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color:#1F497D'>Dear Bruce<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Sorry to push you, but please will you send that survey of
earthen building standards and codes that you said you did about 6 years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>I am busy agitating the powers that be – and meet with a
group of stakeholders tomorrow including our Standards Bureau - and so really need
as much info as I can get my hands on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Thanks Graeme for your update about the New Zealand codes and
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color:#1F497D'>Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Andy Horn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> GSBN-bounces@sustainablesources.com
[mailto:GSBN-bounces@sustainablesources.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Bruce EBNet<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 12 March 2014 11:17 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Global Straw Building Network<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [GSBN] Data base of approved natural building codes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal> I did a complete survey and review, about 6 years ago,
of earthen building standards and codes around the world. Be glad to
share it, but am super-swamped for the next week and It will take a bit of
digging to find. Since then, I know of several efforts to develop cob
standards, not to mention Martin Hammer et al recently bringing straw bale into
the International Building Code.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Mar 12, 2014, at 2:10 PM, Graeme North <<a
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>While this is not specifically about straw bale building, my
question ultimately will relate back to getting a straw bale code along with
other natural building codes established for the Southern part of Africa.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I am trying to motivate our South African standards body to look
at standards for earthen buildings at the moment, of which incredibly despite
numerous earthen buildings (mostly informal or traditional), we don’t
have any. As one might guess amongst other reasons the cement, steel and brick
industries are still very much in control in this country.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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color:#1F497D'>South Africa is part of a process amongst SADC - The Southern
Africa Development Countries - to harmonize its various standards between its
trading partners.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Zimbabwe have a rammed earth building code and this standard,
after much effort, last April has been adopted though this
“SADCSTAN” process for all member states. This was after 8 out of
the 10 voting countries voted in favour of adopting the standard. So we now
have an official standard (SADCSTAN/TC1 SC5-001 SAZ724 Standard Code of
Practice for Rammed Earth Structures ) for the SADC region that is meant to be
published in each member state by each of its various standards bodies. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Unfortunately despite heavy lobbying by interested people, our
standards board – SABS – representing South Africa did not vote in
favour of the code and are now refusing to publish the standard locally. As
such I have started a process to try and get them to rethink their position.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>As part of the detailed motivation form that I have to fill out
as the official route to get them to look at adopting a standard, I am being
asked:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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color:#1F497D'>QUESTION 1: What other (earth) building codes, regional or
national or international – that include rammed earth – besides our
Zimbabwe rammed earth building code are there?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>So far I know of:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>- the New Zealand Earth building codes<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><i>(NZS4297-1998, NZS4298-1998, &
NZS4299-1998, )</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>- the USA Tucson Pima County earth building code <i>(1997
Uniform Administrative Code Amendment for Earthen Material and Straw Bale
Structures)</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> Tucson/Pima County, Arizona "APPENDIX CHAPTER 71 -
EARTHEN MATERIAL STRUCTURES”)</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>- the German earth building codes:<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><i>National Material Code for
Prefabricated Earth Products DIN 18945 till -47 (blocks, masonry mortar,
plaster)</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>(I still need to investigate and contact Craterre-EAG in this
regard and perhaps UNESCO)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>QUESTION 2: What international or foreign national technical
committee’s working in this field are there?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Standards New Zealand Committee BD/083 is currently revising
the three earth buildings standards. (Engineering, Materials and Workmanship,
and Deemed to Comply)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Currently they cover mud brick, pressed earth brick, and
rammed earth with a nod to poured earth, cob, earth plasters and earth
floors. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>They will now fully cover mud brick/adobe, cob, rammed
earth, pressed earth brick, poured earth, internal earth brick veneers, earth
floors and earth plasters.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>The range of densities of earthen materials they will now
include will be between 800 and 2000 kg/cub.m, with walls between 280 and 500mm
thick<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Getting our SABS to adopt the rammed earth code would be a major
foot in the door for us to get our corporate minded authorities to re-consider
earth and other natural materials as a viable and sustainable way to build. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>However, this would I believe just be the start of a drive to
push for codes for all natural building and appropriate technology type
codes... including the ICC’s straw bale and light straw clay standard of
course as well as others like cob, adobe, wattle and daub, earth bag, sandbag,
urbanite, stone, bamboo, bottle walls, cordwood, earthen plasters etc. So....</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>QUESTION 3: In addition to codes on rammed earth, I would be
interested in knowing about any other natural building codes that may
exist.....so please send any links or info you know of that you think will be
of help.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Perhaps to stream line things in your responses you can add a
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>1 - Earth building codes</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>2 - Natural building Technical code committees </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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color:#1F497D'>3 - Other natural building code</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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