The President of the Production Council Pablo Bovino and the Secretary of Productive Development and Citizen Participation Guillermo Satalía Mendez, together with other members of the Council, visited the institution and discussed the Construction of Wooden Housing, the CEDEFI, the Wood and Forest Industry Housing Expo held in Concordia, and the Forestry Workshops to be held in September.
The representatives of the Municipality of Concordia, Pablo Bovino (Councilman and President of the Production Council) and Guillermo Satalía Méndez (Secretary of Productive Development and Citizen Participation) were received at the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) by Engineer Martín Sánchez Acosta and Engineer Ciro Mastrandrea.
The purpose of the visit, promoted by Mayor Enrique Cresto, was to exchange ideas regarding the production and commercialization of wood, as well as to tour the institution and discuss the construction of wooden housing, the CEDEFI, the Wood and Forest Industry Housing Expo held in Concordia, and the Forestry Workshops to be held in September.
It should be recalled that, together with other institutions, INTA has been developing the use of wood in construction for more than 20 years, providing information and technical assistance as well as training on wood, wood uses, wooden construction systems, and other topics.
It was built in 2006, through training and research courses within the framework of the El Alambrado project, “The El Alambrado log cabin” and subsequently in 2007 “The Canadian House”, for which specialists from Canada arrived in Concordia. The training courses had more than 300 participants.
These activities were strengthened after the creation in 2008 of the Foundation for the Forest-Industrial Development of Entre Ríos (FunDeFI) and the Center for Forest-Industrial Development of Entre Ríos (CEDEFI).
The CEDEFI was created with the objective of coordinating the actions of the forest-industrial sector. Its foundation was crystallized between public-private institutions such as IMFER, INTA, INTI, UNER, UCU, UADER, UTN, Municipality of Concordia, CAFESG, and AFOA (among others).
Finally, it is important to highlight that the specialists from the UTN of Concepción del Uruguay are the authors of the Argentine regulation for Structural Calculation for wooden structures CIRSOC 601.