The Spanish Association for Standardization (UNE) and the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) have recently approved the inclusion of poplar clones MC and Luisa Avanzo of Spanish origin in the list of sawn timber suitable for structural use in buildings.

The heads of the LIFE Wood for Future and Be Wooden projects met for the first time to get to know these projects first hand. This meeting has served to confirm the many points in common that these projects have and above all the complementarity between them.

The Pemade team of the University of Santiago de Compostela at the Lugo Campus has carried out the first bending tests of the first full-scale wood-concrete composite slab prototype manufactured by Iberolam Timber & Technology in Granada.

The LIFE WOOD FOR THE FUTURE project has participated in the Sustainable Development Forum of the Guadix Region, held on July 4 at the Mira de Amescua Municipal Theater, presenting the progress of the project and the potential of poplar cultivation and its industrial products as a driving force for the development of the region.

During the month of July 2024, 16 students have been trained in 3D modeling of wooden structures thanks to the collaboration between the company Cadwork Ibérica and the LIFE Wood for Future project.

In the framework of the last CIMAD 2024 held in Madrid, the LIFE Wood for Future, LIFE+REB and LIFE Haya projects shared the objectives and activities developed by each of the projects and evaluated the possible interactions or synergies.

As part of the Xuvenciencia summer campus, USC-Pemade has received the visit of 2 groups of young people to carry out an interactive activity to introduce and promote local wood construction, explaining its environmental importance and the results of mitigating climate change.

During the end of June and beginning of July, the first edition of the course "Wood as a Building Material" has been developed, launched by the spinoff Iberolam Timber & Technology through the Iberolam Timber Academy platform.

The LIFE Wood for Future project has participated in the III Ibero-Latin American Congress on Wood in Construction (CIMAD 2024), held in Madrid. This congress is the most important event on construction and wood in countries with Hispanic and Portuguese roots.

On behalf of the research teams of the Universities of Santiago de Compostela (USC_Pemade), Granada (UGR-UIMA), and the companies Prefabricados Rodiñas and Iberolam Timber & Technology (spinoff of the UGR), the coordinator Antolino Gallego, presented the innovative structural products of the LIFE Wood for Future project (poplar-pine mixed beams and prefabricated pi slabs for mixed wood-concrete floors).