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Quality Assurance
Modern technology protecting the home
The quality assurance of Honka house production starts in design. All the local building regulations, as well as factors creating durable massive wood buildings, structural weather protection, energy efficiency economy and a long lifetime are taken into consideration in the design. The quality assurance in production begins with the sorting of wood raw material and ends with the packaging of log stacks. Each production stage has its own quality criteria. Important quality stages include the drying of the wood raw material and the gluing of the laminated logs, which are both monitored carefully during quality assurance. The drying process is optimised to achieve a steady quality of end product. The strength of the glue is studied using a de-lamination test, which is estimated to correspond to a weather stress of ca. 40 years. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland controls and audits the quality assurance at Honka as an independent body.
Honka uses the latest manufacturing technology, which it has developed continuously throughout its existence. The production of round and log timber parts is largely automatic. House parts are machined ready for installation in a computer-assisted process. The automatic process makes the measurements exact, meaning that the logs and timber parts are quick to install on site and building is effortless.
CE marking The CE marking is a valid authority marking in the European Union. It can be attached to a product, whose features and functionality comply with the requirements of a product standard or technical product approval. Honkarakenne Oyj was the first wood house manufacturer in Europe to receive the ETA approval (European Technical Approval) that entitles it to mark its houses with the CE-marking in 2004. At the beginning of 2008, Honka received ETA approval for the glued laminated beams and is now allowed to use the CE marking in them.