Now, he hosts six straw bale construction workshops per year and participants travel from around the world to attend. Participants from Taiwan, Portugal, Sweden and Denmark have taken part.

Was it difficult to convince the school to go for a straw bale building? Not really ... We’ve used one imported from Portugal which matches the local variety as closely as possible. On the flat ...

Professor Walker led the project in developing and testing straw bale construction, including the testing of weight-bearing, structural, and thermal qualities in straw bales. The project was ...

Less than a mile from Napa’s 2017 fire ravages, designer-builder John Swearingen of Skillful Means is constructing a curious house: one made of compact, industrial-strength straw bales.

When building post and beam in straw bale, what if I substitute concrete block columns for the wooden posts? Will they draw moisture into the straw? They could. However, the usual practice is to ...

It shows the sleeves-up, hands-dirty process of building a straw bale home on Chouinard’s plot in a middle-class, suburban Ventura neighborhood. A centuries-old building practice, straw bale ...

for the Hyllie building, a 12-story apartment tower made of timber and straw. Hyllie, Malmö [Rendering: ETC Bygg/Kaminsky Architects] Bassett-Dilley, who has experimented with a straw bale shed ...

BINGHAMTON (WBNG) -- The Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments, Inc., or VINES, is set for the new headquarters building to place its first straw bale at the Susquehanna Street location.

for the Hyllie building, a 12-story apartment tower made of timber and straw. Bassett-Dilley, who has experimented with a straw bale shed for his kid’s school and is currently working on a pair ...