<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Caroline<div><br></div><div>As I understand it Bath University and MODCELL have got a big EU grant to develop their MODCELL strawbale <b>panel</b> system and this has got picked up as "policy" by the Economist</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.bath.ac.uk/ace/research/cicm/low-carbon-materials/eurocell.html">http://www.bath.ac.uk/ace/research/cicm/low-carbon-materials/eurocell.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>The Economist article also refers to hempcrete which has received a much wider acceptance than strawbale panels (as its cheaper!!)</div><div>Bath have also got a big EU grant to explore this</div><div><br></div><div>Tom</div><div><br></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Tom Woolley</div><div><a href="mailto:tom.woolley@btconnect.com">tom.woolley@btconnect.com</a></div><div>80 Church Road</div><div>Crossgar</div><div>Downpatrick</div><div>UK</div><div>BT 30 9HR</div><div>00(44) 28 44 831164</div></div>
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<br><div><div>On 18 Dec 2013, at 16:39, John Swearingen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><div dir="ltr">Martin,<div><br></div><div>I took the reference to "panels" to be an odd use of the word--the rest of the article refers only to bales.</div><div><br></div><div>John</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:36 PM, M. Oehlmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martinoehlmail@gmail.com" target="_blank">martinoehlmail@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Dear Caroline. <br><br>The article is talking about straw panels and not about regular bales. Does anybody know more about details of a potential EU program to achieve this 5% target in 2020?<br>
<br></div>Best wishes,<br><br></div>Martin Oehlmann,<br></div>Portugal<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">2013/12/12 Caroline Meyer White <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hojtpaastraa@gmail.com" target="_blank">hojtpaastraa@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
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If anyonw out there finds a better reference to that EU statement, do let us know...</div>
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