Innovation and development of self-sustained wooden residues blocks "Madeblock" for homes and buildings

Abstract

The south-central region of Chihuahua State has 150 transformation industries of timber forest resources, these industries dedicate to produce different types of timber furniture, which generates a huge amount of organic scraps that are deposited mostly in the intermunicipal landfill that covers 5 municipalities. Within the field research, it was detected that only one of all companies produces 20 tons of scrap per week. Hence, it is considered ground-breaking developing a model to produce sawdust blocks destined to build sustainable houses and buildings. In order to frame this research, it was also analyzed the problem of September 19th, 2017 earthquakes, presented in the following states of the Mexican Republic, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Puebla, Morelos and Mexico City, where 111,668 houses and buildings had a partial damage and 60,302 had a total damage, in other words, there were 171,990 affected houses and buildings. The prototype’s construction was developed by performing destructives and mechanical resistance tests, inside the testing laboratory of a social enterprise, La Cosa in Delicias City, a town of Chihuahua State, which is accredited by the EMA (Entidad Mexicana de Acreditación).