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AFAIK most places in Europe use brick, at least the UK does
But like, what's the structure of the house made out of? I can't imagine the structural bits can be made out of bricks?
Reinforced concrete. It's cheap to create, the materials are quite cheap, it's very strong, and you can make it have any shape.
I never understood why the US makes strctural bits out of wood. I can understand using it on the walls, but it's completely unfit for the structure.
I'd bet most people here claiming their houses are made of bricks have a reinforced concrete structure hidden inside brick molds on the corners.
What makes wood unfit for structure? I don't know much about buildings, but it looks pretty strong and flexible to me?
Nothing.
This person is kinda saying nonsense.
Wood is perfectly sound for structural building.
There are wooden temples in Japan dating back to the 6th(7th?) century.
A stone structure would have been shook apart by now.
Different materials have different use cases.
To clarify for people who don't know: japan has a shit ton of earthquakes.
They use the metric system so I believe it’s a shit tonne
Right but for earthquakes the global standard is imperial. Nobody uses metric, except the french during the paris commune, the kingdom of hawaii, and mongolia.
Maaaaaybe north korea and cuba, but definitely not vietnam; it was a whole thing in the 80s.
Oh my mistake you are obviously more well versed, I will only refer to earthquakes by their shit-tonnage from here on out
Not the individual earthquakes, but the quantity of them
I don't know shit about individual earthquakes.
Racism and an incessant need to feel superior to others no matter what.
The European way
Compared to steel? I would recommend you check your eyesight.
It's also labor intensive, and has plenty of durability problems. Also, worst of all, there is a huge amount of problems that can weaken it but are completely invisible once you finish your walls. Problems that happen often, because of that labor intensity.
Well i mean we're talking houses here, not record-breaking high-rise buildings.
As for issues with structural wood... Tbh they're pretty rare. Probably more common than, say, the steel in your walls rusting or something, but still, not to a worrisome degree.
The main one is insects. Water (leading to mould) is also a thing but water infiltrations are terrible news no matter the material so...