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Text 4. ABOUT WOODEN HOUSES

 

1. Why has wood become an appealing buildin materal?

Wood is one of the most endurable building materials, which can be seen from a number of Scandinavian wooden houses that are over 600 years old. In modern times, a pervasive trend is ecological efficiency, the tendency to turn to nature and healthy living in all aspects. This is why the wood, due to its ecological, biological and economic advantages, has again become an appealing material for the construction of houses and other wooden buildings.

2. Due to what are wooden houses included into the low-energy category?

Technological evolution and the modern design of wooden houses led to combining tradition and technology to produce safe, environmentally friendly and sound wooden houses suitable to man. Modern technology provided greater durability and stability of wood, while the typical shortcomings of traditional wood constructions have been eliminated by advanced design methods. Wooden houses offer ideal harmony with nature, simultaneously providing excellent thermal and sound insulation and humidity regulation. Due to such insulation, wooden houses fall in the category of low-energy houses that retain heat in winter while being pleasantly cool during summer.

3. Where does wood acacumulate energy from?

Research has shown that the fire risk is considerably lower with log houses than with typical constructions. Wooden houses also exhibit more seismic endurance as they are less affected by earth tremors than typical constructions. The construction of a wooden house in itself is an entirely dry method of building, which, in addition to faster building, enables you to move into a healthy and pleasant space immediately after the completion of the works.

The wood as biomass represents the sun energy accumulation along with the carbon from air and minerals from the ground, in the growth process of the trees (photosynthesis) and then the transformation in tissues that within a year form a growth ring (yearly ring).

The accumulation of the yearly rings during the years forms the wood itself that represents another form of energy, a living resource, regenerable, with many uses.

As an energy resource and raw material, the wood has to be rationally exploited and rationally used.

4. What does rational use of wood imply?

Rational exploitation means capitalisation of the wood that reached the age of exploitation, but with a continue assurance of a new forest, by sylvic treatments and afforestation projects. Rational usemeans wood processing on a high level, using it in constructions in many varied and useful ways, using modern technologies.

In constructions field the wood is a raw material used for thousands of years, but nowadays when the planet’s resources diminishes, the wood has to be appreciated and used with skills and respect.

5. In what is our responsibility concerning nature?

Appreciating the wood we are appreciating the environment and ourselves. Following that idea, we are to do our work as wood houses constructors with skills, responsibility and professionalism, wishing to bring into your homes the sunlight improved by the wood’s warmth and beauty.

Our common duty is to understand that we have to live in balance with the nature and not to dominate it, in order to pass to our children the joy of breathing a pure air on a clean planet.

Read text 5. Wood Frame Construction

a) Read the text without a dictionary. Guess the meaning of the unknown words that you may come across.

 




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Vocabulary and Grammar Consolidation Exercises | DISADVANTAGES OF CEMENT | Text 3. CEMENT | Text 4. EARLY CONCRETE | Vocabulary to memorise | Pre-Reading exercises | Text 1. WOOD | Text-based exercises | Text 2. ENGINEERED WOOD | Additional Vocabulary |


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