The laboratory of the Structural Wood Research Unit (UIMA) of the UGR, the coffered ceilings of the Alhambra and the Royal Hospital, and the footbridge over the Monachil River are some of its focuses of interest. The training programme responds to the need for specialisation in innovative materials on the part of architecture and engineering professionals, in view of the boom in sustainable construction with wood.
The sixth edition of the Newsletter of the LIFE Wood For Future project is now available, where you can consult the latest news of the project.
Her name is Eva Chacón, she is an architect and head of the Bonsai studio, which is now in its 10th year of designing energy-sustainable and environmentally friendly housing. The studio's first major milestone was the construction of a building on Cuenca Street, in the capital of Granada, where Andalusian woods were used to configure a construction that responds to the studio's maxims: sustainable, efficient and organic architecture, inspired by nature itself.
Granada, December 20, 2023. The Andalusian forestry sector, through the LIFE Wood for the Future project, the Confederation of Organizations of Foresters of Spain (COSE), the Forestry Association of Andalusia (AFA-Profor), the Association of Forest Owners of Eastern Andalusia Foret, the Association of Producers Marjal Chopo and spinoff IberoLam, celebrates the progress that has occurred in recent days in areas of international decision in favor of sustainable construction.
The pilot private house of the LIFE Wood for Future project incorporates laminated beams of poplar wood from the Vega de Granada and laricio pine from the Sierra de Cazorla designed by the UGR spinoff IberoLam Timber & Technology. A family from Zaidín promotes this ecological and almost zero consumption house in which materials and thermal insulation allow energy savings of 80%.
Granada, November 30, 2023. The rector of the University of Granada, Pedro Mercado, and the mayor of Santa Fe, Juan Cobo, signed on Wednesday a collaboration protocol that provides for the transfer of the former 19th century Señor de la Salud sugar factory to the spinoff IberoLam Timber&Technology, created in 2022 by the Structural Wood Research Unit of Andalusia (UIMA) and promoted by the European project LIFE Wood for Future, led by the UGR.
On November 24, 50 students from the Institute of Secondary Education Arabuleila (Cúllar Vega) of the technological branch visited the facilities of the UIMA (Wood Research Unit of Andalusia) and the LIFE Wood for the Future project.
The coordinator of the LIFE Wood for the Future project, in its eagerness and objective to influence policies to improve the quality of life of citizens and the state of the Planet, had yesterday November 21 a working meeting with the Delegate of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development of the Junta de Andalucía in Granada, Ms. María del Carmen Reyes, along with her technical team. On the table the reactivation of the implementation of aid for poplar cultivation in the new CAP schemes.
100 students of the Instituto de Enseñanza Secundaria La Hispanidad de Santa Fe have known first hand the LIFe Wood for Future project through a talk by its coordinator, Prof. Antolino Gallego, today Tuesday, November 21, 2023.Starting from the history of poplar, a crop born nationally in Santa Fe through D. Diego Liñan in the late nineteenth century, Prof. Gallego has outlined the environmental benefits of poplar and the opportunity of this economic sector to return to the construction of our homes through structural technical wood products.
Professor Manuel Guaita, director of USC-Pemade, presented the model for the valorization of local wood in the structural products MCLam and MCLam BS at a conference organized by the Association of Wood Entrepreneurs of Navarra (ADEMAN).
