First wooden houses have been built first in The Bronze Age (1100-750 B.C.). Since then this way of building houses have spread all over the world. The largest number of the wooden houses can be found in North America, Scandinavia and Europe.
Lately, there is a trend of an increased interest for wooden houses. Today, there are modern tools and machines for wood processing and modern materials in the combination with wood give full effect in terms of pleasant atmosphere, healthy environment and aesthetic quality of objects.
In Russia, even today, there are still a couple of wooden churches that were built in 16th century.
Wood is a 6 times better isolator than brick and 15 times better that cement (concrete).
A wood with thickness of 10 cm has the heat isolation of a brick with thickness of 30 cm. This is why inhabitants of wooden houses who live in a significantly colder climate conditions spend two times less energy on heating.
The most recent researches show that wooden constructions do not stop the transmission of the Earth’s magnetic substances that are very important for human health. Also, wood is not emitting any radiation, harmful gasses, allergic dust or static electricity.
Some countries, especially Japan, show an increased interest in wooden houses due to the very frequent earthquakes.
Wood always contains a certain amount of moisture within itself so it is much less flammable than other dry materials. Wood has a low density, that is, weight, so it is a lot easier for transport than concrete or brick.
In the case of fire, wood transmits the heat of the fire 10 times weaker than concrete and even 250 times weaker than steel so it is allowed to the fireman to stay longer inside a wooden house as opposed to a brick houses.
