About Wood

The idea that houses made of wood should not be taken seriously as dwellings is a wide-spread, yet totally unfounded prejudice. In actual fact, buildings made of wood can stand for hundreds of years and are every bit as durable as buildings made of brick.

Timber homes do not necessarily have to be built in the alpine style. Rubner Timber Homes can be customised to match any conceivable style, and to fulfil any requirements. They can be designed to blend into any surroundings seamlessly – even in an urban environment.

Wood is one of the best insulators of all natural building materials. In practice this means that a Rubner house can reduce the energy required to heat the home by up to 80%.

Rubner Timber Homes are made exclusively from wood that originates from carefully regulated, sustainable forests. It only takes 28 seconds for the forests in the alpine area alone to grow the amount of wood required to build an average-sized wooden home.

When it comes to short construction periods, wooden buildings are vastly superior to any other construction method. It only takes a few weeks to building a 100m2 house – turnkey. Another advantage: in Rubner, there is a single, highly specialised partner who can be involved in every aspect of the construction project. You won’t have to coordinate a lot of different companies, so you won’t waste precious time.

Structures made of wood possess an optimum balance between the weight of the structure and the statics of the building. Wooden houses are thus much better designed to weather even a very strong earthquake without sustaining permanent damage. For example, in Japan – a country with very high seismic activity – virtually all of the homes are built of wood.

A Rubner Timber Home ends up costing, on average, the same amount as a comparably built brick house – even if the projected costs may initially appear to be higher.
The cost of a Rubner house is guaranteed to remain stable throughout the entire construction period. Costs for a construction project in brick, on the other hand, generally increase during the implementation phase. The shorter construction period of a Rubner house and its markedly lower energy costs quickly add up to significant savings.

Naturally they do. The prejudice that construction in wood is especially susceptible to fire is just that – an unfounded prejudice that has been categorically rebutted by an extensive series of recent tests. The CSI testing centre, which is an independent organisation that follows European guidelines, certified Rubner Haus building materials as having the best static qualities, even in the case of fire.

It has been proven using strictly regulated testing procedures that the wood Rubner uses for building is characterised by stability and excellent resistance to high temperatures. The Residenz and Blockhaus systems have both thoroughly passed internationally standardised fire safety tests.