Wood has always been as raw material used for human over centuries because its quality. Environmentally wood has many advantages, that make it the first choice for today thanks to the minimal harmful impact for the environment.
Compared to another building material like steel or concrete, the usage of wood could lead to the less amount of bad consequences for the environment. As it can say, wood has low embodied energy needed in term of processing. The impact consists in the following: wood manufacturing and operating have a minimal impact on the environment. Concrete needs 5 times and steel 6 times more energy to produce than timber. Besides, using 1 cubic meter of timber will save 0.8 tones of CO2 of our atmosphere.
Wood interacts with its surrounding constantly, and becomes more popular choice of people thanks to its features. Acting as the natural air conditioner, wood keeps temperature in a room in an invarible state. If the humidity is high, wood absorbs moisture and vice versa; if the humidity is low it emits moisture. The natural cooling and heating effect is provided by wood since it tends to regulate the weather of surrounding.
For thousands of years the cedar considers to be a unique heat isolating material. More over perfect structure and wood pattern win without a rival other woods. Without any problems the cedar survive in nasty weather; the house, made from cedar ...
Wood has been an excellent natural building material in history. In some countries like Finland, wood has always been the main building material because it acquired the popularity centuries ago. This country even made significant investments in the ...
For drying logs and timbers we use vacuum infrared drying technology. New generation vacuum infrared dryer is environmentally friendly, runs on electricity and excludes any emissions of pollutants in the atmosphere. This technology is unique for ...
Special attention to a wooden houses electricity and power supply system is given on a designing stage. Wooden house electricity supply project is a special document that allows you to answer important questions: How much electricity is needed for a ...
Krummenacker project frame house was built in September – November 2010 in Saint-Quirin, France. This house was built for private customer that now uses it for living and renting. We have started from the beginning in September. Even rainy weather ...
Living in a healthy house is more than merely a short term choice for the homeowner. Fresh either indoor or outdoor of the house influences on health of people, who live in the house. People could feel better and healthier choosing house building ...
Glued laminated beams production. The dried boards are shaved on all four sides to ensure accurate geometry. Then the boards are glued together under pressure with a special glue, which does not affect the air permeability of the wood. Glue gets ...
Heating in a wooden house is one of its major engineering systems. It consists of interconnected elements that generate heat and distribute it to all areas of a wooden house. Absolutely no matter what construction material is used. Whether it was ...
Recently, downtown city people choose wood to have most dominant buildings. This is because of the advantage emerged when wood is used as the house material. Wood framing is known as comfortable and economcal concerning the climate. It helps the ...
The height of pine trees is usually 20 - 40 meters. Pine is a fast-growing species, and at the same time pine tree lives 300 - 500 years on the average. The annual growth of pines in height under favorable growing conditions can be between 0.8 - 1 ...
Wooden houses, which have a great popularity in Canada, USA and European countries, recently become more and more popular in Turkey. More over, earlier Turks build just a small summer house and nowadays they think about living in a spacious wooden ...