Straw-bale Building United Kingdom
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 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 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 July 30, 2021 by Cypren Edmunds
‘Cement Free Foundations’ Saturday 31st July 1035 – 1135 BST online (Zoom) ‘Straw and Building Regulations’ Saturday 31st July 1225 – 1245 BST online (Zoom) Barbara Jones is a strawbale building guru having set up construction companies Straw Works, and Amazon Nails. She is…
Posted on July 28, 2021 by Cypren Edmunds
‘Airtighness’ Saturday 31st July 1400 – 1420 BST online (Zoom) Paul Jennings of Aldas, is the most experienced airtightness tester and consultant in the UK, and, with over 30 years’ experience originated the “Airtightness Champion” concept. He developed the 12 Steps to Airtightness approach to enable…
Posted on July 28, 2021 by Phil Christopher
Saturday 31st July 1000-1540 BST online (Zoom) ESBG events start on Friday and finish on Sunday. The full schedule of ESBG events is viewable here: https://strawbuilding.eu Sign up for tickets using this link and on Friday and Saturday morning you will be sent information on…
Category: ESBG 2021, Events, Front Page Slideshow, upstraw Tags: esbg2021
Posted on July 27, 2021 by Cypren Edmunds
‘Straw Building Project Examples’ Saturday 31st July 1155 – 1225 BST online (Zoom) Chris Hawker is a founder and co-director of Hawkland Ecological Construction, along with his business partner David Copeland. Hawkland specialise in the use of appropriate materials, with a focus on sustainability…
Category: ESBG 2021, Events, Front Page Slideshow, upstraw Tags: esbg2021
Posted on July 27, 2021 by Cypren Edmunds
‘Straw and Mud – A Love Story’ Saturday 31st July 1440 – 1500 BST online (Zoom) Jeffrey Hart is a builder specialising in natural materials to create high performance, healthy homes. He is a founding member of SBUK and his podcast series, Building Sustainability…
Category: ESBG 2021, Events, Front Page Slideshow, upstraw Tags: esbg2021
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