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

[cmagwood at kos.net]

Joshua Thornton authored a test document for light clay
straw for the CMHC a few years back. I don't know if it
works as an equivalency document, but it has a lot of good
information and having the Canadian government show some
interest in the system might be helpful in BC.

You can find the report online at the CMHC website, free.

Chris

>
> 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
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> 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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>
> ?
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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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> ?
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> Thanks in advance
> for any help that might exist.
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> ?
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>
> Regards,
>
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> Gord
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