Wood Frame Construction
Wood Frame Construction is the construction of houses with a wooden frame built in them to support the house. To use this type of building you will need a building permit also to build this type of construction you will need a good amount of wood. This specific type of building has been used and is still being used in some parts of america and some parts of Europe.
Steps for Using Wood frame construction
Advantages and Disadvantages
Advantages-
- Quick erection times
- Reduced site labour
- Reduced time to weather the structure
- Earlier introduction of following trades
- Low embodied energy if constructed in local
- timber
- Recyclable
- Reduced construction waste through
- efficient controlled manufacturing
- Low volume of waste on site requiring
- removal
- Can be built to exceed 60-year design life
- Energy efficient when constructed to current
- standards
- Fast heating due to low thermal mass
- Reduced time on site reduces
- environmental nuisance and disruption to
- local residents
- Engineered product
- Factory controlled quality assurance in
- Fabrication
- Efficient use of material due to controlled
- engineering and fabrication
- Reduced construction time translates into
- reduced risk exposure
Disadvantages
- Traditional procurement process
- Additional design and engineering time
- Modification of general arrangement
- drawings if based on masonry construction
- Lack of experienced builders and erection
- crews
- Lack of experience of following trades
- Transportation and carriage access
- Exposure to weather before enclosed
- Work of following trades
- Deficiency of site quality control
- Combustibility of timber requires vigilant
- quality control to achieve required fire rating
- of separating and compartment walls
- Susceptibility to decay of timber when
- exposed to excessive moisture