Passive house in Leibnitz

Passive house in Leibnitz
Written by Herbert Gruber

New brick building, passive house, with straw bales attached to the façade, which were then plastered directly.

Project Data

Place:Leibnitz Completion:2008 Construction:straw bale wrapping Design:Bestand Straw Builder:Stroh & Lehm Carpenter:Stroh & Lehm Stroh & Lehm Visitable:No Press photos:No
U-Value (Wall):W/m2K U-Value (Roof):W/m2K Categories: Passive House, Projects Austria, Straw Bale Wrapping,

Ziegelneubau, Passivhaus, mit an der Fassade angebrachten Strohballen, die dann direkt verputzt wurden.

About the author

Herbert Gruber

Herbert is author of the book "Neues Bauen mit Stroh in Europa" (New Building with Straw in Europe), head of the austrian strawbale network ASBN and partner in the Leonardo-project "STEP" (Strawbale Training for European Professionals) and the Erasmus project "BuildStraw Pro" (a project to get formal national recognition of the training) and "Make your City Smart". As a collector he documents European straw bale buildings since 1999 on his website (database, german), in lectures, workshops and books.