A new housing development set to open in Folsom in March is being built with a unique framing technology and design by Japanese homebuilder Sekisui House.
Called Shawood at Folsom, located at 4641 Dehone Circle, just north of East Bidwell Street, the homes offer spacious floor plans spanning up to 4,350 square feet and five bedrooms with oversized kitchens and indoor-outdoor living spaces. There are 41 lots available.
The company showed off its framing system Monday during a walk-through of the development. Unlike most conventional homes, where lumber is cut on site and nailed together, Shawood makes a fully laminated, precisely pre-cut product that is bolted together on site. Sekisui uses sustainable imported wood from Finland in its construction.
“What we’ve been doing in the U.S. for decades is conventional two-by-four construction using conventional studs and headers and it’s been done essentially the same since the ’50s, or maybe even longer,” Troy Wood, manager of value engineering for Sekisui House, said. “The post and beam construction is different from the sense that all of our material is imported from Japan, and all of our material is laminated from sustainable wood that’s coming from Finland.