[GSBN] How many strawbale buildings in the USA?

[Frank Thomas]

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From: Misha Rauchwerger 
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2013 12:09 AM
To: Global Straw Building Network 
Subject: Re: [GSBN] How many strawbale buildings in the USA?

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.
  >
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  > Frank Tettemer
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