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Master in Timber Construction 2023-2024

Link to the official course website Introduction and presentation In just a few years, timber has become one of the mainstays of innovative construction. Its advantages have proved to be clearly competitive in a sector that consumes huge quantities of

Experimental Workshop II begins (Spring Semester 2023)

Roig A, Lara-Bocanegra AJ, Xavier J, Majano-Majano A (2022) Design Framework for Selection of Grid Topology and Rectangular Cross-Section Size of Elastic Timber Gridshells Using Genetic Optimisation. Applied Sciences 13(1):63.

Abstract This work presents a design framework for the selection of the topology and cross‐section size of elastic timber gridshells, taking as constraints the shape of the structure and the maximum value of bending stress that can be reached in

Antonio José Lara, Margarita Salas Research Award 2022

Antonio José Lara of ETSAMadera, Margarita Salas Research Award 2022. Secondary award in the category of Environmental Sciences for his doctoral thesis. Promoted by the Madrid City Council’s Delegate Area for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Margarita Salas Research Awards 2022

Eimil Fraga C, Feijóo Lomabo B, Fernández Lorenzo JL, Fernández Núñez E, Gontán Fraga P, Guaita Fernández M, Hinojo Sánchez B, Lara-Bocanegra AJ, Méndez López L, Penedo Souto S, Rigueiro Rodríguez A, Rodríguez Soalleiro RJ y Ruíz García L. (2021) El proyecto Life Lugo + Biodinámico como experiencia de educación Ecosocial. Congreso Internacional SIPS 2021, Educación Ambiental y Cultura de la Sostenibilidad: construyendo la transición ecológica, Lugo, España.

Abstract In 2014 the Lugo City Council submitted the application for the LIFE project Lugo + Biodynamic “planning of a multi-ecological neighbourhood as a model of urban resilience”, within the framework of the Climate Action sub-programme in the line of

Almudena Majano, winner of the ETSAM’s “Compás de Oro” Teaching Merit Awards

Professor Almudena Majano, from ETSAMadera, was awarded last October, during Architecture Week, in the “Compás de Oro” teaching merit awards in the categories of Best Undergraduate Teaching and Best Second Year Teaching at ETSAM this year. “[…] I would like

Gómez-Royuela JL, Majano-Majano A, Lara-Bocanegra AJ, Xavier J, De Moura M (2022) Shear traction‐separation laws of European beech under mode II loading by 3D digital image correlation. Wood Science and Technology 56(6)

ENF test set-up coupled with 3D DIC: (1) 300 kN load cell, (2) 5 kN load cell, (3) loading nose, (4) LVDT, (5) LVDT, (6) beech specimen, (7) speckle pattern, (8) supports, (9) DIC system equipment, (10) electro-mechanical testing machine

“EQUIPAMIENTO PÚBLICO: IMPULSO VERDE” at the Mass Timber Seminar – Meeting with the world of timber. Valencia from 2-4 October.

The Impulso Verde Building in Lugo will be present at the Mass Timber Seminar 2022, organised by Rothoblaas and based in Valencia from 2-4 October. It will be two days dedicated to timber construction professionals with a full program of

“A green building should aspire to be like a tree, to improve the environment in which it is implanted”. Interview with Antonio José Lara in CUPA Pizarras

The Impulso Verde building in Lugo won the CUPA Pizarras ‘Best of the Best’ competition for the best project of 2021 with natural slate. Antonio José Lara Bocanegra, architect and researcher at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, reveals the secrets of

Lara-Bocanegra, A.J. (2022) Elastic timber gridshells. From material to construction (PhD Thesis).

Author: Lara-Bocanegra, A.J. Supervisor: Guaita Fernández, M. & Arriaga Martitegui, F. University: Higher Tech. School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM) | Tech. University of Madrid (UPM) https://oa.upm.es/70673 Abstract Elastic timber gridshells are a highly efficient and architecturally expressive structural solution