Brickwork

After the excitement of last week, construction is progressing slowly but surely.

While the wooden walls, the floors and the roof are prefabricated in the Renken shop, the workers came to build-up the "center block" of masonry.

On this view, the block is mounted up to the first floor and the floor slab was poured.

We distinguish the plates of rigid insulation (polyurethane) placed between the block and the container.

The second floor should be finished by next week end.

We are now able to clearly visualize the volumes of the rooms inside the house !

This block, we remind you, will host the bathrooms and the technical rooms.

It will also play the role of thermal storage, along with the foundation slab, to smooth out temperature variations inside the house.

Indeed, wooden structure buildings, despite the many benefits of wood, usually lack of thermal inertia.

We try to compensate this lack of inertia by including these heavy masses, able to store heat (or freshness in summer!).