Green buildings are gaining momentum, with wooden homes, straw houses, and super adobe designs becoming increasingly popular. These methods offer sustainable ways to cut heating and cooling costs. A new construction concept is emerging: wooden bricks that build a home much like a Lego set, without needing expert assistance.
Dreaming of an ecological or passive house but unsure which materials to choose or how to start? Brikawood introduces wooden bricks that snap together almost like a game. They require no glue, nails, or screws and come with notable advantages in sound insulation and thermal efficiency compared with other building options.
Evidence from the Ecoinventos portal notes that this brick was created to meet the needs of passive houses, which increasingly demand energy efficient materials to control consumption.
That portal explains a house built with these bricks uses no more than 15 kWh per square meter. The energy savings for air conditioning are a key benefit, with homes adopting this material showing substantially lower consumption than typical buildings built without energy efficiency criteria.
It took a decade of research to bring this brick to market, aiming to replace traditional materials. Brikawood is fully recyclable and a 100 percent natural product. From its first use to the end of its life cycle, the system is designed to be simple: four wooden elements assembled into a brick shape, needing only a single assembly to stay stable. The design promises less effort than conventional methods.
The accompanying video demonstrates how Brikawood-based structures can be built with ease and how the approach supports independent construction by individuals.
Beyond simplification, the bricks boast very high performance in seismic resilience, mechanical strength, acoustics, and thermal regulation.
The original idea was to pursue construction with minimal energy use while guaranteeing insulation and compatibility with all feasible energy sources.
With these assurances, homes built with Brikawood are expanding from Europe to North America, with examples seen from France to Norway and from Canada to the Pacific region.
Reference article: Ecoinventos overview on Brikawood
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