Straw-bale Building United Kingdom
Posted on April 8, 2023 by Cypren Edmunds
Securing finance to build homes that are energy efficient …better for the planet should be easy. Since 1987 Ecology Building Society have supported homeowners who #buildwithstraw We need mortgage products in-place to grow the market.
Category: Blog, News Tags: finance, mortgages, strawbuilding
Posted on April 8, 2023 by Cypren Edmunds
Category: Blog, Events, Front Page Slideshow, News
Posted on February 10, 2023 by Cypren Edmunds
The video of our online event with George and his home, Old Holloway, is now on our YouTube channel Watch it here and share with your network!
Category: Blog, Events, Front Page Slideshow, Meeting, News Tags: air tightness, building, low carbon, prefab, skills, strawpanels
Posted on November 4, 2022 by Cypren Edmunds
Join us at our next Members’ meeting Special on Wednesday 9th November, 7pm – 8pm. Our guest speaker is Joe Giddings of ‘Built by Nature’ and he will be discussing, ‘Timber and Insurance‘. Many of you that are involved with the practical elements of building with low…
Posted on July 18, 2022 by Cypren Edmunds
The video of our event: ‘MIscanthus – what it is and how can it benefit the sector?’ is now available to view. Thank you to our guest Fabrice Ntimugura for a brilliant presentation. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/jr2dO29sXys
Category: Blog, Front Page Slideshow, Meeting, News, upstraw Tags: #event, building, lecture, low carbon, strawbalebuilding
Posted on July 1, 2022 by Cypren Edmunds
Did you know that Miscanthus has water vapour permeability properties compatible with that in traditional construction and sequesters carbon (around 130 kg CO2eq/m3)? Join us on Wednesday 6th July, 7pm (GMT) as we discuss the building potential in construction of this bio based material….
Category: Blog, Front Page Slideshow, News, upstraw
Posted on June 24, 2022 by Cypren Edmunds
As part of my MSc in Green Building – Centre for Alternative Technology (cat.org.uk) at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) we had great fun on the “Sustainable Materials in the Built Environment” module in May 2022 experimenting on site with clay, lime, hemp, straw, miscanthus,…
Category: Blog, Front Page Slideshow, News Tags: building, cat, education, low carbon, skills, strawbalebuilding
Posted on May 27, 2022 by Cypren Edmunds
This report stresses that “from residential to commercial buildings, the UK’s built environment is responsible for 25% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions. The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) warns that to date there has been a lack of Government impetus or policy levers to…
Category: ACAN, Blog, Front Page Slideshow, News, Policy
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
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