on 09 Mar 2021 9:24 AM
  • Sustainable Construction
  • conferences
  • wood

Many landowners in the Huéscar region are promoting the initiative to create an association of forest owners and a certification group for their products. In this scenario, local managers organised this conference to inform about the advantages and procedures of such actions by the secretary of PEFC Spain, Ana Belén Noriega, and the president of COSE, Francisco Carreño.

The conference also included two projects in which the University of Cordoba is working in relation to the enhancement of wood as a building material, one of them being the LIFE ReNatural NZEB project.

The day's programme included six main topics:

- Latest calls for aid to the forestry sector in Andalusia and assessment criteria.

- Reality and needs of forest territories. Relevance of associationism.

- Certification of Sustainable Forest Management.

- Sustainable Timber and Construction Operational Group.

- LIFE ReNatural NZEB Project. Reducing the environmental footprint of the construction sector through recycled and natural materials.

- Round table. Wood, material of the 21st century.