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).
A group of farmers in the province of Granada, under the coordination of the Confederation of Organizations of Foresters of Spain (COSE), has launched a pilot test under an agroforestry system that combines, for the first time in Spain, poplar trees and hemp for industrial use.
For a GREENER Andalusia with more local industry.
The LIFE Wood for Future project has been the protagonist of one of the episodes of Hoy por Hoy of Radio Granada Cadena Ser to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the radio station.
The seventh edition of the LIFE Wood For Future Newsletter is now available, where you can consult the latest news of the project.
In this link you can see the dissemination video of the Agrupación Marjal promoted by the LIFE Madera para el Futuro project through the actions of COSE with the collaboration of IFAPA.
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).
