SML sistem: New ways of timber construction

Abstract

Recently, technique and technology have made an effort to come back to attach importance to the timber construction as a primary structural material. The easy way to be assembled and the goodness of its mechanical properties have helped to increase the development and also the design of the most fashionable architecture. However, the lack of knowledge about it, either because of the little initiative of the universities or the lack of interest of students and professionals, have made a difficult way to be used by the architects at their projects. Nowadays there are many reasons to use it. We want to show how the use of the wood is changing the construction design through a project that our university (CEU-Cardenal Herrera) is developing with the support of several construction companies which are testing different applications of the wood in prefab housing in order to show its advantages and disadvantages.