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In the last days we have received in PEMADE the company Simpson Strong Tie; the representative of the area and the export manager who came from France.

Last September, the Institute of Construction Technology (ITeC), partner of the EcoTimberCell project, participated in REBUILD 2021. This event aims to promote the transformation of the sector around three fundamental axes: industrialisation, sustainability and digitalisation.

Natalia Hermida, product manager of Cándido Hermida talked about the LIFE EcoTimberCell project in Galicia esRadio.

Exchange meeting between LIFE EcoTimberCell and LIFE CO2 PES&PEF to establish networks between both initiatives.

Last 9th October the World Championship 2021 took place in A Coruña and ESPIGA, Galician Association for BioConstruction, presented EcoTimberCell products in its stand and was able to contact the public attending the race, both participants as well as entertainers and visitors.

The Ecotimbercell lightened timber beam (ETC beam), developed in the LIFE EcoTimberCell project, among the two finalists in the research Category.

Next Wednesday, 27 October, we will close the second block of webinars focused on wood and its role in climate change mitigation. This will be the third day dedicated to this topic.

We met with Teresa Cervera, partner of the LIFE Climark project, to present both LIFE projects and to establish networks between both initiatives.

Next Wednesday, 20 October, from 17:00 to 18:30, we will continue talking about wood and its contribution to climate change mitigation.

Next Wednesday 13th October we will resume the EcoTimbercell webinars. This time we will talk about wood and its role in climate change mitigation.

Begoña Jiménez from Pemade, together with Juanjo Otero from Mol Arquitectura and Marcos Vázquez from Construcciones Conegal, presented on Si Radio the first single-family house built with ecological beams designed in the LIFE EcoTimberCell project.

Last Monday 20th September, LIFE EcoTimberCell attended a construction site in Ribadavia with the MOL Arquitectura studio, designers and directors of the project, where the first real demonstration of EcoTimberCell (ETC) double cells project has been placed.

World Sustainable Building Week 2021 takes place from 20 to 24 September 2021.

The characterisation of structural wood was the third topic chosen for the Ecotimbercell webinars.

We have published the fifth newsletter of the LIFE EcoTimberCell project. You can consult it in Spanish, Galician, Catalan and English, in the Resources section of our website.

Last June we held a meeting with the Wooden Construction Course of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

The participation in CONAMA 2020 allowed, in addition to the participation in the Ecodesign Competition and the organised activities of the Congress, the contact and dialogue with other LIFE and Horizon2020 projects, which work, from different disciplines and approaches, as the LIFE EcoTimberCell for the mitigation of climate change.

On 19 May we held a webinar on product certifications. This session is part of the working group of the EcoTimberCell project.

Last May we started to organise a series of webinars on the Galician forestry sector, wood and its contribution to climate change, and the work being carried out by LIFE EcoTimberCell.

The LIFE EcoTimberCell (ETC) project is a pilot project to validate and apply ETC structural products, thereby reducing CO2 emissions from construction, increasing the energy efficiency of housing and increasing the demand for wood from sustainable forest management.

During the month of June, the LIFE EcoTimberCell project has reached two important milestones: the project has been distinguished in the Ecodesign Contest of the National Environmental Congress and EcoTimberCell products have been supplied for a first construction site in Galicia.

From 17th to 19th June, we will be presenting the EcoTimberCell project at the XIII edition of ASTURFORESTA.