This paper describes an investigation into moisture levels in straw bale walls used to clad a newly constructed...
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Re-Baling Straw for Better Insulation
Agricultural straw bales, produced as a co-product of cereal crops such as wheat and rice, have been used in...
Evaluation of the thermal performance of an innovative prefabricated natural plant fibre building system
Authors: Shea, AndrewWall, KatharineWalker, Pete
Detailing the effective use of Rainscreen Cladding to Protect Straw Bale Walls in Combination with Hygroscopic, Breathable Finishes
Straw bale buildings are still a relatively unfamiliar sight within the UK‘s building stock. However, the drivers of...
Comparison of Vertical Light Wooden Constructions Insulated by Straw Bales
The main task of configuring engineer by designing enclosure construction is to set up performances of the wall to the...
Nearly Zero Energy Communities: Proceedings of the Conference for Sustainable Energy (CSE) 2017
This book addresses the main challenges in implementing the concepts that aim to replace the regular fossil-fuels-based...
Hygrothermal behaviour of straw bale walls: experimental tests and numerical analyses
Straw is an organic material with hygroscopic properties. The high capacity it has for storing moisture from the...
Experimental Study on Hygrothermal Performances of Indoor Covering Materials
Several clayey materials were prepared in the Thermophysical Laboratory of Bari. Hygrothermal properties were measured...
Investigation of the Physical and Mechanical Properties of Straw as a Building Material
This article analyses how straw and straw buildings pass the basic requirements given in Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 of...
An innovative straw bale wall for sustainable buildings: experimental characterization, energy and environmental performance assessment
Natural materials, such as straw bale and earth, have substantially less embodied energy than processed materials so...
Moisture Properties of Plaster and Stucco for Strawbale Buildings
Straw, as a fibre, has been used as part of building materials for several thousand years. With the invention of the...
Projet aPROpaille: Vers une reconnaissance de l’usage de la paille comme matériau isolant dans la construction
Introduction to the aPROpaille study Author: Louis, Arnaud
Design, construction and validation of a guarded hot plate apparatus for thermal conductivity measurement of high thickness crop-based specimens
The search for sustainability achievement in the building sector led to the use of crop-based insulation materials...
Ecococon-8 Determination of water vapour diffusion resistance
Author: Ecococon
Ecococon-7 Determination of vapour transmission
Author: Ecococon
Ecococon-3 Determination of thermal conductivity of pressed straw
Author: Ecococon
Heat bridges straw bale
Cahier de ponts thermiques de parois isole es en paille. Action 3 du projet PRO-PAILLE2 : Réalisation d’un carnet de...
thermal characteristics and energy performance requirements for new buildings and new parts of buildings – Article Annex IX
Specific heat Cp straw
Détermination de la capacité thermique massique de deux échantillons de paille. Author: LNE
Determination of declared thermal conductivity and mass-related moisture conversion coefficient to high moisture content
EPB beslissingscriteria strobaal (FR: Critères de décision tribaux) (EN: Stribal decision criteria)
EPB Regulatory Overview
Masse volumique ρ [kg/m³) Le bois et le bois d’œuvre: Conductivité thermique (λ_U ) [W/mK] Chaleur spécifique c...
Rules for the calculation of transmission losses in the context of the ILL regulation Annexe B1
Règles pour le calcul des pertes par transmission dans le cadre de la réglementation PEB CALCUL DU COEFFICIENT DE...
UP STRAW Report on Teaching – Strategic plan for implementing straw courses into existing curricula
Worldwide climate change, economics and social concerns have highlighted the need for a change in the practices and...
EU-Fire-Handbook-European-fire-standards-and-national-legislation
The European reaction-to-fire classification system was introduced in support of the Construction Products Directive...
Load bearing Capacity of Straw Bale Walls with small Bales
Loadbearing capacity of strawbale walls – a summary of results from peer-reviewed literatureThis report is intended to...
Current Research of Fire Resistance of Straw Bale Structures at CTU in Prague
Authors: Ruzicka, JanPokorny, Marek
Shock resistance external walls
Dans le cadre de la rédaction des Règles professionnelles de l’Isolation Thermique par l’Extérieur en...
