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Preproduction of wooden buildings makes them a promising tool for carbon sequestration

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Population growth sharply increases demand for readily available and affordable housing. As people spend a greater proportion of their lives indoors (chances of another pandemic increase with global warming), the energy necessary for construction materials, construction, maintenance, reconstruction, waste management and other services associated with housing becomes responsible for nearly half of the carbon released worldwide. There is a broad consensus that wood constructions could be an environmentally favorable instrument, as wood is the most reliable mechanism for carbon sequestration. Therefore, increasing the efficiency of wood constructions is a highly important matter. On-site and off-site construction was robustly assessed in terms of cost effectiveness. It is firstly demonstrated that off-site preproduction of components results in a range of benefits due to reduced labor (the main factor determining prices and time) and reduced use of materials and services. It is also demonstrated that component preproduction allows reducing the construction costs of wood houses by 6% and construction time by 20%. In other words, off-site preproduction of components for the construction of wood buildings improves their competitiveness and brings them closer to the very few profitable methods of carbon sequestration.

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The article presents a partial research result of projects  KEGA 032TUKE-4/2023, VEGA 1/0379/23 and VEGA 1/0336/22.

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  1. Department of Construction Technology, Economy and Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Košice, 04200, Kosice, Slovakia

    Jozef Švajlenka

  2. Faculty of Technology, Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice, Okružní 517/10, 370 01, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

    Anna Maroušková

  3. Faculty of Economics, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Studentská 13, 370 05, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

    Anna Maroušková

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Švajlenka, J., Maroušková, A. Preproduction of wooden buildings makes them a promising tool for carbon sequestration. Clean Techn Environ Policy 25, 1825–1835 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-023-02471-w

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