Buildings and constructions on the base of timber for the Arctic regions

Abstract

Economic efficiency of development of high-latitude territories directly depends on the construction technologies applied here. Traditional materials such as reinforced concrete and steel cause unacceptably high resource consumption throughout the entire technological chain of construction production in the Northern regions, and the mechanical transfer of construction technologies to high-latitude construction are ineffective. Analysis of environmental effects on buildings and structures has shown that the most effective for the Extreme North is the dome shape, namely: the building of the lenticular shape; dome building; the building in the form of a sphere; in the form of a cone formed by rotating the Reuleaux triangle around the vertical axis of symmetry; the building of tetrahedron type, and various shapes formed by the combination of buildings of dome shapes. The rationality of constructions made of wood and wood materials is emphasized, which determines the necessity of creating an industry of glued elements. It has been widely used in high-latitude construction and has proved to be the best in terms of frost resistance, low resistance to corrosion from blizzards, high specific strength and low thermal conductivity for a long time.