[GSBN] Seeking Reviewers for Strawbale Building Tutorial

[martin hammer]

Hello Nehemiah,

No one is enlisted per se.  A number of people were invited, and a core
review committee was established when we began the tutorial some time ago.
Recently I put out an open invitation to the GSBN.  It is a volunteer
review, and I didn¹t hear from Bruce, so I assume he has his hands full
already.  We do have a good review team, including the few we just added
from the GSBN (Andre de Bouter, Graeme North, Chris Magwood, Jeff Ruppert).

Martin


On 10/7/13 7:54 PM, "StoneAndStraw" <stoneandstraw at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Martin,
> Did you enlist Bruce King to review?
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Sep 20, 2013, at 9:11 PM, martin hammer <mfhammer at pacbell.net> wrote:
> 
>> Seeking Reviewers for Strawbale Building Tutorial 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
>> ³how to² 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.  We¹re 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 won¹t 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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