To build with wood means to fight against the greenhouse effect.
A ton of wood represents 1.4 tons of CO2 absorbed by the trees. There are the growing young trees that absorb the greatest quantity of carbon dioxide and release the most important quantity of oxygen. Therefore, when mature trees - and not the young ones - are being cut and used to build long lasting constructions, the efficiency of carbon dioxide capture is doubled by the photosynthesis. This is the reason why European states, represented by the domain professionals, signed the Kyoto Protocol and established the objective of augmenting a 25% the volume of the wood mass used in the constructions by the year 2010.
To build with wood means get involved in the forests’ life.
The forest’s vitality, its regenerating capacity is favoured by harvesting timber mass from a selection of mature trees and by the thinning out that relieves the congestion in the necessary space of the most beautiful of the younger trees. This practice lasts from centuries of forests durable management. Either private or public domain, the forests irrevocably require a specific regulation. These specific regulations must reflect the state constant interest in ensuring the future of the forest inheritance.
To build with wood means to use a resource with a fast regeneration capacity.
In spite of popular ideas, the forest gains ground in the present in all Europe. It was the subject of intensive clearing from antiquity: the extension of the grounds for agricultural purposes; the construction of the fleet etc, but starting with the 19th century, at the same time with the agricultural modernization and the apparition of the new energy resources, the pressure on the forests decreased. Thus the European forests regained more than twice of the territory in roughly two centuries and it keeps on growing.
To build with wood means to opt in for the environment quality in all plans.
The first quality (and as well the most notable) of the wood constructions is that it keeps the naturalness and beauty of a savage region or of a rural territory and emphasize the beauty of an urban landscape, conferring to it more warmth and harmony. Wood not only absorbs carbon dioxide but also responds to other exigencies – due to its low thermal inertia it allows a house warming, making important economies of energy. Another advantage - a construction site of wood dry cutting, unlike the concrete which requires water, is a clean and quickly building site. Anywhere and anytime it will be about conserving the beauty of the environment and the natural resources, the use of the wood fully corresponds to the two imperative conditions.