Hi Joyce,<div><br></div><div>That was designed by <span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:15px"> Lucchesi and Galati Architects, primarily Jeff Roberts.  Rick Green was the bale builder, and did rammed earth, also.  We bid on it, but ultimately turned it down.  It looked like a nice project, though.</span></div>


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</span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Joyce Coppinger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jc10508@windstream.net" target="_blank">jc10508@windstream.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">


Anyone know who the architect and/or builder for this project was?<br>
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Joyce<br>
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There's a LEED platinum straw bale cultural center in Las Vegas of all<br>
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<a href="http://www.springspreserve.org/about/leed_elements.html" target="_blank">http://www.springspreserve.org/about/leed_elements.html</a><br>
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But I've not heard of a LEED for Homes certification that's straw bale...<br>
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