The budgetary effort is intended to encourage works in this type of material, which reduces costs and time.
He Ministry of Housing and Territorial Planning (MVOT), announced this Thursday, April 13, at the Technological Laboratory of Uruguay (LATU) that will allocate some 150 million pesos (more than 3.8 million dollars) to the budget of Mevir to encourage the construction of wooden houses, a material that reduces costs and construction times.
Within the framework of the presentation of “The Wood Roadmap” of the MVOT, Mevir presented the advances that it has been developing in terms of technology in wood construction of its housing complexes.
The head of the MVOT, Irene Moreirasaid that he hopes that, at the end of this administration, “10% of the construction of Mevir houses is made of wood“. He also pointed out that there are currently three open international calls of this type, one for dispersed homes of Mevir in Tranqueras (Rivera), another of high-rise buildings in Peachand a polyclinic in Montevideo.
The government and Mevir emphasize that wooden constructions are sustainable
The minister explained that wood “is an environmentally friendly material”, and highlighted it as an important material for the implementation of non-traditional construction systems, since it allows to reduce up to 50% the time of the worksand 43% the costs of the same.
The president of Mevir, John Paul Delgado, commented that wood construction is a technology that is based on the environment and sustainability. In turn, he added that the agency is working on plans of this type in the departments of Artigas and Rivera, and plans to do so in Chuy (rock), Flowers (maldonado) and San Gregorio del Polanco (tacuarembó).
The environment minister, Robert Bouvierexpressed that this model is relevant from the environmental point of view, since “it is in line with our national policy”, which is to “use renewable elements with sustainable consistency is what we aim for”.
Source: Ambito
