Re: FWD: Rebar Use in SB

[John Swearingen <john@skillful-means.com>]

I agree, it's a lot of steel. We don't use pins any more, hardly.  We
detail the stucco to take the loads.  The pins aren't nearly as strong as a
properly detailed stucco and mesh wall.

John




At 10:21 PM 1/27/00 -0700, Mark Piepkorn wrote:
>Forwarded Message, plus responses showing that options exist
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>From: Wayne D. Nelson
>Subject: Rebar Use in SB
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>An interesting note from my trip to Oak Ridge National Labs in Tennessee
>last week is that one high school student calculated the amount of steel
>used in rebar pins in a strawbale house and found it to be 3/4 of the
>amount of that used in a steel frame wall house. I thought if a steel post
>and beam frame is used as well for straw bale and chicken wire it may have
>more steel than a steel frame house.
>
>Wayne Nelson
>Construction and Environmental Resources
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>From: "Jeff Ruppert" <jruppert2@uswest.net>
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>We haven't used rebar as pins in about 4 years.  We are even eliminating
>pinning in some of our buildings altogether and getting it approved by the
>building officials.  We prefer to use exterior pinning where we need it at
>all.  It's easier!  We use bamboo when we do.
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>Thanks,
>
>Jeff Ruppert, P.E.
>Odisea Engineering, Planning and Design
>2814 15th St.
>Boulder, CO 80304
>303/881-2905
>jruppert2@uswest.net
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>From: Harald und Margit Wedig
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>Hello Wayne,
>I think these calculations might be a bit exaggerated! Maybe a zero slipped
>to the wrong place, this can happen to theoretical people. Yet as
>strawbalebuilders me and many others didn't like the idea of all these iron
>pins inside our strawbale walls either. Many of us use nowadays bamboo,
>willow, hazelsticks or other organic material as an interior or exterior
>skeleton with great success.
>Harald Wedig
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John Swearingen
Skillful Means--Architecture and Construction

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