Project meeting in Madrid (online due to Covid-19)

Researchers and industrial partners will meet online from the 15^th to the 16^th of April to share their results and plan the next steps in the InFutUReWood project. Project meetings are biannual and this is the 5^th meeting (Table 1).

Table 1. InFutUReWood project meetings

Around 40 people from 7 European countries are expected to attend the meeting. The meeting will be hosted by Daniel F. Llana, Violeta González-Alegre and Prof. Guillermo Íñiguez-González, members of the Timber Construction Research Group of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Unfortunately, the meeting will be online due to Covid-19 and the attendees cannot visit university facilities, the Forestry School arboretum, and some timber structures in Madrid as was planned.

In addition to Spanish academic partner participation, several Spanish companies, and students will present their works during the meeting inside different work packages (WP):

• WP2: Nova Domus Hábitat (InFutUReWood industrial partner)
• WP4: Pablo Batista (final year student of Architecture)
• WP5: Astur-Araba S.L. (collaborating company)

Fig. 1 School of Forest Engineering and Natural Resources (source: El Arboreto de Montes)

Fig. 2 Timber laboratory at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Fig. 3 Testing recovered timber at the INIA Structural Timber Laboratory (source: Carlos Osuna-Sequera)

Fig. 4 Campus swimming pool

Fig. 5 Medical College of Madrid 1831

Fig. 6 Roof structure of the Spanish parliament building 1850

Fig. 7 Outdoor auditorium in “El Paraíso” park