US-Strawbale Construction and Its Evolution in Building Codes
Strawbale construction – a wall system using baled straw as large, stackable blocks – was invented in the...
US-Straw Bale Construction and Building Codes
With today‟s emphasis on sustainable building construction, straw bale construction methods have received renewed...
US-Integrating Earthen Building Materials and Methods into Mainstream Construction Using Environmental Performance Assessment and Building Policy
Earthen building materials offer an environmentally sustainable alternative to conventional materials because they are...
Offgrid-huset
Self-sufficient house made by Steen Møller and students from the school where the house is built
Center for Halmbyggeri
Private allotment house for summer living
US-Ethics, Culture, and Structure in the Negotiation of Straw Bale Building Codes
This study explores building code negotiation between straw bale advocates’ ecology-oriented values and health...
US – 2018 International Residential Code for One- and Two-Family Dwellings
Appendix to the International Residential Code (ICR) for Straw Bale ConstructionAuthor: International Code Council Inc...
US – 2015 International Residential Code
This Appendix to the International Residential Code (2015) provides prescriptive and performance-based requirements for...
US – 2011 Oregon residential specialty code
The purpose of this appendix chapter is to establish minimum prescriptive standards of safety for the construction of...
Achieving legitimacy: visual discourses in engineering design and green building code development
This paper examines the processes by which early alternative, green-oriented building codes – namely those for straw...
Green Building and Sustainability: Diffusing Green Building Approaches in the UK and Germany
Concerns over the need to reduce energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and resource use are increasingly...
National technical assessment NTĮ-01-061:2013 published in Lithuania for Ecococon. Wooden frame panels with straw insulation
The technical approval is intended for timber frame external panels with a thermal insulation layer of straw...
Global Buildings Performance Network – Databases & Tools
Check out and browse our data on buildings energy performance policies through our interactive Databases and Tools...
Technical advice ISOPAILLE Ecovilla Mur
Isolation thermique de mur en panneau ou rouleau des produits à base de fibres végétales Thermal insulation of walls...
Professional rules for straw construction: insulating filling and rendering support: revised CP 2012 rules
“Straw, used as an insulating filling and plaster support, is not only used in the construction of individual...
CA-Sustainable earthen and straw bale construction in North American buildings: Codes and practice
The building industry accounts for up to 40% of the earth’s energy usage from material extraction through building...
CA-Straw Bale Building and the National Building Code of Canada
Straw bale building is a highly sustainable, low energy alternative to conventional building methods that has existed...
UP STRAW Building official Context and Policy Report
This report presents: A ‘snap-shot’ survey in 2020 of the CURRENT policy and regulations in the five project countries...
Straw: the ultimate ecological solution? | Build Green
Although it makes the actors of traditional construction smile a lot, the straw is coming back in force and it is not...
Old buildings – new uses: indoor swimming pool, (straw bale) brewery and water tower
Unusual living in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: in a luxuriously converted water tower, in a modern, extended railway...
EPD – Environmental Product Declaration for Straw as insulation material
In this LCA, the production, including harvest, of 1 m3 of straw for the English market with a density of 100kg/m3 and...
Straw Bale Building: Aufstockung Halle 118, Winterthur/CH
Foto: Martin Zeller Auf dem Lagerplatz Winterthur stockte das baubüro in situ eine bestehende Lagerhalle auf. Das...
Analysis of the Fire Properties of Blown Insulation from Crushed Straw in the Buildings
Sustainable development in civil engineering is the clear and necessary goal of the current generation. There are many...
GESA Haus des Lernens – House of Learning
Gesa built the House of Learning behind its headquarters at 36 Daniel Gran Street. An ecologically sustainable building...
Life Cycle Habitation – Sustainable housing and living in the community
The EU Life+ demonstration project “LIFE Cycle Habitation” in Böheimkirchen/Lower Austria is almost...
ESBG 2021 – a review
ESBA and all its members prepared 3 days of exclusively Straw Building News, screened live on YouTube, July 30 –...
