[GSBN] How many strawbale buildings in the USA?

[Misha Rauchwerger]

Hi Frank,

Since it looks like we're trying to figure out a good factor to multiply
the number of official or registered buildings to get actual statistics,
I'll chime in with what I know of our local rural community.  We have 3 on
the Straw Bale Registry, but 9 that I know of.  the county is about 55,000
people.  There may be a couple more built that I don't know of.

best,
Misha Rauchwerger


On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:13 PM, kim thompson
<shipharbour at ns.sympatico.ca>wrote:

> Hi Frank,
>
> In 2006 i did a project with CMHC (Canada Mortgage and Housing) and
> documented 34 SB buildings  in Atlantic Canada-
> an estimated 50 had been built at that time.
>
> At a guess I'd say there are at least another 25 more today. We don't have
> an official means of tracking them - so while I
> used to eventually hear of most of those being built in Nova Scotia, now
> they are popping up all over with more local folks to act as resource
> people.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Kim,
> From our small (not quite an island) paradise.
>
>
>
> On 2013-09-17, at 9:58 PM, Frank Tettemer wrote:
>
> > The Ontario Natural Building Coalition (previously OSBBC) has a registry
> of 135 houses.
> > During the period from 2002 to 2010, we were pretty diligent about
> canvassing for registrants, offering a free life-time membership in the
> OSBBC. Lately, we've had fewer volunteer registrants, as we haven't been
> calling out for them.
> > This sounds similar to your experiences, Bill Christensen, is it not?
> >
> > My slightly-educated guess is that there are over 300 straw bale homes
> in this province.
> > A very prolific plasterer that I know, (named Tina), has said that she
> has worked on over 140 different homes, in the past fifteen years.
> > Some on the board of the ONBC believe that there are closer to 350 SB
> homes.
> >
> > Ontario probably has the most SB homes per Province, with British
> Colombia having perhaps as nearly as many. (But maybe Habib Gonzalez could
> quit making me laugh with his crazy Old Man Jokes long enough to count the
> SB homes out in his province, Eh? Habib?)
> >
> > Nova Scotia has a count, made by Kim Thompson, and last I heard, there
> were over two dozen in that small island paradise. The remainder of Canada
> is unknown to me, but that in itself suggests that there are not a sizable
> number in those other remaining provinces, or we'd hear about them.
> >
> > All in all, if i was a gambling man, I'd bet fewer that 1,000 SB homes
> exist in Canada, including all those hermit reclusives.
> > And if I seriously had to pick a number ... Well then ...
> > I'd pick 800 for all of Canada.
> >
> > --
> > Frank Tettemer
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> >
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