Uploaded on 2019-05-01 by Nikiforos Tolis

Southern Greece-Sweden The above image illustrates the result of the wooden roof structure and the distance between the structure’s location and the product’s origin. The village is located in the central forestry mountainous Peloponnese’s region at southern Greece. The forest measures approximately 300 sq.m. of conifer trees. In the industrial revolution era, a very profitable forest-based industry was established. In the late of the 20th century the insufficient process, the lack of certification and standardization and also the wildfires, which in Greece are historically light up in suspicious causes, made the industry to shut down as its product was no longer sustainable. Thus in construction, the structural engineer selected a Swedish product and not a local as he wanted to assure his calculations and achieve a high-quality result. Although this paradigm is not as extreme as this of the intercontinental importing of structural products i.e. between Europe and eastern Asia, the effective cost should be mentioned. The reported countries belong to the European Union and as a result, both are receiving broader benefits. Financial and environmental cost exist due to transportation and also the social and population formations that the countryside endures due to insufficient use of the local sources.