Engineered wood / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...engineered wood products that are far more susceptible to moisture damage than solid lumber. If you were thinking it's ok to build a new home with OSB "because everybody does it", see why we consider that the small extra cost of plywood may be worth it when compared to the disadvantages of OSB here.  So; why do new hou...

...wood framing of a passive solar home with FSC certified wood:   Engineered wood products for framing homes Engineered wood requires more processing than standard wood.  As may be expected, engineered wood is more expensive than the types described above, and has a higher embodied energy given that it undergoes multipl...