[GSBN] Seeking Reviewers for Strawbale Building Tutorial

[John Swearingen]

Hi Marty,
I could review...
John


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 9:11 PM, martin hammer <mfhammer at pacbell.net> wrote:

>  Dear GSBN members,
>
> My colleague Dmitry Ozeryansky and I are seeking as many as three
> individuals to review a chapter of a Strawbale Building Tutorial we are
> co-authoring for the Earthquake Engineering and Research Institute (EERI)
> and the World Housing Encyclopedia (WHE).  We have almost completed a draft
> of Chapter 2, a “how to” guide on building a small load-bearing strawbale
> house. It is primarily focused on seismically active regions of the
> developing world, but could have broader application as well.
>
> We plan to e-mail the 27-page Chapter 2 for review within two weeks.
>  Deadline for comments will be 4 weeks from the date it is e-mailed.  A few
> members of the GSBN are already reviewers (Mark Aschheim, Darcey Donovan,
> Derek Roff, possibly Kelly Lerner) (Andy Mueller gave a focused review on
> earthen plasters).  Chapters 1 (Introduction to SB Construction) and
> Chapter 3 (Engineering Principles) have already been reviewed.
>
> We are seeking individuals with strong backgrounds in one or more of the
> following: strawbale construction, engineering (especially seismic),
> building in developing countries, tutorial writing.  All of you are experts
> in strawbale construction.  We’re especially interested in individuals with
> experience designing and building in developing countries (not necessarily
> strawbale), and who live and practice outside the US (though I won’t
> exclude my fellow Americans).
>
> This is a volunteer review, but reviewers names would be listed in the
> on-line, free download Tutorial.  You can see other tutorials on the WHE
> webpage:
>
> http://www.world-housing.net/tutorials
>
> By the way, there is also an incredible array of reports on various
> housing typologies from all over the world on a page of the same website:
>
> http://www.world-housing.net/housing-reports
>
> Is this something anyone is interested in and able to do in the stated
> time frame?  Your review can be as thorough as your available time allows.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Martin Hammer and Dmitry Ozeryansky
>
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>
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