This Appendix to the International Residential Code (2015) provides prescriptive and performance-based requirements for the use of baled straw as building material. Other methods of straw bale construction shall be subject to approval in accordance with … this code. Buildings using straw bale walls shall comply with this code except as otherwise stated in this appendix.
Author: International Code Council Inc. (ICC)
Link: https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/IRC2015P3/appendix-s-strawbale-construction