{"id":117406,"date":"2020-12-20T00:22:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T08:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/take-a-look-at-these-houses-made-out-of-wooden-lego-like-bricks"},"modified":"2020-12-20T00:22:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T08:22:30","slug":"take-a-look-at-these-houses-made-out-of-wooden-lego-like-bricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/take-a-look-at-these-houses-made-out-of-wooden-lego-like-bricks","title":{"rendered":"Take a look at these houses made out of wooden LEGO-like bricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3JomKzYreaU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever dreamed of building an actual house using your very own grown-up, sustainable version of LEGO? Meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brikawood-ecologie.fr\/home\/\">Brikawood<\/a>, the company making that dream a reality and transforming the modular home business.<\/p>\n<p>Brikawood creates wooden bricks that interlock to create walls. This allows builders to assemble and disassemble an entire home without the use of glue, nails or screws. The wood-brick walls then get filled with wood shavings left over from the manufacturing of Brikawood bricks. These insulate both temperature and sound, which improve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brikawood-ecologie.fr\/passive-houses\/\">energy efficiency<\/a> and peace of mind.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s bricks are made out of wood harvested from quick-growing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/green-living\/the-good-wood-guide-eco-friendly-options-for-furnishing-your-home-5333472.html\">Douglas fir trees<\/a>. The trees are sourced from sustainable forests and certified as eco-friendly. Since the wood shavings produced by the manufacturing of the bricks are used as insulation, the entire Brikawood production results in nearly zero waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever dreamed of building an actual house using your very own grown-up, sustainable version of LEGO? Meet Brikawood, the company making that dream a reality and transforming the modular home business. Brikawood creates wooden bricks that interlock to create walls. This allows builders to assemble and disassemble an entire home without the use [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}