[GSBN] How many SB buildings have been constructed in far northern climates?

[Jeff Ruppert]

We also have a write-up on the moisture meters here at TLS:

http://thelaststraw.org/build-your-own-simple-bale-wall-moisture-sensor-tls-57/

Jeff


On Sep 24, 2013, at 1:51 PM, RT <Archilogic at yahoo.ca> wrote:

>> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:56:17 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Sarah Seitz <sarahseitz5 at yahoo.com>
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>> How many SB buildings have been constructed in far northern climates?Can anyone think of specific buildings in Northern AB/SK/MB, Alaska, Yukon/NWT, Northern Ontario, Northern Norway, Sweden or Finland? I'd love to hear about any firsthand observations of moisture accumulation or IAQ issues in these climates.
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> I can hear the SB-Heads in Mongolia muttering:
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> "So ! What are we ? Chicken liver ?"
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> (ie There are SBH there and despite the popular saying that Ottawa is the "coldest capital in the world" I'm pretty sure that Ulan Ba-a-a-tor is colder.)
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> In the mid-to-late 1990's, Habib Gonzalez (who is on this List and was a resident of the Kootenays in BC at the time) and Rob Jolly (who is not on this List and who built his SBH near Edson AB)  fabricated a bunch of in-wall moisture sensors and stuck them in every imaginable orifice of a bunch of SBH throughout BC and AB and then collected data from those sensors and compiled them into reports which Don Fugler at CMHC Research had published by CMHC.
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> The plans for those sensors are still at the SB-r-Us Yahoogroup in the MOISTURE folder of the FILES section .
> In Rob Joly's PDF document, he provided a brief synopsis of his 20-page report.
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> The full reports should still be available from CMHC.
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> Also, I remember a fellow on the SB-r-Us list in the early days of that list who called himself "Loopy" (or maybe it was just me that called him that ?) -- a "Dale" [mumble,mumble, I forget his last name] who built one of the first SBH in Alaska, near Anchorage. Perhaps a search of the List archives will yield a bit more info about how that house faired and maybe, if he's still a member, how it's doing now.
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> I don't imagine that there are very many SBH (fewer than I have digits ?) in the Yukon,  NWT & Nunavut simply because trucking or flying straw bales up there from the cereal grain fields south of the 60th parallel would prohibitively expensive.
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