Straw Construction in the Big Apple – La Construction Paille Dans la Cour des Grands

Written by esba

Two and a half years after the validation of the Professional Rules for Straw Construction by the Prevention Commission Implemented Products (C2P) of the CQA, the return from the field shows the crossing of a level. Large activity buildings, school groups, collective housing, town halls, theatres, are built or rehabilitated with various straw insulated building systems. And single-family houses are no longer confined to self-construction and are now the market of small specialist companies. Technical bases and overview of a creative and structured network.

Deux ans et demi après la validation des Règles professionnelles de la construction en paille par la Commission Prévention Produits mis en œuvre (C2P) de l’AQC, le retour du terrain montre le franchissement d’un palier. De grands bâtiments d’activités, des groupes scolaires, des logements collectifs, mairies, salles de spectacle, sont construits ou réhabilités avec divers systèmes constructifs isolés en paille. Et les maisons individuelles ne se cantonnent plus à l’auto-construction pour devenir le marché de petites entreprises spécialisées. Bases techniques et tour d’horizon d’un réseau créatif et structuré.

Author: Heitz, Philippe; Dec 2014

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The European Straw Building Association is an independent European association, devoid of any profit making motive. The object of the Association is to promote and develop the use of straw, as a sustainable way of building in all the senses of the term “sustainable”: renewable, ecological, healthy, energy and climate efficient, social and economic.
The Association is a federation composed of organisations and people particularly concerned with the use of straw in buildings.