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Better Building Practices
Strength is in the System.
Today's value-engineered home features the extensive use of engineered wood products - a resource-efficient, high-performance building system used in floor, wall and roof construction.
Engineered wood— products such as plywood, oriented strand board, glued laminated timber, and wood I-joists—improve upon many of the inherent structural advantages of wood while also providing environmental benefits. They use more of the available resource with very little waste, for example, and compare favorably with non-wood products based on such criteria as embodied energy and emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants during manufacture.
These products, used together in floor, wall and roof systems, provide outstanding structural performance. However, like all building materials, their performance properties can be compromised by the intrusion of moisture.
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• BBH: Walls
• BBH: Roofs
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BBH: Mold and Mildew