Stommaterial för villor - trä eller betong?

Sammanfattning: We have the tradition in Sweden to build villas and houses with a wooden framework. It has become natural for us because we have so much forest in our country. Building with wood has advantages, it is easy to process, but also disadvantages, as it is sensitive to moisture. Finland has long made use of the thermal blocks to build villas. It is a type of bricks that are a bit like a sandwich element, with a core of EPS and concrete on both sides of the core material. The concrete is hollow, so that after the walls has been bricked up you pour concrete into the hollow bricks. The issue of this report is to find out if concrete can be an alternative to wood as framework material in villas. To make the comparison, we have used us a reference house. We have a wall with a wooden framework with the same U-value as the thermal blocks to get a fair energy comparison. One of the advantages of the thermal blocks is its relatively high heat storage capacity. The heat storage capacity makes the indoor temperature more even and you do not have to have as much effect on the heating system. You can also bring down the energy consumption because the concrete stores the free heat in the form of solar radiation, personal heat and heat from machines, which are then released when the room temperature is lower than the wall temperature. Another advantage is that the building becomes almost free of thermal bridges when building with thermal blocks. The only cold bridges you get are the ones around windows and doors. The wall of thermal blocks has a higher sounds reduction index and a higher fire class than the wall with a wooden framework. Material costs for the heating blocks are almost twice as high as for a wall with a wooden framework with the same U-value. It is a disadvantage for the thermal blocks. By contrast, heating blocks, doesn’t take as long to build, which on our reference building reduces construction time by about 60 hours. The energy to save thanks to the heat storage and the virtual absence of thermal bridges is approximately 1700kWh a year. There is not much energy, so it takes a long time to earn the extra amount it costs to build with the thermal blocks compared with wooden framework. The motive to build with the thermal blocks is instead the high level of comfort you get. You get fewer hours with the upper and lower temperatures in the building and less disturbed by traffic noise and other noise from outside thanks to the higher sound reduction index.