Reasons to choose the wood to build your house

Because...

• the wood is renewable;
• the wood needs little energy for its industrial production and transformation;
• the wood is biodegradable and easily recyclable;
• the wood is healthy: "if you are ill, consult your doctor, if he can not do anything for you, go and live in a timber house" (chinese saying);
• the wood is an excellent thermical and hygrometric regulator;
• the great architectural flexibility avoids air conditioning and heat that consume much energy and therefore leads to an important economy of energy and money;
• all the insulating material are ecological and natural, that fit greatly to the framework;
• the timber houses fit very well to every ground and seismic regions;
• the deadline of construction and assembly of a wooden house is very quick.

Do you know that?

• the wood has a great mechanical resistance since a beam of 3 meters log is able to carry 20 tones weighs 300 kg in reinforced concrete, 80 kg in steel, and only 60 kg in wood
• the wood is an excellent thermal insulator. As for instance, a wooden panel of 3 cm wide=45 cm of concrete=18 cm of brick. If you look at the Scandinavian or Canadian who live in a much colder aera, they consume twice less than us, that’s a convincing evidence
• the wood is light and therefore easy to transport

• in the case of a fire, the wood is the only material that is able to keep its mechanical properties. Moreover it transmits ten times less quickly the eat than the concrete and 250 times less quickly than the steel
• the wood does not explode but burns slowly
• thanks to its properties, the wood is considered as a reliable material. Actually, the fireman are allowed to intervene a longer time under a wooden house frame work than under a concrete one
• the insurances do not ask any more extra premium to insure a wooden house against fires
• the local communities choose the wood to build the community such retirement homes, schools, day-nurseries, gymnasium...
• the wood does not emit any radioactivity, dangerous gases, allergic dust or static electricity

The wooden houses are omnipresent in the countries which have a high standart of living

• 90% in the United States and Canada
• 60% in Scandinavia
• 30% in Deutschland.

That demonstrates the several advantages that have the wooden houses and counters some prejudices on the wood
Then convinced?