Production process
Timber framing technology
How to construct in a fast and modern way?
The answer is simple: in the timber framing technology on modern computer controlled machines, in a production house, from which ready panels or modules come out onto the construction site.
Modules are panels assembled and “turnkey” finished in the factory of houses, equipped in lighting, bathroom and kitchen furniture, including sanitary fixtures. Modules can be up to 14 m long and up to 4.2 m wide. The module then, can be a small flat itself. For bigger ones, 1.5 or 2 modules are needed to be coupled. Due to oversize dimensions, the transport of modules and their setting is performed at night. Using a crane, the modules are set one on the other like Lego bricks, making up a detached house within few hours, and a block with several flats within 4-5 nights.
Panels are ready-made precast walls, floors and roofs, with a set joinery, piping for installations, ready-made elevation and inner walls prepared to be painted or wallpapered. Assembling of a detached house takes 2-3 days, while finishing “turnkey” works approx. 8-10 weeks.
As far as the panel technology is very quick, the module technology is as quick as a flash. Modular construction in Poland is still something new, and UNIHOUSE is the pioneer in this latest technology.
Timber framing technology, very popular in Scandinavia, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, also called a Scandinavian or German technology (different from less industrial Canadian technology)
Application (modular construction)
- hotels and motels
- student houses, kindergartens, creches
- multi-family buildings up to 6 storeys
- medical facilities
- nursing homes
- detached house estates
- all season recreation villages
- commercial pavilions
- office buildings
- changing rooms for ‘orlik’ sport facilities
- sport villages
Essence of the technology
Load carrying structure is a timber frame, filled with mineral wool, and finished from the inside with plaster-cardboard panel, either painted or wallpapered (wall tiles in bathroom), while facing the elevation, the framing is additionally insulated and coated with mineral plaster, cladding or clinker brick.