2023 has taken place at the Centro Cultural CajaGranada Memoria de Andalucía in Granada, an event under the Erasmus + Program "Act For Enviroment" with the assistance of students and teachers from training centers in Romania, Portugal, Croatia, Greece and the centers IES Hispanidad of Santa Fe and IES Angel Ganivet of Granada
Researchers from LIFE Wood for the Future and poplar producers from Marjal met last Tuesday, February 14 with Roberto Álvarez and his Innovation and Digital Transformation team from the Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Services and Navigation of Granada.
La Presidenta del IFAPA, Doña Marta Bosquet, expresidenta del Parlamento Andaluz, ha conocido de primera mano en el centro IFAPA Camino del Purchil los avances del proyecto en el año y medio de actividad. Tras tres horas de reunión técnica y visita final a las parcelas demostrativas, Marta Bosquet ha conocido el alcance del proyecto y el importante papel que el IFAPA ha jugado, juega y jugará para construir una cadena de valor de la madera técnica estructural en Andalucia con el chopo como especie impulsora del mismo cultivada en terrenos agrícolas de las vegas de Granada y Andalucia.
The AFA (Andalusian Forestry Association) Assembly yesterday in Algodonales (Cádiz) breathed a powerful air of hope based on an intense and wise work in 2022 led by its president Gabriel A. Gutiérrez Tejada.
At the initiative of COSE and Marjal, the Directorate General of Forestry Policy and Biodiversity of the Ministry of Sustainability, Environment and Blue Economy of the Regional Government of Andalusia, has approved the creation of a Working Group to support the technical and administrative work for the development and approval of a standard model of Sustainable Forest Management for Poplar Plantations in Andalusia.
Yesterday, Thursday, a group of students studying dual vocational training in the cycle "Interior works, decoration and rehabilitation" in the CIFP Coroso-Ribeira (province of A Coruña) have known the LIFE Wood for Future through various activities carried out in the facilities of the Structural Wood Engineering Platform (PEMADE) integrated in the University of Santiago de Compostela and located in the EPSE in the campus of Lugo
Granada, which has been dazzling the world for almost eight centuries with the wooden coffered ceilings of its royal Nasrid palace, the Alhambra, now stands at the epicenter of a social, economic and environmental movement unprecedented in our recent forestry history, due to the repercussions that the new uses of wood will have on the way we look at the forest.
