Features of Expertise in Wooden Housing Construction

Abstract

Wooden house construction is widely used in individual housing construction. The most popular wooden houses are in the United States, Canada, Scandinavian countries, and Northern Europe. Wooden architecture resumes in Russia after a century and a half of oblivion. But during the long break, skills, experience, and skills of building wooden structures were lost, and qualified specialists were not trained in this production. The lack of qualified specialists’ leads to the fact that serious violations often occur during the construction process, which make buildings unusable or require significant investment to eliminate them. In General, this creates a negative image of wooden housing construction as high-quality and durable. The article deals with typical errors in the construction of foundations for wooden buildings, the junction of the log with the Foundation, which directly affects the durability and quality of the structure as a whole. Typical violations and errors that occur when selecting raw materials, manufacturing wall materials in the form of rounded and hewn logs, glued beams, log construction technology, installation of window and door openings are considered separately. This information is of interest to builders and experts in the field of wooden housing construction, developers and owners of wooden residential buildings.