Massive wood material for sustainable building design: the Massiv–Holz–Mauer wall system

Santi, Silvia; Pierobon, Francesca; Corradini, Giulia; Cavalli, Raffaele; Zanetti, Michela

doi:10.1007/s10086-016-1570-7

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“…From an ecological point of view, usage of wooden structures has been found to contribute to improved energy efficiency both in component manufacturing and on-site construction especially when building very high-rise buildings (Van de Kuilen et al 2011). Similarly, MSWB improves energy efficiency also at the usage of the phase of buildings abreast with carbon storage properties (Espinoza et al 2016, Santi et al 2016. However, the life-cycle impact of MSWB is largely dependent on building solutions, which either support or hinder construction and demolition waste management, for example (Dahlbo et al 2015).…”

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Consumers’ perceptions on the properties of wood affecting their willingness to live in and prejudices against houses made of timber

Lähtinen

Harju

Toppinen³

2019

Wood Material Science & Engineering

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Multi-storey wood building (MSWB) provides options to enhance sustainable development. Despite this, no comprehension exists on how consumer perceptions differ regarding (1) willingness to live in modern houses made of timber or (2) prejudices against living in houses made of wood, although they play important role in marked demand of MSWB. In this research, views of consumers on the benefits of wood from technological, ecological, social and economic perspectives are being studied. The material of the study is based on data gathered in June-July 2018 by a postal survey sent for 1000 people living in Finland with a response rate of 25.6%. According to the factor analysis results, there are two main consumer categories based on their perceptions on sustainability benefits of wood, i.e. the ones favouring ecological and physiotechnological benefits of wood and the ones favouring aesthetic and well-being benefits of wood. Additionally, according to binary regression analysis results, they differ from each other in their willingness to live in wooden houses and in their prejudices against the appropriateness of wood as a structural material. The results emphasize the need for deepening the understanding of the sustainability issues affecting the acceptability of wood among different types of consumers.

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Consumers’ perceptions on the properties of wood affecting their willingness to live in and prejudices against houses made of timber

Lähtinen

Harju

Toppinen³

2019

Wood Material Science & Engineering

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“…• Very low in production energy compared to other building materials such as concrete, steel, and aluminum (Santi et al, 2016).…”

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Visual stress grading of fibre-managed plantation Eucalypt timber for structural building applications

Kotlarewski

Lee

Jiao

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Construction and Building Materials

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The aim of this study was to examine the impacts of visual characteristics, strength-reducing features (SRFs), and basic density on the mechanical properties of fibre-managed plantation Eucalypt timber to create effective structural grade groups. It is the intension that the results found in this study can lead to the development of a visual stress grading method for fibre-managed plantation timber in the future and influence the development of new applications for the resource in structural elements for the built environment. The plantation specie investigated in this study was Eucalyptus Nitens-390 sawn timber boards. The most important visual characteristics and SRFs likely to influence the mechanical properties of the boards were visually identified and measured before the boards were divided into designated groups for sampling. The impacts of the visual characteristics, SRFs, and basic density of the boards within each group on modulus of elasticity (MOE) and modulus of rupture (MOR) were determined using four-point bending test. The statistical analyses suggest three structural grade groups can categorise the resource. Strong correlations were found between MOE, MOR, and basic density with the visual characteristics and SRFs of the boards in the three grade groups.

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“…Further consensus with these authors can be observed when deciding that the walls of the building construction systems have a significant impact on the overall environmental and economic footprint of the building in terms of the materials used. Santi et al [72] also studied the environmental effects of the production of the wooden construction system and the traditional masonry construction system. These authors have arrived at similar findings to us, from which it follows that the constructional system is considerably more beneficial than the traditional construction system in terms of the evaluated parameters.…”

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Houses Based on Wood as an Ecological and Sustainable Housing Alternative—Case Study

Švajlenka

Kozlovská

2018

Sustainability

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Sustainability of cities is currently a much-debated topic. The trend in Central Europe we witness nowadays is that people are going back from the impersonal and restrictive conditions of tower blocks to the more natural and relaxed conditions of family houses. New approaches to urbanization in the context of the sustainability of cities can be characterized by their use of innovative technologies and energetically efficient and ecologically acceptable construction materials. Companies have substantially responded to this trend, meeting the demand by offering a wide range of solutions. Alongside the traditional and long-established construction materials (brick, concrete), including wood, companies are introducing modern, innovative, and viable construction alternatives. Modern methods of construction (MMC), to which modern houses based on wood belong, promote the idea and application of environmentally and energetically efficient constructions. Just as the construction process itself significantly contributes to the depletion of natural resources, the production of construction materials contributes to significant environmental pollution and greenhouse emissions (particularly CO 2 ). Sustainability assessments of construction projects increasingly involve the use of methodologies which assess sustainability criteria throughout a product's Life-cycle. For our analysis of suburban housing clusters designed to serve as family houses, we chose an actual family house construction completed using a modern construction system based on wood. For the sake of comparing the modern construction method, we created an alternative model of a construction based on a traditional masonry construction system. The main objective of this contribution is to analyze selected variants of constructions in terms of environmental and economic sustainability characteristics, as part of a broader assessment of permanent sustainability, by applying the life-cycle assessment (LCA) and life-cycle cost (LCC) methodologies within specified assessment boundaries. A partial objective of this contribution is to point towards the ways of applying the LCA and LCC assessment methodologies, such as in the decision-making processes involved in alternative investment strategies for the construction of urban clusters in the context of sustainability.

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Massive wood material for sustainable building design: the Massiv–Holz–Mauer wall system

Cited by 34 publications

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Consumers’ perceptions on the properties of wood affecting their willingness to live in and prejudices against houses made of timber

Consumers’ perceptions on the properties of wood affecting their willingness to live in and prejudices against houses made of timber

Visual stress grading of fibre-managed plantation Eucalypt timber for structural building applications

Houses Based on Wood as an Ecological and Sustainable Housing Alternative—Case Study

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