Join us from September 18–21, 2025, in Canet de Mar, Barcelona, Spain for the European Straw Bale Gathering (ESBG25), hosted by the RCP (Spanish Straw Building Network). URL: ;...
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ESBG 2025 in Spain: join the competition!
LOGO & SLOGAN CONTESTS! Do you dare to propose a LOGO and/or SLOGAN for the ESBG 2025 in Spain?*You can participate...
Straw Bale Building Training in Sweden at Ecotopia
A course for self-builders and professionals Date: 6-9 June 2024 Are you thinking about building a straw bale...
STEP Straw Bale Training for European Professionals 2026
[Updated Oct 2025] If you make national or international straw bale trainings or courses, if you want to be a trainer...
News from ESBA members 2023
New stunning straw bale (apartment) houses, built in 2023. Successful STEP Trainings in Portugal, Austria and Spain. A...
ESBG 2023 in Denmark
With about 140 participants, we can call it a success for this years ESBG in Brenderup. ESBA started a cooperation with...
News from ESBA Members 2022
ArTUR – Sustainable Architecture (Slovakia) ArTUR organized for the project „Living smart with climate change“ 11...
ESBG 2021 – a review
ESBA and all its members prepared 3 days of exclusively Straw Building News, screened live on YouTube, July 30 –...
ESBG 2021 – a vision
The latest ESBA – the European Straw Building Association – General Assembly was held during the last ESBG 2019 in...
ESBA General Assembly 2020
Dear members of ESBA, dear interested people in straw building.The ESBA General Assembly 2020 was on Wed., Nov 25...
Natural Building Festival in Poland
In June 2019 OSBN, the Polish Natural Building Organisation, invited to a Festival in Lodz, showing straw bale...
ESBG 2019 in UK
The European Straw Bale Gathering (ESBG 2019) was held in Todmorden.Click here to find all presentations and Downloads...
ESBG 2017 Venice: the Galleries
ESBG Group-Photo 18.06.2017 ESBG Meeting 16.-18.06.2017 Photos: Herbert, Viktor ESBG Tour 15.06.2017 Photos: Herbert...
ESBG – European Straw Bale Gathering in Venice: the Program
Friday 16 june, 9.30 – 11.30: Round tables – Calls and fundings: moderator Luca Guarneri, Regulations and...
ESBG – European Straw Bale Gathering 2017 in Venice: 15. – 19. June
Promopaglia is pleased to invite all the ESBA Community to the next ESBG, which will take place in Venice –...
ESBG 2017 in Venice / Italy: June 15 – 19, 2017
Promopaglia is pleased to invite all the ESBA Community to the ESBG 2017 which will take place in Venice –...
Strohbau Rocks in Germany: 14-18 October 2016
LINK ZUR GALERIE: das Programm Strohbau on the Rocks Bauen mit Stroh 2016: Fachtagung unter der Zugspitze 14. Oktober...
Archive: Contemporary Bio-architecture by Gernot Minke and Werner Schmidt
We invite you to this great event in the centre of Bratislava – the capital of SLOVAKIA! When: 18.6.2016, 17:00...
ESBG – European Straw Bale Gatherings 1999-2021
In 2021 the ESBG was a united effort of 9 organisations in whole Europe, presented by Herbert Gruber/ESBAAll...