Timber frame route to zero carbon housing
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UK Timber Frame Association product story
Edited by the Buildingtalk editorial team
Dec 7, 2006
Timber frame industry in the UK is already developing the technology and building practices that will enable housebuilders to meet new zero carbon homes target.
Commenting on the Chancellor's announcement today regarding zero carbon housing, Bryan Woodley, Chief Executive of the UK Timber Frame Association (UKTFA), said: "All new homes being zero carbon homes within 10 years is an ambitious target, but one that we applaud.
The timber frame industry in the UK is already developing the technology and building practices that will allow housebuilders to meet this target, and we believe that the use of timber frame makes it both commercially and technically feasible.
For example, one of the UKTFA's members, Stewart Milne, will unveil its zero carbon house at BRE's Offsite 07 exhibition next June, and we expect it to provide useful information that will allow such innovative timber frame technology to be adapted to suit volume housebuilding.
In the meantime, the timber frame industry is actively participating with English Partnership's latest phase of its Design for Manufacture competition to provide low and zero carbon developments across the country, as well as similar zero carbon schemes in the Thames Gateway area and elsewhere".
Timber frame construction is recognised around the world as one of the most environmentally sound, mainstream methods to build new homes that are also adaptable, durable and safe:.
- Wood is effectively a carbon-neutral material (even allowing for transport).
- Timber frame has the lowest CO2 cost of any commercially available building material.
- For every cubic metre of wood used instead of other building materials, 0.8 tonne of CO2 is saved from the atmosphere.
- A typical 100 square metre two-storey detached timber frame home contains 5-6 cubic metres more wood than the equivalent masonry house.
- Consequently, every timber frame home that is built saves about 4 tonnes of CO2 (about the amount produced by driving 14,000 miles).
- In addition to these CO2 savings, the operational cost of a house can be reduced by several hundred pounds due to its thermal efficiency.
- If all UK houses built since 1945 had been timber frame, then over 300 million tonnes of CO2 would have been saved.
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