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Radiation Safety

12/29/2017

Extremely high growth rates in mobile communications have led to several hundred million mobile phone owners throughout Europe since the 1990s. The impact of this "flood on the sky" on human health is still a hot topic.

Damping values of different building materials in comparison.

Scientists from neutral research institutes have found that there are no longer any effects of low-frequency pulsed high-frequency signals on biological processes and on the nervous system in their studies.

As part of an investigation of the Thoma Research Center in Goldegg more than 100 different building materials and their combinations were tested at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich for their attenuation for technically generated, high-frequency waves. During the measurement it was examined how much of the emitted power penetrates the test specimen.

The result provided the best values for thick wooden walls!

Contrary to all expectations, the building material wood - tested in the form of non-glued, fully solid Thoma Holz100 walls - shields considerably better than, for example, brick variants or lightweight construction systems.

Here are the damping values of a 17.6 cm thick Thoma Holz100 wall:
At 900 MHz (D-Net), only 25% penetrate through the wooden wall
At 1800 MHz (E-net), 10% penetrate through the wooden wall
At 4 GHz, only 1% penetrate through the wooden wall
Starting at 6.5 GHz, less than 1 per thousand already penetrate through the wooden wall

(According to measurements of the University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich, Department of Electrical Engineering, Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39, 85577 Neubiberg, Germany)

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Waste-Free Life Cycle of Holz100 Buildings

12/15/2017

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Building with the forest:
Everything remains valuable

In the production of Holz100 homes, everything remains valuable. This concept of waste-free recycling economy provides us with a sustainable, growing forest. Holz100 opens up new dimensions of sustainable construction with the first true circulation concept in the construction industry.

Since 1990, Thoma has been developing building materials that not only have a positive impact on the health of the residents, but also on the environment. The Thoma company relies on natural wood.

Holz100 is an award-winning solid wood building system and was the first building material in the world to be awarded the gold "Cradle to Cradle" certificate. It consists of nothing but untreated wood that has been harvested to the proper lunar phase and is completely free of toxic additives such as glue, chemicals, or wood preservatives.

Wood treated with glue or wood preservatives is not only harmful to the health of the residents of the house due to its outgassing, it must also be disposed of as hazardous waste in case of demolition. However, this is not so for Holz100 homes. It is completely natural and can be reused after generations of use both thermally and materially.

To recycle a Holz100 house you only have to dissolve the mechanical connections that hold the house together. With the raw materials released, a new house can be built.

Holz100 homes are prefabricated in factories that run on solar power in which no waste is produced. In the production of our Holz100 walls, all processing is optimized so that almost no waste is produced here as well. The small amount of waste that may be produced can be thermally recovered and immediately supply the production plants with energy.

As it is in the forest, everything stays in circulation and we can create a future suitable for grandchildren.

Raw materials in the cycle

Even when laying the individual components, care is taken to ensure that as little as possible of the precious raw material wood is lost. Window and door openings are recessed.

A farmer from the surrounding area of our Holz100 plant in Stadl picks wood chips from the production of our houses. "The chips are perfect for mucking out my stables - they are dry and pure in nature!"

It does not look like this with us! The waste from the wood glue binder production would have to be disposed of as hazardous waste as shown above. Our factories however, are devoid of and encounter no such problem.

Energy generation then and now

The steam engine that drove the saw Gußwerk 1907 is still standing. It is no longer in operation.

Today, a highly efficient biomass cogeneration plant supplies the saw and the village of Gußwerk with green electricity. Small remainders from the Holz100 production are also used to generate energy.

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"The Biggest Mistake in My Life"

12/7/2017

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Dr. Erwin Thoma:"In one of my talks, a gentleman stood up and told the audience in his own words about the biggest mistake he ever made:

'I am working in the building and real estate industry and a few years ago, I built a house for my wife and me. This house had external wood cladding which was painted with some wood preservatives as was usual then. Two years later, my wife gave birth to our first child which is now physically and mentally disabled. We never tried to prove a connection between the wood treatment and the disability of our child; it couldn't make our child healthy either. However I do know now that treating the external cladding of our house was the biggest mistake I ever made.'"

Why Toxic Wood is a Concern

Synthetic paints, chemical treatments and large-scale wood lamination turn wood into a mix of different materials and compounds. Their effect upon humans is mostly unknown and it is impossible for the average consumer to correctly gauge the risk they are taking with these products.

Why does the wood industry produce and install toxic building materials? Are authorities informed, not guilty or just plain negligent? Are chemicals really that bad?

