International surveys acknowledge that timber construction has a great future. While the ecological component has constituted the decisive factor until recently, solid economic arguments play an increasingly important role now.

Projects like the reconstruction of the earthquake region around L'Aquila, Italy, provide impressive evidence of the efficiency of the solid wood system construction. Of all construction materials, wood features the best relation between weight and load-bearing capacity. Timber construction is therefore most suitable to realize buildings on particularly difficult terrain, e.g. on a mountain ridge in Zillertal in Tyrol, likewise roof systems on Gründerzeit houses in central Vienna. Wood is the material that is selected most often when it is a matter of passive houses and houses with low energy consumption. And for good reasons, according to the experts—wood  succeeds in complying with structural-physical requirements to the greatest possible degree. Many opt for wood because of its atmospheric characteristics: the agreeable surface temperature, its capacity to balance temperature and moisture peaks. Likewise, wood—like plaster—exercises a positive influence on the well-being of people and thus on their health—which also constitutes an economic factor.