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Sustainable Construction—Technological Aspects of Ecological Wooden Buildings

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  • Anna Stepien

    (Civil Engineering and Architecture Department, Kielce University of Technology, Al. 1000-lecia PP7, 25-314 Kielce, Poland)

  • Jerzy Zbigniew Piotrowski

    (Faculty of Environmental, Geomatic and Energy Engineering, Kielce University of Technology, Al. 1000-lecia PP7, 25-314 Kielce, Poland)

  • Sławomir Munik

    (DomyExpert, Kościuszki 109, 26-680 Wierzbica, Poland)

  • Magdalena Balonis

    (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), 410 Westwood Plaza, 2121K Engineering V, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA)

  • Milena Kwiatkowska

    (Civil Engineering and Architecture Department, Kielce University of Technology, Al. 1000-lecia PP7, 25-314 Kielce, Poland)

  • Maria Krechowicz

    (Faculty of Management and Computer Modelling, Kielce University of Technology, Al. 1000-lecia PP7, 25-314 Kielce, Poland)

Abstract

Wooden construction constitutes a specific branch of the building industry that focuses on high-quality materials, a developed sense of aesthetics connected with comfort and functionality, and concern for ecology and durability. This type of construction has a positive effect on human quality of life. This article focuses on modular frame construction and technological aspects of wooden houses built according to Canadian or Scandinavian technologies. Taking weather conditions of Scandinavian countries into consideration, timber is a popular building material, which, when preserving certain parameters such as density of rings, may provide durability of a modular wooden building even up to 200–300 years. This article is a review and presents the possibility of producing frame buildings in Europe (Poland) in accordance with the applicable standards, including a heat transfer coefficient U = 2 [W/(m²·K]. In Poland, wooden frame buildings can be traced back to the 14th century. Wooden frame buildings and modular wooden frame buildings were produced even earlier in Norway. Wooden construction continued in the mid-1800s in various forms (with wooden filling and/or panels). In the mid-1900s (1941), certain dimensioning became regulated by law, which then applied to different types of insulation fillings. Prefabricated modular wood frame houses were common in the 1960s.

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  • Anna Stepien & Jerzy Zbigniew Piotrowski & Sławomir Munik & Magdalena Balonis & Milena Kwiatkowska & Maria Krechowicz, 2022. "Sustainable Construction—Technological Aspects of Ecological Wooden Buildings," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(23), pages 1-24, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:15:y:2022:i:23:p:8823-:d:981288
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