The Life Haya Project – Hardwood for The Home, the new project that will improve the adaptation to climate change of beech forests and their biodiversity, begins. Sustainable forest management will be essential to extract wood for the development of innovative products and a new construction system ‘Hayabitat’.
The project, which will develop a silvicultural model based on CLOSE TO NATURE FORESTRY (CNF), will work in 10 demonstration stands of 20 hectares located in 10 Public Utility forests in 4 regions of Spain (Navarra, La Rioja, Castilla-León and the Basque Country).
It will generate 250 tons of wood that will be used to develop innovative beech wood products with long carbon retention life: glulam (MLE) and cross-laminated timber (CLT).
A new construction system ‘Hayabitat’ will be developed to build a pilot demonstration building which will become the first building certified in sustainable forest management under the PEFC standard and will also be certified as a passive building under the ‘passivhaus‘ standard.
