University of Santiago de Compostela presents results of the LIFE EcoTimberCell project in Granada
LIFE Wood for Future Conference on the use, industrial transformation and new uses of Andalusian wood.
The coordinator of the LIFE EcoTimberCell project, Manuel Guaita, director of the Platform of Structural Wood Engineering of the University of Santiago de Compostela, Campus Terra de Lugo, presented the results of the LIFE EcoTimberCell project at the conference organised by the School of Building Engineering of the University of Granada in the framework of the LIFE Wood for Future project.
These conferences sought to respond to the growing demand for more sustainable solutions that allow the industrialisation of the entire construction process. Wood, a material with a biological base and extraordinary mechanical properties and numerical control machining, is currently considered to be the most appropriate for this transformation in the sector.
According to the organisers of this event, the growing interest in wood as a building component offers an enormous opportunity for the Andalusian forestry sector, both for timber species of the Mediterranean forest (pine) and for forestry crops (poplar), and for the creation of a new ecosystem of forest management and processing industries.
In addition to the University of Granada, the conference counted on the active participation of the universities of Huelva and Cordoba and the Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training (Ifapa) of the Andalusian Regional Government under the umbrella of the LIFE Wood for Future project.
