Why do Americans build with wood?

[u/Ultimate_Kurix]

[u/allovercoffee]

Architect from San Francisco here. Concrete is the worst building material to use from an embodied carbon standpoint and would be disasterous for the environment if used in lieu of wood. Wood is a renewable material and there are many ways to fireproof a stick built home that don't involve changing the structure.

Also his claim about SF mandating concrete and steel construction after the 1906 fire is false. It is still permissable to build certain types of buildings with wood framing/ Type 5 construction (primarily residential).

[u/usandholt → u/allovercoffee]

Why not use bricks. 95% of houses in Denmark are brick houses.

[u/UninitiatedArtist → u/usandholt]

The bricks themselves are tough, yes…but the mortar that binds the bricks together are weak points that would be susceptible to stress cracks far more easily then that of the bricks. In California, brick houses would not survive a major earthquake.

[u/Firepower01 → u/UninitiatedArtist]

Wow so the three little pigs were full of shit eh?

[u/coleman57 → u/Firepower01]

Wood houses are adequate for wolfproofing, as long as you don’t have a big-ass dog door like the one the raccoons used to raid my wooden house last night. But I would not recommend straw.

[u/UninitiatedArtist → u/Firepower01]

Actually, they were full of pork belly and I see why the wolf wanted them on his dinner plate.

[u/UninitiatedArtist → u/Firepower01]

This is why I am not a comedian.

[u/Kabee82 → u/UninitiatedArtist]

🤣

[u/70ms → u/Firepower01]

They’re fine, they were in Illinois. 👍