How does wooden structure help you save money?

  Considering renovating a homestead, adding a house, or building a new house? Don't rush to make a decision, you may soon be discouraged by the continuously soaring prices of building materials.

  In recent years, the prices of building materials such as cement, sand and gravel, steel bars, and concrete have been continuously rising, which has a certain impact on real estate development and construction projects. Everyone is considering how to reduce costs without delaying the construction period and quality, but few people have found that wooden structures can also be applied to real estate, public buildings, and private courtyards, and the construction is more efficient, safe, and cost-effective. Even during the usage phase, a win-win effect of comfortable living environment and cost savings can be easily achieved!

1、 Low resource consumption during the production process.

  Buildings are major energy consumers: resource consumption accounts for 40% of the world's total, energy consumption accounts for 25% to 40%, greenhouse gas emissions account for 30% to 40%, and solid waste accounts for 30% to 40%.

  Compared to other building materials, wood has the characteristics of low energy consumption and low carbon emissions. The energy consumed in the process from logs to boards mostly comes from by-products of the wood's own production process, and the consumption is relatively small.

  The resource consumption for producing one cubic meter of wood is much lower than that of steel and cement, and the waste material cut from wood can also be fully utilized as fuel for the factory.

2、 Wooden structures have a relatively light weight, which can save on foundation and basement costs.

  Researchers have studied a proposed 6-story office building and found that the advantage of lightweight wooden structures has a certain impact on the cost of its foundation and basement. Compared with reinforced concrete structures, the cost savings for foundations and basements are 1.2487 million yuan, approximately 16%; Compared with steel structures, the cost savings for foundations and basements are 1.1446 million yuan, approximately 15%.

3、 The wooden structure is highly prefabricated, with fast construction speed and short construction period.

  Modern wooden structures are produced in factories and constructed through assembly. A large number of wooden components can be prefabricated in factories and assembled on site. The construction period is only about half of that of general concrete structures, thus saving a lot of labor costs.

  Taking the 10 square meter bread house of Xiaoyu Wooden House as an example, due to the standardized production of all structural components and connectors, it only needs to be transported to the site as a whole and directly landed for occupancy. If the road traffic on site remains unchanged, installation can also be carried out on site. Two people can complete one building per day.

4、 Wooden components can be directly exposed indoors, saving decoration costs.

  Traditional houses are only unfinished when completed. For exposed wooden components, they are already decoration and do not require additional interior decoration. According to industry calculations, interior decoration often accounts for about 30% of real estate development costs.

5、 Building durability can reduce maintenance costs.

  There is a misconception in our country that wooden buildings have poor durability. In fact, wood is a stable, long-lasting, and durable material. Especially compared with traditional wooden structure buildings, modern wooden structure buildings have a more comprehensive consideration of building durability in the design process.

  The Yingxian Wooden Pagoda in China, with a height of 67.31 meters, has been certified by Guinness World Records as the tallest wooden pagoda in the world. The Yingxian Wooden Pagoda does not have a single nail on its entire body, relying only on mortise and tenon joints for support. After thousands of years, it has suffered too many natural disasters and wars, and still stands tall.

6、 Wooden components can be recycled and reused.

  Wooden components can be recycled and reused in other buildings after the end of their entire life cycle, which can become a part of the hidden benefits of recycling and reduce the impact of construction waste landfill on the environment.

  Even abandoned wood that can no longer be constructed can still be used as raw materials for the wood industry after treatment. They can also be used as bioenergy and have a calorific value similar to ordinary coal. During the combustion process, almost no sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxides are emitted, and the almost completely burned ash becomes fertilizer in agricultural production. It can be said that the whole body is a treasure.

  It seems that wooden structures are saving costs throughout their entire lifecycle, no wonder they have become the "new favorite" of more and more architects. Whether it is small-scale residential units, tourism supporting single building forms, multi story or high-rise buildings, or unique public buildings, there is no shortage of wooden structures in cultural and tourism project planning, existing building renovation, beautiful rural construction and other projects.

  We believe that modern wooden construction will continue to break through floor height, scene breadth, and technological difficulties in the future, and go further and further on the path of green and sustainable buildings, making future buildings full of infinite possibilities.