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<DIV>Hi Martin – Could I also please have a copy of the information Martin sent
out to Graeme – the light straw clay codes/guidelines and also the guidelines
mentioned in your previous email of 12th of May below. </DIV>
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<DIV>Bruce – when you find your survey and review of the earthen building
standards and world codes I would love a copy please. </DIV>
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<DIV>Does anyone know or could anyone advise of the contact details in Austria
for the developers of the straw bale screw? I will be visiting Germany on the
26th of May and would like to pay them a visit to discuss how to get the straw
bale screw into Australia.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Just to update you all on what has been happening in this part of the world
– we are nearly finished our education centre and we wish to encourage green
builders of any type to utilise our facilities to host their courses and
workshops. Drawing inspiration from what has been happening with Earthbuilding
in New Zealand and their progressive and inclusive attitude towards all natural
builders we also hope to encourage cooperation between all natural green
building modalities. So please, check out our Strawtec facebook page and like
us, have a look at our pictures and help us get the word out there of our new
education centre facilities!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Lastly, I would like to advise that James Henderson from Clayworks should
become a GSBN member. He has worked with Bill and Athena Steen and has run a
number of workshops both with me and independently. If anyone can support this
call it would be appreciated. James will be going back to America to live and
work there and we wish him all the best getting back on his feet there. If you
have not yet seen it, James has recently written a rendering book which I highly
recommend titled “Earth Render – The art of clay plaster, render and paints”.
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<DIV>Thank you all,</DIV>
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<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000">Regards<BR><BR>Frank
Thomas<BR><BR>Strawtec<BR>ABN:210 3009 6559 Builder Lic: 115643C<BR>Ph: +61 (0)
2 44435282 Mobile: +61 (0) 408415806<BR>e-mail: strawbales@bigpond.com<BR>web:
www.strawtec.com.au<BR>fb: www.facebook.com/strawbales</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=bruce@ecobuildnetwork.org
href="mailto:bruce@ecobuildnetwork.org">Bruce EBNet</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, May 12, 2014 9:49 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=GSBN@sustainablesources.com
href="mailto:GSBN@sustainablesources.com">Global Straw Building Network</A>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [GSBN] Data base of approved natural building
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<DIV> </DIV>Today I found & sent to Andy Horn the paper I did six years
ago reviewing all the earthen codes and standards -- a preparatory phase for
then rewriting the ASTM standard.
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<DIV>I anyone else wants a copy, just give me a holler.<BR>
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<DIV>On May 11, 2014, at 3:12 PM, Graeme North <<A
href="mailto:graeme@ecodesign.co.nz">graeme@ecodesign.co.nz</A>>
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Martin
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<DIV>would you mind sending me the light straw clay codes -guidelines too
please?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>thanks </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Graeme <BR>
<DIV>
<DIV>On 12/05/2014, at 2:22 AM, martin hammer <<A
href="mailto:mfhammer@pacbell.net">mfhammer@pacbell.net</A>>
wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Hi Andy,<BR><BR>In a
separate e-mail I will send you the following:<BR><BR></SPAN></FONT>
<UL>
<LI><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Strawbale Construction
appendix, as approved for the 2015 International Residential Code
</SPAN></FONT>
<LI><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Light Straw-Clay
appendix, as approved for the 2015 International Residential Code
</SPAN></FONT>
<LI><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Adobe section of the
2012 International Building Code (Section 2109.3) </SPAN></FONT>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><FONT
face="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">Appendix Chapter 71- Earthen Material
Structures – Tucson / Pima County, Arizona </FONT></SPAN>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><FONT
face="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">Clay Straw Guidelines – State of New
Mexico </FONT></SPAN>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><FONT
face="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">Light Straw Clay Code – State of Oregon
</FONT></SPAN>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><FONT
face="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">Light Straw Clay Code – City of Porland,
Oregon<BR></FONT></SPAN></LI></UL><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><FONT
face="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial"><BR>I think you have ASTM E2392 / E2392M –
Standard Guide for Design of Earthen Wall Building Systems (that David
Eisenberg initiated around 2001, and Bruce King lead the revision of in
2010)<BR><BR>I also have 12 US Straw Bale codes (State, County or City), the
Belarus SB Code, the New Zealand SB BRANZ Bulletin, the Denmark Halmhuse
document (mostly in Danish) which I understand is a de facto code<BR><BR>I
also have a few codes or code related documents on bamboo.<BR><BR>As far as
I know, most if not all of the above codes or official guidelines are in
effect (or in the case of the first three are, or will soon be, in the
“International” model codes)<BR><BR>So I will e-mail you the bullet point
items, and if requested I can do the same for any other item I mentioned
(except possibly the ASTM Standard which strictly speaking is not
transferable).<BR><BR>If anyone else is interested in any of the above,
please let me know.<BR><BR><BR>Note that today is Mother’s Day (at least in
the US) (Happy Mother’s Day everyone!) and Bruce may have a full day planned
with his lovely wife Sarah, which could affect his ability to respond before
your meeting tomorrow. I have a full day planned for my lovely wife, .
