ECOLOGY
Environmentally friendly home of renewable resources
Wood is a renewable resource and building material that traps carbon dioxide. Save the planet and live in a Honka Fusion™ home and you will trap atmospheric carbon in the walls of your home for centuries.
At the same time, new forests grow to allow your children to breathe cleaner air. Building out of wood is a natural, eco-friendly choice. In the battle against climate change, a massive wooden house wins hands down.
Honka is part of sustainable development
As the world's largest manufacturer of log houses and as the producer of Honka Fusion™ homes, we favor wood from the north above others. Our company roots are deep in the Finnish forests and our long experience guarantees Your family pure, renewable and high quality wood. The raw wood materials that make up Your Honka Fusion™ home come from areas that support sustainable development. We never purchase wood from protected areas. At the moment more wood grows in Finland that it is cut down, so wood is renewable resource of over 100%. If all of the wood that grows over this 100%, were to be used for massive wood houses, we could make 70 000 middle size houses and the forests would not decrease. Our acquisition area and our factories are located in the optimum growth zone of high-quality pine. This reduces the need for transportation and reduces environmental impact.
The ecological Honka Fusion™ home
The environmental friendliness of wood as a construction material is indisputable. The industrial production of massive wood uses only 50% of the energy required to produce concrete and 20% of that required to produce bricks. Wood is cut carefully to ensure efficiency in material use. Any remaining wood pieces or materials (sawdust and small pieces) are utilized for other products, such as pet bedding, packaging materials and birds' nests and to produce energy to power our production facilities.
A natural home with plastic-free walls
Honka Fusion™ homes do not use plastic damp-proof membranes in the walls. Naturally breathable walls allow water vapor to move freely between the wall and the air. In addition to massive wood for the structure, walls and roof, we use wood fiber insulation to enhance the natural qualities of the wood. All structural solutions used in Honka Fusion™ homes are structurally safe. This ensures that Your family has a long-lasting, ecological safe home.