Here is an excerpt from the 'Salzburger Nachrichten' back in the year 1993:

"Wood preservatives, two parole sentences"

Frankfurt Main (SN, APA). On Tuesday the Frankfurt "Wood Preservative Trial" sentenced both accused men to one year suspended prison term each and a total fine of 1.7 million Schillings, payable to several joint plaintiffs.The executive directors of the company XYZ, 64 year old XY and 62 XY were both sentenced guilty of negligent bodily harm, concomitance, the negligent release of toxins and selling toxic goods while being well aware of the danger they are posing."

Please, allow me now to tell you about my own personal motivation and why our family started taking toxic chemicals seriously.

After six years of living in the Tyrolean Alps in an old Timber cabin, we moved back to our home town in the area called 'Salzburger Land'. The cabin had been built of solid and untreated timber and the house accommodating us now was about 30 years old. It was built at a time when the words 'toxic' and 'building materials' were not yet combined.

Nobody was suspecting that building materials were going to cause serious harm to anyone's health. Our family was perfectly healthy until suddenly two of our children started coughing and having breathing difficulties.

First without fever, later with a slight temperature rise, followed by asthma attacks, fear of going to sleep and cries for help at night: "Mama, Papa, why can't I breathe anymore?" The first doctor didn't have a diagnosis but prescribed a dose of penicillin. The next doctor didn't have any idea either as to why this condition was persisting. He prescribed cortisone for our children and elaborated in their presence, how they would have to carry a puffer with them for the rest of their lives.

We needed a third doctor before we realized we couldn't expect any help from conventional medicine in this matter. This third doctor tested for allergies. Holding our boy's arm he exclaimed: "Oh my God, this boy is allergic to just about everything!"

He listed a selection of native trees and grasses. Strangely, I am a forester and I have taken my son at pre-school age on many walks and tracks throughout the seasons and blooming times of the year, day and night, in and out of the forest and never found him to be overly sensitive to anything.

Our commonsense told us that those medical reckonings couldn't be correct. Our children grew up in the Alps with goats, chickens, dogs and cats. There were no allergies or any other symptoms. Our son in particular spent a fair amount of time in the company of our Billy goat.

Apart from the goatish scent, we never noticed anything having a negative impact on him. The health symptoms had appeared just after we moved into our new house. We thought maybe something in our new environment was having this effect on our children's quality of life.

When looking closer at our new surroundings, we soon realized the house was playing a big part. The brick work was not insulated and therefore there were no dust or microfibers from mineral wool or emissions from plastic insulation. The wood cladding was not treated either and we ruled that out as a possible cause as well.

However, the floors were a different story all together. All the rooms had particle-board floors covered with carpets and vinyl. Particle boards are nothing more than wood shavings mixed with synthetic glues and pressed into boards.

After realizing this might be the possible source of our troubles, we removed all chip and particle boards as fast as we could and replaced it with untreated and solid wooden boards from native trees like oak, ash and larch. There is no toxic wood in our house anymore.

Shortly thereafter, our children were back to their normal healthy selves. What a relief! Like the man who made the biggest mistake. We too couldn't find a 'scientific diagnosis' for the disease of our children. The most important thing for us was the result: Our children have their health back.

I remember the times when he was ill in bed and I told him that every illness has a reason and how faith can move mountains. We all believed strongly that one day he would be running again like a deer in the forest.

The question: "Mama, why can't I breathe anymore?" cannot stay unanswered.

Just think about how it could have ended if we had taken the advice of any of the doctors, if we were prepared to settle for an asthma puffer and not changed the floors of our home at all! Just now, while I am writing these lines, our eldest son has come home from school and told us that he was the fastest runner today.

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Radiation Safety

Waste-Free Life Cycle of Holz100 Buildings

Building with the forest:
Everything remains valuable

Raw materials in the cycle

Energy generation then and now

"The Biggest Mistake in My Life"

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Radiation Safety

Waste-Free Life Cycle of Holz100 Buildings

​Building with the forest:Everything remains valuable

Raw materials in the cycle

​Energy generation then and now

"The Biggest Mistake in My Life"

Author

Archives

Categories

Build your dream home with Holz100!Contacting us is your first step to build a healthier, safer and Cleaner Home.

Hours

Office

President FRANK GHAHREMANI

微信公众号:holz100canada

Building with the forest:
Everything remains valuable

Energy generation then and now

Build your dream home with Holz100!
Contacting us is your first step to build a healthier, safer and Cleaner Home.