SB: FW: Articles and stuff. Mostly articles, I guess, and not so much stuff.

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Hi everyone--Following is a message from Mark Piepkorn that he 
thought folks on the list might be interested 
in.....................Sara.



From: Mark Piepkorn <duckchow@potkettleblack.com>
Subject: Articles and stuff. Mostly articles, I guess, and not so much
   stuff.

         I'm sitting in a camper in a campground with a laptop working 
on a long-needed redesign of the TLS website, and just had the 
opportunity to re-read a piece that Judy Knox wrote back in '96 for 
the first resources issue. I was particularly moved by some of her 
words in the second part of the article, which ring as true today as 
they did then. Truer! The article is at 
http://www.strawhomes.com/backissues/articles/15_01.html

         Also, I put up some photos of a low-tech bale retrofit 
project in Maryland, along with some shots of a new SB addition on 
the same house. They're at 
http://www.potkettleblack.com/misc/sam1.html (it's Sam Droege's 
place, who used to be on the CREST list a good while back, and was 
host of the '98 Colloquium East... photos from that event are online 
at http://www.strawbalecentral.com/abc/nbce.html ).

         Sam embodies the spirit of an excellent essay by Rod Miner 
with Marty Stomberg, also from the pages of TLS, which can be found 
reprinted on the web at 
http://www.strawhomes.com/backissues/articles/21_1.html

         Ooh, ooh, ooh - another terrific article from TLS past (#13, 
Winter 1996), this one penned by Amy Klippenstein and Paul Lacinski, 
who is co-author of the book Serious Strawbale. "Regional Identity: 
Questions for the Nebraska-Style House" can be found online at 
http://www.strawhomes.com/backissues/articles/13_6a.html

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Forwarded message:

From: Mikael Westermarck <Mikael.Westermarck@hut.fi>
Subject: Clarification on SB structures is published

Dear friends and colleagues,

We have now finished a clarification on straw bales as a construction 
material in the wooden buildings of farms. The report in Finnish is 
published in our web site 
http://www.hut.fi/Yksikot/LRT/Olkipaalirakentaminen and can be 
downloaded without charge. In case your studies in Finnish language 
are not so far yet you can still exploit the structural design part 
of the publication which is illustrated with several drawings. The 
project was carried out mostly as an international clarification and 
no new tests were done in the project. However we made some 
calculations about the condensation of water vapour in different 
circumstances and the result was that in our climate which is very 
humid there should be used some kind a water vapour barrier (minimum 
of 40x109 m2 s Pa/kg) in the animal houses. The structures of 
residential houses however can desorb the amount of water during the 
warm period that is adsorbed during the cold period. There are two 
follow up measurements of RH inside the bale structures going on in 
Finland but unfortunately the results were not yet ready to be 
reported in this publication.

We want to send especial thanks for following people for providing us 
important material for this clarification:
· Markus Piringer, GLOBAL 2000, Austria
· Hannes Hohensinner, Gruppe Angepasste Technologie / Technische 
Universität Wien, Austria
· Rob Jolly, Department of Civil Engineering and School of 
Architecture, University of Waterloo, Canada
· John Straube, Canada

Please feel free to pass this information to anybody who might have use of it.


Best regards,

Mikael Westermarck

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Mikael.Westermarck@hut.fi
http://www.hut.fi/Units/LRT
Tel.  +358-(0)40-7364277, Fax. +358-(0)9-43982857
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