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<p class=MsoNormal>Dear GSBN friends,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I'm pleased to report that our straw bale house performed
exceptionally well during the shake table tests at the University of Nevada,
Reno, last Friday. <span lang=EN>The input motion was the Canoga Park
Topanga Canyon record of the 1994 Northridge, California earthquake, Mw
6.7. The house was subjected to increasing levels of seismic shaking,
beginning at 25% of the recorded ground acceleration and increasing at 25%
increments until failure. </span>The house survived 0.82g (0.82 times the
acceleration of gravity), twice the acceleration of the Canoga Park
record. The Geological Survey of Pakistan estimates the 2005 Kashmir
earthquake, Mw 7.6, to have had peak ground accelerations in the range of 0.3
to 0.6g. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I am extremely grateful to EERI, NEES and UNR for their
generous support, and to all the hardworking volunteers who dedicated countless
hours to this project.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>To view the abstract and download a handout please go to <span
style='color:#1F497D'><a
href="http://nees.unr.edu/projects/straw_bale_house.html">http://nees.unr.edu/projects/straw_bale_house.html</a></span>.
See<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><a
href="http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/42035847.html">http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/42035847.html#</a>
for publicity we’ve received regarding the test. <span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>For more
information about PAKSBAB please visit <a href="http://www.paksbab.org/">www.paksbab.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>More videos and test report to come…</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Darcey<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>
Darcey Donovan, P.E., C.E.O.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Pakistan
Straw Bale and Appropriate Building (PAKSBAB)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>P.O.
Box 1083<br>
Truckee, CA 96160 USA<br>
(530) 902-5516 cell<br>
(530) 582-4965 fax<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>0344-9455664
PAK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:ecoengr@sbcglobal.net"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ecoengineering@gmail.com</span></a><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.paksbab.org/"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>www.paksbab.org</span></a><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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