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.
