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Category - Research
This huge collection of STRAW BUILDING RESEARCH is a co-production with the UP STRAW Interreg Project (contributors to this site: Herbert Gruber (ESBA, ASBN), Mike Deveria (ASBN), Hugues Delcourt, Wiebke Kaesberg, Barbara Jones, Benoit Fortz, Benedikt Kaesberg, Laurie Celina (UP STRAW), Jakub Jirku (StrohNatur), Dittmar Hecken, Burkhard Rüger, Dirk Scharmer (FASBA):
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...
Life Cycle Habitation – Sustainable housing and living in the community
The EU Life+ demonstration project “LIFE Cycle Habitation” in Böheimkirchen/Lower Austria is almost...
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...
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...
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...
Straw buildings receive industry certification
Straw buildings receive industry certification from University of Bath on Vimeo.
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...
Architecture Guide to the UN 17 Sustainabe Development Goals
The UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals represent the aspiration of the people of the United Nations for a more...
Building and Renovating with Straw – Construire et Rénover en Paille
This guide of the C.A.U.E. of Normandy advises adapted solutions of energy efficient and technically sustainable...
MOOC Building for change – Naturally
The European UP STRAW programme launched a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) all about building with straw: Building...
UP STRAW Report on external thermal insulation methods with straw (wrapping)
WP T3 Market developments for retrofitting existing buildings with straw insulation From a sustainability perspective...
UP STRAW Research report on thermal conductivity and water migration
The application of bio-based insulation materials like straw requires a value for its thermal conductivity. It’s...
UP STRAW Safety of strawbale walls in the event of fire
Report prepared for SNaB and UpStraw project. June 2020.Reaction to fire: clay and lime plastered strawbale wall...
Straw Bale Construction Manual: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture
Building with straw bales is a technique pioneered a century ago in the state of Nebraska. In recent years there has...
People are Future-proofing their Homes with Straw.
Straw bale wall systems stand up to fire twice as long than those built with standard materials. Author: Costley, Drew...
Straw bale Buildings: A Good Compromise between Environmental Sustainability and Energy-Economic Savings
Some straw bale buildings, which combine eco-sustainability with versatility, low cost and fast construction times...
Experience straw building – “Strohbau erleben” Podcast Folge 1
Strohbau erleben im Kloster Plankstetten: Nachhaltiges Bauen mit Tradition und modernster Technik.
MOOC Biobased Construction: Straw & Reed
Straw is a renewable material offering good thermal insulation properties and a much lower environmental impact than...
Cork and building straw as naturally historic insulation materials – Kork und Baustroh als natürlich historische Dämmstoffe
Advantages and disadvantages of cork and building straw in wall and roof constructions Vor- und Nachteile von Kork und...
Straw bale construction on screw foundations – Strohballenbau auf Schraubfundamenten
Gisela Immler and Siegfried Scherrer wanted to fulfil their dream of ecological building and, together with the...
Sandhills, Nebraska: the cradle of straw bale construction by Roger Welsh
EN Building a straw house, you don’t think about it! The wind will scatter the strands, the fire will reduce them...
An innovative straw bale wall package 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...
ActEco e-Learning Platform Straw Building, Clay, Training for Change
The Erasmus+ Project ActEco aims at integrating the already existing learning contents of STEP – Straw Bale...
Passiv House Certificate: Strawbale-Joist Construction Plaster-Plaster Passivhaus Zertifikat: Strohballen-Bohlenständerbau Putz-Putz
Passive House Certification Report Author: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Benjamin Krick LINK to PDF
Bio-Based Materials for the Italian Construction Industry: Buildings as Carbon Sponges
This work brings together some recent research and results in activities aiming at investigating the environmental...
Production of Sustainable Construction Materials Using Agro-Wastes
The construction sector, in modern times, is faced with a myriad of challenges primarily due to the increase in the...
Fire Resistance Evaluation of Pressed Straw Building Envelopes
Ecological construction has a tendency to increase. One of its directions is the straw bale-house. The safety of such...
Directly plastered straw bale components for building class 4 – Direktverputzte Strohballenbauteile für die Gebäudeklasse 4 – Brandschutztechnische Untersuchungen
The use of combustible materials in (multi-storey) buildings is limited in Germany. In the case of combustible...
Physical Properties of Straw Bales as a Construction Material: A Review
Straw bale buildings provide significant benefits in terms of costs, human health, and environmental sustainability...
European Straw Bale Gathering 2019 – Todmorden, UK. August 2019
The European Straw Bale Gathering (ESBG) is one of the most important meetings of straw bale builders, professionals...
Straw buildings : feedback from public projects in France (Envirobat Grand Est 2019)
Technical day on bio-based materials Organised by Envirobat Grand Est and Interreg BATI C2 in Reims (France) PPT...
FR: Fire behaviour of façades RE 2019
Author: Mélissa Laurans LINK
Utilization of Alternative Building Materials for Sustainable Construction
The world population is growing at unprecedented rates and it is expected to reach 9.8 billion in 2050. Today, non...
