After almost a year of the project, the work of extracting the timber required for the regulatory certification of poplar wood for structural use was completed in August. In total, timber was extracted from six sources in Spain, two in the Genil Basin (Fuentevaqueros and Santa Fe in the province of Granada), two in the Duero Basin (Valencia de Don Juan and Villaornate in the province of León) and two in the Duero Basin (Remolinos in Zaragoza and Marcilla in Navarra). The extracted logs have been sawn respectively in the sawmills Toro (Granada), Valencia de Don Juan (León) and Pinosoria (Casarejos, Soria). The sawn and dried board is already undergoing destructive and non-destructive mechanical tests, with the aim of incorporating poplar wood from clones MC and Luisa Avanzo into the European standard EN 1912, as a structural species with the assignment of a resistant class T, thus promoting its use at the structural level and the development of the structural products proposed in the project.

These tasks, coordinated by the University of Granada, have had the support of other project partners (COSE and University of Santiago-Pemade), as well as the participation of IFAPA-Granada for the work of dasometric measurements in trees and the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Wood Construction Group) for technical advice on the normative certification of wood.

LIFE Wood for Future would like to thank all the poplar and wood owners who have collaborated in this activity, Agroservicios Hijo de Celedonio in Granada and Garnica Plywood in the Duero and Ebro basins. Special thanks to the researcher of the University of Granada, Francisco Rescalvo, who has efficiently managed a complex logistics at national level involving owners, cutters, transporters, dryers and sawmills, especially difficult in the current context of wood shortage and high transport and energy prices.