<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><br></div>Yikes, I thought Pete was already among us. I absolutely double-triple second the motion, let's sign him up!<div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Thanks, Caroline!</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Bruce King</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">(415) 987-7271</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">bruce-king.com </div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></div></span><span><img height="27" width="29" src="cid:B4FE2EA5-FDF4-4825-AEAC-3EDCAF8415AB"></span> </div><br><div><div>On Oct 30, 2009, at 8:55 AM, caroline meyer white wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>Dear All!</div> <div> </div> <div>I would like to suggest a new member of the club. </div> <div> </div> <div>Pete Walker, is an engineer, professor and researcher at Bath University, Director of BRE Centre for Innovative Contsruction Materials, where amoungst straw, hemp, lime, dry-stone wall, developing methods for use of timber etc. is being investigated. He has a personal interest in straw bale construction, a facination like the rest of us. Lately he was the coordintor of the Conference NOCMAT (Non Conventional Construction Materials), that Bruce King mentioned on the list a few month ago.</div> <div> </div> <div>After having been a fully hands on person for many years with straw construction, I am now peeking in to the academic side, and being really surpriced by how much interest there is and how poorly we are linked, between these two "worlds",</div> <div> </div> <div>Pete is a very friendly nature, whom I find a key figure in current academic research on straw construction and I find that he could support bridging the more academic knowledge with the practical knowledge on this list. </div> <div><a href="http://www.bath.ac.uk/ace/BRE-Welcome/">http://www.bath.ac.uk/ace/BRE-Welcome/</a><br><br><font face="verdana">Caroline Meyer White <br><br>Friland 23 <br>8410 Rønde <br>tlf + 45 40 76 1980 <br><br></font><font face="verdana"><u><strong><font color="#bf005f"><em>New email which I am changing to:</em> <a href="mailto:hojtpaastraa@gmail.com">hojtpaastraa@gmail.com</a> <br><br></font></strong></u>Kender du: engodsag.dk ? <br><br>Eller paksbab.org ?</font></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br> _______________________________________________<br>GSBN mailing list<br><a href="mailto:GSBN@greenbuilder.com">GSBN@greenbuilder.com</a><br>http://greenbuilder.com/mailman/listinfo/GSBN<br></div><br></div></body></html>