The award, endowed with 3,000 euros, recognizes "innovation, value creation, sustainability and contribution to social and economic development" of this company promoted by the European project LIFE Wood for Future and established in 2023 by researchers and poplar and pine forest owners in the province of Granada.

The coordinator of LIFE Wood for Future and members of the board of directors of the Andalusian spinoff Iberolam Timber & Technology visit the Prefabricados Rodiñas facilities in Curtis where the prototypes of these innovative mixed wood-concrete structural products are being developed.

Destroying an ecosystem that acts as a great carbon sink, such as the Vega, with the pretext of installing solar panels that avoid carbon emissions, sacrificing its population, has no scientific logic.

On April 26th, the LIFE Wood for Future project was presented during the 28th Profemadera Conference held on April 25th and 27th in Almeria.

IberoLam Timber&Technology, a spinoff of the University of Granada, launches IberoLam Timber Academy, a new training forum on wood construction in Spanish.

Yesterday afternoon took place at USC-Pemade (Lugo) the first test of the full-scale mixed wood-concrete precast system consisting of two tension laminated timber beams and a compression concrete slab (MCLamBS system).

On April 20, LIFE Wood for Future staff participated in the field day of the Revierte project, funded by the Biodiversity Foundation within the call for Forest Bioeconomy projects.

Last week the coordinator of the LIFE Wood for Future project gave a lecture at the Maderamen Chair on the transfer of the structural projects of the project through the spinoff IberoLam Timber&Technology.

The Ateneo de Granada hosted yesterday April 3 the conference "The poplar in the Vega de Granada. Years of history with a great future" given by Professor Antolino Gallego, coordinator of LIFE Wood for the Future. During the talk and subsequent enriching debate, the environmental, social and economic benefits of poplar crops were highlighted, as well as the opportunity offered to the sector by the current significant growth of industrialized construction with wood.

With energy savings of up to 80%, this house is the first example of a large European project originating in Granada that seeks to integrate poplar wood in the industry for the construction of 'passive' houses.