Whether you’re planning a sleek or rustic-looking house, straw bales are a low-cost and sustainable building material with flexibility writes Paul Downton.
Author: Downton, Paul
Straw bale: an enduring building technique
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About the author
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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.