Vivihouse – the open licenced modular straw bale prefab system
ASBN was partner for Straw Bale Training and the production of Straw Bale insulated panels in the FFG-project Vivihouse...
Leaflet on the processing of construction straw – Merkblatt Verarbeitung von Baustroh – according to European Technical Assessment
Leaflet on the processing of construction straw according to European Technical Assessment ETA-17/0247 Status: 28...
DE-EN Strohbaurichtlinie 2019 – revised Straw Building Guideline 2020
EN This straw building guideline summarises the experience and knowledge of straw builders in Germany. It has been...
Strawbale Construction – A Least Embodied Energy Material
In the present scenario, the need for sustainable solutions is increasing, as our world is facing various difficult...
L écocentre de Saint Pierre de Frugie
“Pour ma planète” le rendez-vous autour de l’environnement de France 3 Limousin nous amène à la...
Comparative analysis of an existing public building made from natural building materials and reference buildings designed from common building materials
The paper examines a public building constructed of partially natural materials and two imagined buildings with the...
AT: Klassifizierungsbericht Einblasstroh (IsoStroh) – Classification of Blow-In-Straw (IsoStroh)
Classification for IsoStroh in combination with Fermacell Power Panel H20: B – s1, d0Valid until: 20. August 2024...
Structural performance of non-plastered modular straw bale wall panels under transverse and gravity loads
Straw bale construction has a proven track record as a viable alternative for residential construction. Structural...
Translation of technical terms related to straw construction
800 building terms translated into 4 languages, a small dictionary for builders and trainers, Excel-FileAuthor:...
Sustainable Bio & Waste Resources for Construction (SB & WRC)
The SB & WRC project aims to design and produce three thermal insulant prototypes for buildings, made from bio...
Assessment of Straw Degradation Inside Straw Bale Walls in Severe Cold Regions of China
With the increasing concerns of low carbon development of the building industry, the feasibility of using straw bale...
Physical Properties of Straw Bales as a Construction Material: A Review
Straw bale buildings provide significant benefits in terms of costs, human health, and environmental sustainability...
Physical Properties of Straw Bales as a Construction Material: A Review
Straw bale buildings provide significant benefits in terms of costs, human health, and environmental sustainability...
LCA straw bale CEREMA 2015 (base of EPD)
EN: As part of the SB&WRC project, the technical, environmental and economic characteristics of the three low...
Development and testing of a prototype straw bale house
This paper describes the research, development, construction and initial testing of an innovative low-carbon prototype...
Physical Properties of Straw Bales as a Construction Material: A Review
Straw bale buildings provide significant benefits in terms of costs, human health, and environmental sustainability...
Blow-in straw insufflation – demonstration by Wouter Klijn
Author: Gemeente Tilburg, May 2019 www.cirkelstad.nl LINK to ArticleLINK to PDF (Presentation Dutch)
Straw Bale Building Details | New Society Publishers
Straw bale buildings promise superior insulation and flexibility across a range of design aesthetics while using a...
Energy Analysis of Residential Building Using Revit
The construction industry uses a lot of natural resources clay, sand, stone, water and energy for developing various...
Increasing energy efficiency through interior insulation systems
As an alternative to the conventionally used interior insulation with a vapour barrier, diffusion-open, capillary...
Straw bale based constructions: Measurement of effective thermal transport properties
The use of eco-friendly thermal insulation in the building envelope is one of the passive and also sustainable means of...
Resistance to mold development assessment of bio-based building materials
Nowadays, insulating building materials are developed from the valorization of agro-resources. They show high...
Ecococon-6 Determination of airborne sound insulation factor
Pressed straw block. Dimensions: width 890mm, height 2,050mm, thickness 490mm. System: straw pressed into a wooden...
Low Cal : wood-straw offices, without heating, positive energy, low carbon and cost effective
Low Cal : bureaux bois-paille,sans chauffage, à énergie positive,bas carbone et coûts maîtrisés Author: Rieser, Thierry...
A Research on the Perception of Architecture Students about Straw Bale Buildings
Although straw bale construction has been used for thousands of years, currently does not attract considerable...
Thermal Performance of Panels with High Density, randomly oriented Straw Bales
This paper describes the hot-box testing (based on ASTM C1363-11) of seven straw bale wall panels to obtain their...
Thermal insulating plates produced on the basis of vegetable agricultural waste
The results of comparative tests of thermal insulating materials on the basis of various agricultural wastes are...
Rice Straw Bale Fire Test 2018
Research project to develop building solutions made out of local rice straw bales. Partnership with ITECONS – Coimbra...
Eco-sustainability and energy performance of a straw house
Together with Maisonéco, a modular system has been developed to present a solution combining eco-sustainability with...
Experimental assessment of separation distances of a load-bearing straw bale construction
With an increasingly dense urban structure and wider use of energy-efficient and combustible materials, the...
Construction and monitoring of experimental straw bale building in northeast China
Straw bale buildings have the potential to reduce the environmental impact of construction. Although the technique has...