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 November 24, 2022 by Cypren Edmunds
YouTube video of our members’ meeting with Joe Giddings is available to watch here
Posted on July 6, 2022 by Cypren Edmunds
SBUK’s members were at this year’s Ecobuild. Together with ‘Natural Building Materials’ groups we displayed and demonstrated the beauty and benefits of constructing with low carbon products.
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 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 April 27, 2021 by Cypren Edmunds
🏆 The Bale House 🇬🇧Located in a UK Nature Reserve in Hastings this constructed with recycled, fireproof, and breathable materials. A unique straw bale building that requires next to no energy to run and stays comfortable all year long due to its high insulation….
Category: Blog, Front Page Slideshow, News, upstraw Tags: awards, building, constrawtium, energy, hastings, interreg, low carbon, skills, UPSTRAW
Posted on March 7, 2017 by Cypren Edmunds
The complexities of housing on a large scale need to be redressed especially when the debate on inclusivity and construction materials are taken in wholeheartedly. Read our take of this discussion at EcoBuild 2017 and come and visit us at Stand F209 over the 3…
Posted on April 5, 2016 by SBUK
We started the Skills-Database on ESBA website. If you are interested to offer your work also in other countries, please fill out this form (its free). Skills (natural building) Have a look here what others offer: http://www.strawbuilding.eu/category/skills/
Category: ESBA, Front Page Slideshow Tags: ESBA, skills
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