Why Europe Builds Up and America Builds Light.

A wooden dwelling in UK. We call them sheds!!

Ridiculous prices for wooden shacks.

And a lot of those concrete and stone buildings are built in earthquake zones, which is better suited to wooden structures.

Because Europe for long time had cheap feudal labour. Now everyone switches to stick frames or CLT and richest countries like Scandinavians or Swiss are on the front line.

American homes are cheap to construct and flimsy, as is demonstrated during a slight breeze or a drop of rain.

The person that made this video knows nothing about construction and should shut up

It's called earthquake

ok. but why americans insulate INSIDE walls

Why? Be a we understand forest management and can use wood beams for a fraction of the cost and weight.

Houses im USA sucks. And the newer construction are even worse than the old ones..

The answer is government overreach and bureaucracy creating cumbersome building codes written by people without an engineering degree and who have never built anything in their life.

i did this... 3 stories high, with only 1 asian man, lame

We even have a expression thats called; your are stone rich. So in the old days it was a expression for people that could afford a stone house.

Hoffe die Dampfbremse kommt noch darauf.

Stairs on stilts! Rad..

Americans restoration of an old building in France .

Light, flexible frame, quick construction, fast sale.

This shit is stupid!!

How disingenuous is this? This is someone’s château on the outskirts of a city. It cost as much to do these renovations as two or three American homes.

This is apples to watermelons. Renovating a decades old building with an internal steel skeleton is nothing like new construction there or here. You could remove the entire old building and the renovation would be fine. It's completely structurally independent of the old.

It's all about waste

The steel seems over designed.

There are all kinds of house construction methods used in Europe, including the wooden frame method shown in this video. Most European homes will have a mix of materials, including brick, concrete, steel, and/or wood.

Barndo houses in Texas use steel beams.

@grok what are the structural elements used in this renovation works?