Re: [GBlist] Seeking southern strawbale and rammed-earth examples

[Brad Guy <guy_brad@yahoo.com>]

There is a strawbale house in Birmingham, AL that is
on the national register, apparently over 70 years
old.  I believe it is a public site. I could not tell
you the name but perhaps you might call the Birmingham
Chamber of Commerce.
Brad Guy
Center for Construction and Environment
--- Speireag Alden
<Joshua.M.Alden.91@alum.dartmouth.org> wrote:
> Sgrìobh Robert Jordan:
> 
> >Check out the strawbale registry.  I think it is at
> the greenbuilder
> >site. A devotee of strawbale was recently
> disheartened when she
> >read, I believe in Out on Bale, that strawbale
> would be a good
> >technology once the technical problems are solved
> i.e. the
> >propensity to leak at windows and the difficulty in
> separating the
> >straw from the capillary action of what it is
> sitting on.
> 
>      These problems have been solved.  In the case
> of windows, it's
> just proper detailing, as you'd find with any
> construction in an area
> where rain is usual.  In the case of separating the
> straw from the
> foundation and other sources of capillary action,
> there are more
> methods for doing that than you can shake a stick
> at.
> 
>      For further info, check out the StrawBale list.
>  You can get to
> it at http://www.crest.org/
> 
> -Speireag.
> --
> I feel most emphatically that we should not turn
> into shingles a tree
> which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror
> penetrated to the
> valley of the Euphrates.  -- Theodore Roosevelt
> 
>
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