Grants for Rehabilitation with Wood as structural element

An interesting subsidy has been published for all those projects that use wood as a structural element in construction, worth 2.6 million euros. It is a call with an investment for this financial year 2022 of 300,000 euros, and 2.3 million for the year 2023. The call has been made effective this Thursday, October 13, through publication in the Official Gazette of Galicia.

This call has a non-competitive nature, so they will be granted, in order of presentation. The percentage of aid will be 70% of the investments made and may be increased by 10% in the case of using a wood or wood-derived product that comes from sustainably managed Galician forests (with PEFC or FSC certifications).

The destination of these subsidies is the new construction, rehabilitation or reform of buildings, warehouses and business establishments that use wood products as structural elements and provided that, at least, 20% of the material execution budget of the project corresponds to wood products. wood or derivatives of wood (including its placement). These will be used for structural purposes or as compartmentalization, enclosure or finishing systems.

Both the drafting of projects and the use of wood products in new construction, rehabilitation or reform of buildings, warehouses and business establishments that use wood products as structural elements will be eligible. The maximum amount of the total accumulated subsidy per beneficiary will be 70,000 euros for SMEs and associations, organizations, foundations and non-profit entities and 50,000 euros for individuals.

The maximum period to present the justification of the subsidized activities will end on December 15, 2022 for the first year, and for the second on June 30, 2023 -the execution will not have to be completed at the time of justification of the request for aid-.