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Prefabricated Modular Straw Walls and Panels for Houses Building and Building Renovation
Straw is compressed with low technology tools into bales, with a density of more than 90kg/m³ and acquires special...
Earth and Straw Bale: An Investigation of Their Performance and Potential as Building Materials in New Zealand
Is there a future for ‘natural’ or ‘alternative’ building systems in New Zealand? Do they have a role to play in the...
Technique du GREB
EN: Stemming from Canadian research (far north of Quebec), the GREB technique is a technique that combines a wooden...
Barley: production, cultivation and uses
Barley straw is one of the crop residuals that can be used as a building material. Straw is the plant structure between...
Neues Bauen mit Stroh in Europa – New building with straw in Europe – Construire en paille aujourd’hui
Straw as a building material also has a long tradition in Europe. In recent years, this rapidly renewable and easy-to...
Straw bale: an enduring building technique
Whether you’re planning a sleek or rustic-looking house, straw bales are a low-cost and sustainable building...
Straw construction – La construction en paille
Straw is a renewable, local, healthy resource with great insulating power. Luckily, France is a major producer of...
Bold and Daring: The Lone Oak
The Lone Oak building, five miles west of Lincoln on US Highway 6, built in 1944 and occupied in 1945, was constructed...
Evaluating the Barriers to Entry for non-conventional Building Materials
To achieve broader acceptance by the construction sector, novel and innovative materials and technologies often have to...
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains | BALED BIOMASS BUILDINGS
The idea of using bales of hay as building blocks emerged in the North Platte River valley after the appearance of...
Eco-efficient Construction and Building Materials
Addresses a new vision for construction materials by emphasizing the importance of their environmental impactCovers the...
Performance of straw bale wall: A case of study
This research aimed to evaluate a straw bale house located in Bavaria, Germany. An extensive test program was carried...
Building a house with straw in GREB technique – Construire son habitation en paille: selon la technique du GREB
Since Jean-Baptiste and Vincent imported the GREB technique into France, the virus has reached more and more people and...
Straw Bale House Survives Earthquake Test
Straw bale construction was put to the test on a shake table to get an idea of just how it would perform in an...
Briefing: Challenges related to straw bale construction
This briefing discusses the current challenges to the deployment of straw bale walling systems in the UK. A short...
Dynamic simulation and full-scale testing of a pre-fabricated straw-bale house
Straw is an agricultural by-product and, after accounting for use in animal bedding, the mushroom sector, and Biomass...
Straw-Cert: Certification, logistics and quality management for straw bale construction
Straw bales are building blocks of sustainable architecture. Austria has achieved thematic leadership in straw...
Suivi construction CRIEPPAM
This experimental building would not have been possible without the will of the administrators and the Director of...
Straw bale construction – La construction en botte de paille
Authors: FUCHS Stéphane; Krumm, Olivier; Cauderay, Elsa LINK to presentation
The future of cob and straw bale construction in the UK
Recent building research literature shows a renewed interest in the use of natural building materials for constructing...
Paper No: 218 Totnes Eco House: interaction between design and in-situ monitoring
This paper explores the decisions made during the design and construction of an award-winning Low Carbon House, and how...
Straw bales and (load-bearing) straw bale constructions – Strohballen und (lasttragende) Strohballenkonstruktionen
The dissertation was supervised by Professors Minke and Hensel at the University of Kassel’s Research Laboratory...
Introduction and design of straw bale masonry
Introduction and design of straw bale masonry Author: Adedeji, Adeola A. LINK to PDF
Evaluation of Strawbale Building: Benefits and Risks
This paper evaluates the range of current information in relation to construction using strawbales in walls of...
Innovative Nutzung von nachwachsenden Rohstoffen am Beispiel eines Büro- und Ausstellungsgebäudes
Have a look at the English summary on page 8: The S-HOUSE demonstration building is a show case for modern best...
Building your Straw Bale Home: From Foundations to the Roof
This practical guide is written especially for the owner-builder and provides step-by-step instructions supported by...
Normes, DTU, assurances, … et utilisation de la botte de paille (2006)
Author: Courgey, Samuel Link to Powerpoint
Practical Straw Bale Building
Building with straw bales is being embraced by amateurs and professionals for its versatility, comfort, environmental...
Breathability – the Key to Building Performance
Breathability is a misleading term, but it has now become firmly embedded in the vocabulary of building technology. It...
More Straw Bale Building | New Society Publishers
Straw bale houses are easy to build, affordable, super energy-efficient, environmentally friendly, attractive, and can...
Build it with Bales: version 2; a step-by-step guide to Straw Bale construction
Homegrown and folksy, this book is a gold mine of tips and techniques. No bale builder should be without it. Authors:...
Serious Straw Bale: A Home Construction Guide For All Climates
Presents a compelling rationale for building with straw in more extreme climates, where seasonal changes in...
Buildings of Earth and Straw: structural design for rammed earth and straw bale architecture
Chelsea Green’s The Rammed Earth House and The Straw Bale House chronicle the possibilities and realities of...
The Straw Bale House
Imagine building a house with superior seismic stability, fire resistance, and thermal insulation, using an annually...