Straw instead of Styrofoam? Climate-friendly building – Stroh statt Styropor? Klimaschonendes Bauen | ARD Mediathek
An old building material is on the rise again: straw. Building with the fragrant, yellow stalks is still left to...
URBAN STRAW – Fire protection conditioning of blow-in straw for building insulation of urban building classes 4 and 5
The common motivation and vision of the consortium is to establish straw insulation as a common, commercially available...
Technical Notebook Straw – Cahier Technique Biosources – la Paille
EN: This guide is intended for construction professionals. Architects, engineers and builders will find in it the...
Straagaarden
Raised concrete foundation with 70 cm musselshells as isolation. Wooden construction with KERTO beams, and big bales...
Test report on measurements of airborne sound insulation of a straw bale wall (2021)
EN: Beetzendorf, Sieben Linden, Guest house:Brief documentation of the results of the building acoustics measurements...
natuREbuilt – ecological materials in multi-storey new buildings and refurbishments
Project goal Although building with renewable building materials is becoming more and more important, there is a lack...
Modern Straw Bale Construction 2019-2021
This 40min video is a montage of the Zoom recording UP WHERE WE BELONG – modern straw bale construction in Europe...
Straw Bale House Database: Tour de Paille through France and Austria
Herbert Gruber from asbn – austrian strawbale network, also co-president of ESBA, presents the huge database of...
Ausstellungsgebäude | Gartist GmbH
Load-bearing straw building with cantilever roof Lasttragender Strohbau mit Kraggewölbe-Dach For the clients Joel and...
Sarah Wigglesworth straw bale house in London
Two decades ago, the architect built a groundbreaking green space for living and working. How has ‘the straw bale...
Gateway Building at The University of Nottingham’s Sutton Bonington campus
The Story of Straw… and how to use straw in a modern building. Make took one of the most traditional building...
Fassaden-Einblasstrohdämmung
The house was built around 1960. Christina Miedler wanted to choose an ecological path and move away from Styrofoam...
ESBG 2021 – a vision
The latest ESBA – the European Straw Building Association – General Assembly was held during the last ESBG 2019 in...
horizontal load transfer in stiffening straw bale walls – Untersuchungen zum horizontalen Lastabtrag in aussteifenden Strohballenwänden
In this article, the planning, execution, and evaluation of experimental tests on horizontal load transfer in walls...
Certified Passivehouse Component for Benediktinierabtei Plankstetten
Manufacturer: Benediktinerabtei Plankstetten im Interreg-Projekt UP STRAW Category: Construction Construction type:...
BE-Réglementation PEB du 01/07/2019 au 31/12/2020
Website of the Belgian thermal regulations for buildings. Straw does not have a specific lambda value. There is generic...
20 (25) years of Straw Bale Building: ASBN
20 years of straw bale building in Austria are a reason for the austrian strawbale network to celebrate – and this 160...
Nonconventional and Vernacular Construction Materials
Straw bale construction offers a sustainable, bio-based insulation material for construction derived from a co...
Steady state and dynamic hygrothermal performance of rendered straw bale walls
Wheat straw, in the form of compacted bales, is increasingly used as thermal insulation in the external walls of...
ESBA General Assembly 2020
Dear members of ESBA, dear interested people in straw building.The ESBA General Assembly 2020 was on Wed., Nov 25...
Straw buildings receive industry certification
Straw buildings receive industry certification from University of Bath on Vimeo.
How to add your straw bale house to the database
The database you see on the map was made by UP STRAW partners in 5 countries: FR, NL, DE, BE, This is the base of ESBA...
Project FAI-Re – La paille – the straw bale
EN: As part of the 8 videos on ecological materials produced within the framework of the FAI-Re project and its...
A review of material properties and performance of straw bale as a building material
Straw bale constructions are considered a promising solution towards the goal of decarbonisation of the building sector...
FNR brochure “Straw-insulated buildings” published in fifth edition – FNR-Broschüre „Strohgedämmte Gebäude“ in fünfter Auflage erschienen
Building and insulating with straw is no longer an insider tip for experts. Because the possible uses for the...
ESBA News
After a quite challenging corona-year ESBA is ready to start in a more quiet autumn-season. As workshops and trainings...