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Wood for a City with Identity and a Sustainable Future
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By Frane Zilic, Manager of the Biobío Wood Regional Strategic Program
Los Ángeles is a city that coexists with forests and plantations. It lies at the geographic heart of the forestry sector, and its relationship with wood is not only productive but also cultural. Here, wood is part of everyday life, traditional constructions, employment, and the landscape. Los Ángeles has a significant advantage that can be leveraged to transform it into a benchmark for sustainable development.
On this path, wood construction emerges as a strategic opportunity. Wood is a renewable resource, grown with solar energy and recyclable. It allows replacing petroleum-based materials, reducing carbon footprints, and generating local value. Today, Chile produces nearly 96% of its dry sawn wood in the south-central part of the country, and 80% comes directly from the Biobío region. This is where the raw material, technical knowledge, and experience reside.
Corfo Biobío, through the Biobío Wood Regional Strategic Program, has driven this vision: promoting wood construction as an engine for productive innovation, sustainable development, and decentralization. This strategy seeks to bring together public, private, and academic stakeholders around new construction methods, design platforms, and industrialized solutions that create space for regional SMEs, trained to take on this challenge.
The Chilean Chamber of Construction in Los Ángeles is actively participating in this agenda, committed to decisively advancing the development of wood-based construction solutions. Its role is key to integrating local capabilities, fostering innovation, and projecting new ways of living that better align with the region's conditions.
Envisioning a city that uses wood is not just about imagining buildings—it’s about thinking of an ecosystem that connects construction companies, suppliers, design platforms, universities, and public institutions around a logic of innovation, proximity, and efficiency. It’s recognizing that a livable city is also one that engages with its rural surroundings, creates local opportunities, and builds from what it already has.
Los Ángeles has everything it takes to position itself as a national benchmark in wood construction. Not out of nostalgia, but through technological leadership, strategy, identity, and a sustainable future.
Source:La Tribuna
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