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With wood construction, the forestry industry proposes to reduce the housing deficit

With wood construction, the forestry industry proposes to reduce the housing deficit

The Forest industry aspires to reach 2030 with a production capacity of 30,000 homes with wood per yearrepresenting approximately the 25% of the total realization of family homes per yearand with the appropriate technology to already have by then “between 5 and 10 buildings in height” in line with international standards.

“The contribution that construction with wood can provide is important, with innovative methods and lower-cost industrialized solutions,” said the Industrial Forestry Competitiveness Tablewhich in turn highlighted that “it is more efficient in the energy consumption and replace non-renewable products (cement, iron, aluminum) and with a high level of emission of greenhouse gases making it a preferable option in sustainable construction and as a tool climate change mitigation“.

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Companies and professionals in the sector presented in 2020 the “Forestry and Industrial Forestry Strategic Plan Argentina 2030”in which they reflected both the sectoral situation, the resources and regulations necessary to promote its development and the objectives to be achieved within seven yearsin a context marked both by the housing deficit as for the need to reduce the emission of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) in the fight against climate change and the energy saving.

The work consists of 178 pages and the chapter referring to construction was carried out by a team coordinated by the forestry engineer Helga Vogelteacher of the Faculty of Forest Sciences of the National University of Misiones (UNaM) and the financing of the General Directorate of Sectoral and Special Programs and Projects (Diprose).

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With a housing deficit estimated at around two million homes to be built, in addition to the existing ones with qualitative deficiencies, the investigation concluded that “the amount built annually corresponds to the annual increase in demand for new homesbut does not decrease the historical deficit“and in this framework the construction with wood could represent a complementary contribution to traditional wet construction.

In it Strategic plan It was noted that the companies dedicated to industrial forestry (mostly SMEs) “use various construction systems”, with the drawback that “many of them do not conform to the regulations in force at the national level since 2016 for structural wood”, one of the aspects that began to be analyzed in the technical panel recently convened by the National Directorate of Industrial Forestry Development.

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Once the certification standards and with the corresponding financing, the production capacity of the sector could be doubled, taking into account that some 3,000 wooden houses per year and the goal is to reach the 30,000 in 2030.

It is estimated that for an average 60m2 house, 12 m3 of wood is used, of which one 46% is structural wood, 47% coatings and 7% multi-laminate boards phenolics or OSB (Oriented Strand Board).

“An annual production of 10,000 homes with an average of 60 m2 will consume about 120,000 m3 of wood with different degrees of industrialization”, it was specified in the Strategic plan. But international experience made it clear that technological advances are available for the construction of tall buildingswith construction systems such as CLT (Counterlaminated wood or Cross Laminated Timber) or the MLE (Glued Laminated Wood or Glulam, Glued Laminated Timber).

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Among the main goals, it is pointed out that in 2030 construction with wood represents “25% of the total construction of family homes” and that by then “they will have been built between 5 and 10 tall buildings“.

For that year, it is expected to have an installed capacity to “produce at least 30,000 family homes per year”, in addition to “quality institutional building solutions”such as schools and public offices, as well as to “give fast and quality solutions for the improvement of housing conditions in homes and buildings”, and “construct tall buildings with international standards”.

All of that will represent the creation of “at least 12,000 direct jobs“, stood out in the Strategic plan.

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“To reach a productive capacity of 30,000 houses built with wood, or the equivalent of 2,000,000 m2, direct investments in equivalent technologies to those made of around US$100 million”, it was indicated.

Source: Ambito

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