Timber Frame has been a feature of home building and construction since the earliest recorded times. Today timber frame construction in Ireland is one of the fastest and most economical ways of ...

An architectural technologist from Aberdeen has trialled different insulation methods for his low carbon home Ian MacDonald is trialling different insulation types on a 300m² timber frame home which ...

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Many of the advantages of wood, including load-bearing capacity, availability of raw materials, climate neutrality and building physics coincide with those of mineral wool, i.e. glass wool and rock ...

The Irish Timber Frame Manufacturer’s Association nicely round it up — in timber frame “the inner load bearing/support wall is replaced by an engineered rigid timber frame structure”. This is not ...

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Foto: FMI Fachverband Mineralwolleindustrie e.V. Many of the advantages of wood, including load-bearing capacity, availability of raw materials, climate neutrality and building physics coincide with ...