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.
The Agrupación de Productores Marjal Chopo de Granada held an extraordinary assembly this Monday in which it approved its first membership increase, in which 28 new owners joined the 73 founders, which allows the entity to reach one hundred members, with a total of 1,416 hectares of crops.
The banks of the river Dílar, as it passes through the municipality of Vegas del Genil, has from today, February 6, with new trees and plants, after an act of reforestation, which involved more than 100 schoolchildren in 6th grade of primary school in the municipality CEIP Virgen de los Remedios, Virgen de los Dolores and La Almohada.
The company Iberolam T&T, a spinoff of the UGR created for the future manufacture of structural products of the LIFE Wood for the Future project, creates a joint collaboration unit with the UIMA laboratory (Structural Wood Research Unit of Andalusia) of the University of Granada to offer a comprehensive service of consulting, calculation, 3D design by Cadwork and on-site inspection of wooden structures.
The poetry of Francisco Vaquero, the photographs of 22 professionals or amateurs, the sound work of composer José López Montes in the poplar groves and the piano performance of Ignacio J. Daza merge in a video promoted by the LIFE Wood for Future project, Agrupación Marjal and the spinoff Iberolam to raise awareness of the cultural value of poplar groves.
The XIV Meeting of the OTRI Andalusia Network took place from 29 to 31 January. A meeting that brought together more than 70 knowledge transfer professionals from all public universities in Andalusia and other knowledge agents.
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.
