[GSBN] Strawbale houses can fly!

[Derek Roff]

Very exciting, Martin.  Please keep us posted.

Derek

--On Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:51 AM -0700 martin hammer 
<mfhammer at pacbell.net> wrote:

> Thanks Catherine.  It's amazing to watch the beautiful straw bale
> Ecohouse "fly" from its birthplace in the National Mall to its
> permanent home in Maryland.
>
> Very recently another SB house took to the air.  At last weekend's
> CASBA conference Darcey Donovan showed a slide of the full scale
> Pakistan house specimen built at the University of Nevada, being
> lifted by crane and "flying" over to the indoor shake table for
> testing.
>
> The shake table test will occur this Friday.  We're looking forward
> to what this important test will reveal about the system being used
> in Pakistan, and SB in general.  To my knowledge it will be the first
> full scale SB building to be tested on a shake table.
>
> Martin Hammer



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