Why Are Australian Houses Built with Wood

BEng The Brazilian Engineer in Australia

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Curious to know why we build houses with timber/wood?
Have you ever wondered why countries like Brazil have not adopted this lightweight framing system and still build residences with reinforced concrete and masonry?
In this video we dive deep into this discussion.
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Комментарии : 35

@wild_away Год назад

Great insight mate👍

@darrenmolloy9147 Год назад

Another fantastic video great work mate

@bengthebrazilianengineerinAus Год назад

Thank you very much Darren :) Appreciate the support

@theworldisa 10 месяцев назад

Great video! Very educational

@bengthebrazilianengineerinAus 10 месяцев назад

Thanks :)

@alexisidro Год назад

This was a great video, man!

@bengthebrazilianengineerinAus Год назад

Thanks Alex. :)

@gregw988 3 месяца назад

Meanwhile in Perth, Western Australia, anything built in timber is regarded very second rate. The dominate style is brick, with double brick on the outside walls, timber only for roof framing and decoration.

@bengthebrazilianengineerinAus 3 месяца назад

Good point Greg. Do you think they will eventually transition to light weight framing?

@gregw988 3 месяца назад

@@bengthebrazilianengineerinAus I'm not in the trade, but can see a transition would help reduce building/housing costs with a move away from such a high energy (brick production) and labour (brick laying) costs. I see more second levels being a frame on top of a brick ground level. Though I imagine human psychology would then place even more value/prestige on brick due to the extra cost 😉

@hizamshahrusmi Год назад

It’s the same in 🇲🇾 where houses are built using RC & masonry, and I always have that kind of question why here we are using timber instead 😅I got it now. Thanks mate 👏🏻

@bengthebrazilianengineerinAus Год назад

Glad it was helpful. Thanks for watching :)

@joaoflaavio Год назад

Muito bacana esses vídeos de curiosidades!

@bengthebrazilianengineerinAus Год назад

valeu meu brother

@clementmunezero9285 Год назад

Hello Mr Gabriel nice Explanation. We still wait the second part of the Portal Frame Shed verication video. Thank You😀

@bengthebrazilianengineerinAus Год назад

haha Hi Clement. Thanks for watching. I need to have some spare time to do those tutorials videos as they take too long.

@edmarferreirajunior724 7 месяцев назад

I noticed that Queensland has a climate similar to much of Brazil, that is, very hot and very humid. One question I would like to clarify is whether these lightweight walls work well without air conditioning. Where I live in Brazil, I visited some buildings built with light steel frames and observed great thermal discomfort in the late afternoon, even with walls insulated with mineral wool. Unlike the brick walls with high thermal mass that we are already used to in Brazil, light and insulated walls have no thermal delay, that is, little heat passes through, but it passes through quickly. Good luck to you in Australia. A hug from BH!

@Bobtubeau 7 месяцев назад

Yes, the style of home he showed (Queenslander) has been around for 150+ years or so. It's built on stilts so avoid floors and provides ventilation. The focus is not insulation, it's ventilation. Honestly, new houses (not queenslanders) are built with wooden frames, insulation, construction wrap, and brickwork/brick veneer, so if you looked at them you'd not even know it was a framed (steel or wood) house - plus air conditioning etc.

@edmarferreirajunior724 7 месяцев назад

@@Bobtubeau , Thank you for kindly clarifying. Queenslander houses are similar to the old houses in the Amazon region, called stilt houses (palafitas, in portuguese) built high off the ground to keep water, alligators and anacondas away and with openings at the top of the roof for ventilation. Ventilation and shade are the keys to thermal comfort in the tropics. Greetings from Brazil!

@edmarferreirajunior724 7 месяцев назад

There are other points in this regard. In Brazil, we inherited the construction tradition of the Portuguese, who mostly build with ceramic brick masonry. In Europe, contrary to what many people think in Brazil, timber construction is not well regarded, except in Finland, Norway and Sweden. In Brazil, we still have a problem with the building performance standard (NBR 15.575) which requires a minimum thermal capacity of 130 Kjoules for walls in 7 of the 8 climate zones, and light timber walls have a thermal capacity of a maximum of 35 Kjoules. Strictly speaking, only in zone 8 (Rio de Janeiro, coastal region from the southeast to the north and the Amazon region) is it permitted to build light timber walls. Thanks for sharing!

@bengthebrazilianengineerinAus 7 месяцев назад

great insights. Thanks :)

@Andrepaulistano_ 3 месяца назад

We must also point that here in Brazil construction industry excelled in the use of reinforced concrete to a point that building some odd forms by using this method became some sort of child play, as can be proven by the works of Oscar Niemeyer. Artacho Jurado and other great names of our architectural scene that pushed the envelope further in a time when this kind of construction was starting at a world level. Suddenly we had lots of workforce that managed to build on a modern way to a point that even simple houses are built that way (see how fast the structural brick residences disappeared from our landscape after the advent of reinforced concrete at a broad level specially after the 1960s). Other thing that we must point is that for a poor Brazilian, the house is his/her main patrimony, meaning that he/she wants to build something meant to last not for a century like a wood/timber house, but for centuries and being something that can be inherited by descendants as some sort of scape from poorness. This reminds a bit the Euro mentality and how many old buildings made of brick, stone or even concrete (remember Rome) standed the test of time and are standing still even today there.

@rasalih9200 10 месяцев назад

I remember when one company has hired me for the position of Quantity surveyor and the company is ITW Illinois Tool Works , they have office here in phillippines the projects is in australia which is timber now i know why australia is more on timber houses. But i don't choice that company because they are others company i choice my position is structural engineer.

@arnoldbr8418 Месяц назад

Do they use gum wood in framing too?

@chrisk7118 Год назад

Same situation in Philippines as Brazil. Timber stocks used up and prominent use of concrete hollow blocks / besser blocks, which look extremely ugly architecturally and went out of favour in Australia in the 70’s.