. . but she’s not awake yet (!).<BR><BR>Best of luck with your
meeting.<BR><BR><BR>Martin (is it Code in here, or is it me?)
Hammer<BR><BR></FONT><FONT face=Arial><BR><BR><BR>On 5/11/14 6:07 AM, "Andy
Horn" <<A
href="x-msg://63/andy@ecodesignarchitects.co.za">andy@ecodesignarchitects.co.za</A>>
wrote:<BR><BR></FONT></SPAN>
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><FONT color=#1f497d><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Dear Bruce<BR>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.<BR> <BR>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.<BR> <BR>Thanks Graeme for your update about the New Zealand codes
and their technical committee. <BR> <BR>Any other inputs are most
welcome.<BR> <BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#1f497d><FONT
size=5><FONT face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Kind regards,<BR>Andy
Horn<BR> <BR><SPAN><image.gif></SPAN><BR> <BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
size=4><FONT face="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><B>From:</B> <A
href="x-msg://63/GSBN-bounces@sustainablesources.com">GSBN-bounces@sustainablesources.com</A>
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<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<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR>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.<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">More
soon,<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
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face="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial"><BR>Thanks,<BR></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><BR></FONT><FONT
face="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial"><BR></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><BR></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">Bruce King,
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2:10 PM, Graeme North <<A
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wrote:<BR><BR><BR> <BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">On 13/03/2014, at
2:15 AM, Andy Horn <<A
href="x-msg://63/andy@ecodesignarchitects.co.za">andy@ecodesignarchitects.co.za</A>>
wrote:<BR><BR><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#1f497d><FONT
face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Hi
all<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#1f497d><FONT
size=5><FONT face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">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.<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#1f497d><FONT
size=5><FONT face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=#1f497d><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">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.<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#1f497d><FONT
size=5><FONT face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=#1f497d><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">South Africa is part of a process amongst SADC -
The Southern Africa Development Countries - to harmonize its various
standards between its trading
partners.<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#1f497d><FONT
size=5><FONT face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=#1f497d><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">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. <BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=#1f497d><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">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.<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#1f497d><FONT
size=5><FONT face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=#1f497d><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">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:<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#1f497d><FONT
size=5><FONT face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=#1f497d><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">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?<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#1f497d><FONT
size=5><FONT face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">So far I know
of:<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#1f497d><FONT
size=5><FONT face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">- the New Zealand Earth building codes
<I>(NZS4297-1998, NZS4298-1998, & NZS4299-1998,
)<BR></I></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#1f497d><FONT
size=5><FONT face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">- the USA Tucson Pima County earth building
code <I>(1997 Uniform Administrative Code Amendment for Earthen
Material and Straw Bale
Structures)<BR></I></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#1f497d><FONT
size=5><FONT face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I>Tucson/Pima County, Arizona "APPENDIX CHAPTER
71 - EARTHEN MATERIAL
STRUCTURES”)<BR></I></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#1f497d><FONT
size=5><FONT face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">- the German earth building codes: <I>National
Material Code for Prefabricated Earth Products DIN 18945 till -47 (blocks,
masonry mortar, plaster)<BR></I></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=#1f497d><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=#1f497d><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">(I
still need to investigate and contact Craterre-EAG in this regard and
perhaps UNESCO)<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#1f497d><FONT
size=5><FONT face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=#1f497d><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">QUESTION 2: What international or foreign national
technical committee’s working in this field are
there?<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR>Earth Building
Standards <BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Standards New Zealand
Committee BD/083 is currently revising the three earth buildings
standards. (Engineering, Materials and Workmanship, and Deemed to
Comply)<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Currently they cover
mud brick, pressed earth brick, and rammed earth with a nod to poured
earth, cob, earth plasters and earth floors.
<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">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.<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">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<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#1f497d><FONT
face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=#1f497d><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=#1f497d><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">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. <BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=#1f497d><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=#1f497d><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">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....<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=#1f497d><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=#1f497d><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">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.<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=#1f497d><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=#1f497d><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Perhaps to stream line things in your responses
you can add a prefix:<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=#1f497d><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">1
- Earth building codes<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=#1f497d><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">2
- Natural building Technical code committees
<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#1f497d><FONT
size=5><FONT face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">3 - Other natural building
code<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#1f497d><FONT
size=5><FONT face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=#1f497d><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I
am looking forward to your many - I hope - inputs and once I have compiled
as complete a list as possible, I will email it back for
everyone.<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#1f497d><FONT
size=5><FONT face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=#1f497d><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Many thanks<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=#1f497d><FONT size=5><FONT
face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
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