Straw-bale Building United Kingdom
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 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 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 February 15, 2021 by Cypren Edmunds
Last year, SBUK member Dr Judith Thornton wrote a paper on Airtightness, of which we referenced here: https://strawbalebuildinguk.com/airtightness-and-natural-building-materials-by-judith-thornton Richard Dormandy has led the work on Holy Trinity Tulse Hill’s strawbale building, the ‘Neigbourhood Hub’, and you can watch The Holy Trinity ‘airtightness’ videos here:…
Category: Blog, Front Page Slideshow Tags: air tightness, building, community, low carbon
Posted on January 31, 2020 by Cypren Edmunds
This is a great introductory blog to those of you who are new to the idea of working with natural building materials. It challenges the outcomes of what is considered ‘airtight’ and the relevancy of that within construction and comfortability to the user. It…
Category: Blog, Front Page Slideshow, News Tags: air tightness, building, energy, low carbon, research
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