[GSBN] Another request for help - about equivalances for light straw clay

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The message below is from Gord Baird in Victoria, British Columbia Canada at Eco-Sense... 

I find myself, after all these years of doing this, feeling more than a little frustrated at how much time and money we spend trying to prove that building in ways that have worked for centuries still work, while the folks building in ways that are driving all of us and our children up and off the edge of a huge cliff continue to get a free pass. One day, may the opposite the case...

David Eisenberg

This was addressed to Jack Stephens of the Natural Building Network and me:
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I have a client who 
is pulling her hair out.? She has spent well over $6000 on an engineer, to 
redesign a recyled Panabode with a larsen truss, with an earthen/lime plaster on 
the exterior, and light clay infill.? The District of Swchelt (north of 
Vancouver) now wants equivalencey testing.


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We have papers from 
Minke showing the perm ratings, and the R-Values of each; we have the plans of 
other buildings that have been built using similar materials.? The District 
is making this impossible for her.? 


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Do you have any 
sources of equivalencies for light clay straw (at 200 KG/m3) and for 1 1/2 " 
earthen plaster with 1/2" lime plaster?


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Thanks in advance 
for any help that might exist.


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Regards,


Gord





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