Straw-bale Building United Kingdom
Posted on March 17, 2022 by Cypren Edmunds
We are very excited to announce that the ‘Technical Guide’ for Straw Construction, is now out! The Technical Guide is a vital component within the EU-INTERREG funded project, ‘UPSTRAW’, the aim of which is to promote the benefits and good practice of constructing with…
Category: Blog, Front Page Slideshow, News Tags: building, hastings, low carbon, skills, UPSTRAW
Posted on February 18, 2022 by Cypren Edmunds
Under the guidance of course leader, Hubert Gruber, our SBUK Director, Kit Jones, participated in the latest edition of the ‘STEP’ programme. STEP (Strawbuilding Training for European Professionals) is a strawbuilding course (online & practical) which is curated and led by qualified and professional…
Category: Blog, Front Page Slideshow, News Tags: education, low carbon, skills, strawbuilding
Posted on January 11, 2022 by Cypren Edmunds
In Winter 1993 a publication entered the built environment, etching its name as a hallowed journal for straw as a construction material – The Last Straw. Emanating from USA the first issue had a national/regional take on straw construction: structural testing in Tucson; construction…
Category: Blog, Front Page Slideshow, News Tags: air tightness, building, clay, firetest, hempcrete, loadbearing, modular, news, prefab, sand, skills, thelaststraw
Posted on December 4, 2021 by Cypren Edmunds
For the first time this gives an accurate assessment of the environmental impact of straw production in the UK. This was made possible by the European Up Straw INTERREG funded project. Led by The School of Natural Building this Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is…
Category: Blog, Front Page Slideshow, News, upstraw
Posted on November 5, 2021 by Cypren Edmunds
Here is a great article by RIBA on natural building materials featuring Grain Architecture’s Janna Laan Lomas. Janna will be presenting at RIBA’s online event: Guerilla Tactics, 9th – 11th November. Programme details are HERE and tickets are HERE A project of Grain Architecture‘s…
Category: ACAN, Blog, Events, Front Page Slideshow, News
Posted on October 25, 2021 by Cypren Edmunds
Energising our buildings has never become more important than now. The savvy among you would have been content to be up to speed with an ‘EPC’ or ‘U-Value’ but nowadays, the general public in the UK are seeing terminologies such as, ‘Whole House Approach’,…
Category: ACAN, Blog, Front Page Slideshow, News
Posted on August 18, 2021 by Cypren Edmunds
The School of Natural Building are working with Studio 3 Arts to build an extension on their community centre. Designed by architects company, Citizens Design Bureau and built by GPF Lewis and Wellspring Architecture, this is a transformation in London’s Barking and Dagenham. Read…
Category: Blog, Events, Front Page Slideshow, News
Posted on August 16, 2021 by Cypren Edmunds
The full video of our ESBG webinar 2021 is now available here: click on a timestamp below, or, on one of the images to go to directly to a chapter 00:00 History of ESBG & introduction to SBUK’s webinar by Cypren Edmunds 07:29 StrawBale…
Category: Blog, ESBA, ESBG 2021, Events, Front Page Slideshow, News, upstraw Tags: air tightness, building, esbg2021, low carbon, online, video
Posted on August 14, 2021 by Cypren Edmunds
Now online for you to view at your leisure is the ‘Straw’ Masterclass we took part in last month. Thank you ACAN 🙌 💚 for the platform to speak about this beautiful, natural material & to all speakers who participated. Click on the image…
Category: ACAN, Blog, Events, Front Page Slideshow, News Tags: #ACAN, #event, #natural materials, #straw
Posted on August 5, 2021 by Cypren Edmunds
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