Bangkok--2 May--Oasis Media Prize of Wood Industry, a leading manufacturer and distributor of decorative wood products, takes another step forward and announces its new 5S home building innovation today at Architect ’08 under the name of “Chale’t Prefab. House — Modern Tropical Style”. The house, which is the first of its kind, will create a new dimension in Thailand’s wood working industry, as it could be completed within 3-15 days, as well as open a new window of growth opportunity in concert with the “Stop Global Warming” campaign. Mr. Khomwit Boonthamrongkit, Managing Director of Prize of Wood Industry Co.,Ltd. a leading manufacturer and distributor of structural and decorative wood products, discloses today that given its long credit standing, skills and expert in manufacturing and distribution of wood products, the company has taken another step forward and successfully invented the 5S farmed tree home building innovation, which could complete a house within a matter of 3-15 days. The innovation originated from the company’s own researches and developmentes is one of the company’s main policies to creating the-best-of-breeds home building technology. “This is really a big step forward for us. From manufacturing and distribution of wood related products, today we are able to offer one-stop complete home building service, which requires all aspects of knowledges and skills in home building technology. We have to conduct and invest a lot in thorough research and developments before we could come up with this solution, which we are proud to announce today at Architect ’08 that it could answer every question ever existed in modern tropical style wooden home building. With its wood components, the house is comfortable, suitable with our climate as well as energy saving, all of which could help contribute to stop global warming.” Mr. Komwit said.The company’s 5S concept includes - S 1 Speed — The house could be quickly built within 3-15 days according to each particular design, as all parts are prefabricated from the factory. - S 2 Save — This prefabricated house offers both energy as well as cost saving solutions. - S 3 Sanctuary — This tropical style resort house gives a sense of total relaxed privacy. Yet it is modern with 3 meters high ceiling and natural wooden walls. Simple, but elegant. - S 4 Science — The house is scientifically designed and built. Its structure is consisted of various layers of walls from different materials, which could reduce heat, absorb noise and offer durability as well as termite proof, while its roof is made using Chale’t Ecoteak Shingle Roof, which applies advanced heat treatment technology on farmed teak trees fully complied with the energy conservation and global warming campaigns. This technology has so far been considered as the latest development in wooden roof industry. - S 5 Strong — Accurately calculated using the Mitek 20/20 software, which is America’s leading roof structure manufacturer with 70% market share, all roof structure are prefabricated from solid wood. All joints, pillars and beams are made using seemless German technology, while its Chale’t Structural Engineered Flooring offers 65 mm thickness. This structural flooring could serve both structural as well as decorative purposes all at the same time and most importantly, it is designed by Prize of Wood Industy engineers to withstand typhoon velocity of up to 120 km per hour. Mr. Khomwit further added about his marketing plan and operating targets that Prize of Wood Industries intended to respond to wood related businesses, e.g. resorts, residential projects, or even private homes. Currently, the company has already marketed its products in the southern part of Thailand and on island resorts; where there are needs to build strong durable wooden houses in a very short period of time in order to save costs. Moving forward, the company also plans to expand its market to include international markets as it has already designed a set of one complete wooden house components to fit in a container. From extensive researches and developments, the company has successfully achieved its best-of-breeds 5S innovation, which could answer every question in home building technology, and invented Thailand’s first Chale’t Prefab. House — Modern Tropical Style, which takes both energy conservation and global warming into consideration. Further information please contact Oasis Media Co., Ltd Tel. 02-937-4735 Khun Saranyarat / Khun Piyaporn / Khun Tanapon Email : [email protected], [email protected] , [email protected]