<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Bruce,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hope you had a fantastic bit of traveling in NZ and are enjoying a fantastic spring. I am frantically trying to finish rendering my house and get ready to leave for the US.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have been meaning to follow up with you ever since the conference to follow up on a Stakblock idea. Can you pass on the contact for the guys that are working on this? I use to have them, but can’t find it now. There is some potential funding here in Victoria that might be of interest. I personally would love to see this or something like this developed as I just can’t see widespread adoption of building with regular bales (and it is getting harder and harder to even get small bales).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Enga</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; 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 style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; 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 style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div class="">Enga Lokey</div><div class="">10 Lake Rd</div><div class="">PO Box 917</div><div class="">Natimuk 3409</div><div class="">Australia</div></div></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">0468 359 556</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; 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 style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; 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 style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="mailto:enga@thelokeys.net" class="">enga@thelokeys.net</a></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 11 Apr 2016, at 9:37 am, Bruce King <<a href="mailto:bruce@ecobuildnetwork.org" class="">bruce@ecobuildnetwork.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">G’Day, GSBN —</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">John Glassford wrote to me asking for some technical reports, in particular the thermal study done at Oak Ridge National Laboratories about 15 years ago. I can’t find an electronic copy on my hard drive, but hope that one of you do and will load it up on the BuildWell Source here: <a href="http://buildwelllibrary.org/building-materials/fibers/straw/strawbale" class="">http://buildwelllibrary.org/building-materials/fibers/straw/strawbale</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We’ve all been in John’s position, and will again: when the technical stuff you mostly don’t care about or need you suddenly do, and in those moments we all need an easy, accessible place to find it. That’s why we have the <a href="http://buildwelllibrary.org/" class="">Source</a> But it is a user based, user-reviewed resource; we count on you to take a moment and upload whatever useful documents you may have so that everybody forevermore all have benefit of them.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please do take a moment to share whatever geeky jewells you may have — on straw, straw-clay, earthen building, bamboo, or any other part of natural building. Someone someday will be very grateful that you did, but you can enjoy the warm satisfaction of your own selfless generosity right away!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">cheers,</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 7, 2016, at 7:23 PM, John Glassford <<a href="mailto:jacksflat@gmail.com" class="">jacksflat@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">G ' day Bruce</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Trust that you have fully recovered from your visit to the Land of the Long White Cloud.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I am copying this to one of our valued clients John Beurle who is building an energy rated SITUPS home in Victoria.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">John needs some of the latest data on the R value of straw bale walls. I only have the old work that was done by Joe McCabe and Nehemiah Stone.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">John is going for a 9 star rated wall system for the Victorian Government.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">If you are able to help us it would be very much appreciated mate.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Remember our down under rating systems are a wee bit different to yours in the USA.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I am working on walls 350 mm thick i.e. bales on edge as well as allowing for render on the external walls at least using lime render 45 mm thick.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks mate. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class="">Kind regards<br class="">Susan and John Glassford<br class="">Huff 'n' Puff Constructions<br class=""><a href="http://www.glassford.com.au/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.glassford.com.au</a><br class="">61 2 6927 6027<br class="">In Australia (02) 6927 6027</font><div class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class="">Mobile 0412 11 61 57</font></div><div class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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