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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Martin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Fantastic reply and links – I was sceptic about constructing in the tropics – but it is do-able<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Bohdan – aussie architect<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Gsbn [mailto:gsbn-bounces@sustainablesources.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Martin Hammer<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 12 July 2017 2:50 PM<br><b>To:</b> GSBN<br><b>Cc:</b> Jeni Kardinal<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [GSBN] Straw bale building in tropical areas<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Hi Noé (and Bob and all),<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>I wanted to respond to the first email on the subject, but knew it would take time to answer properly. Now that my name has been called out . . .<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Andy Mueller (on this list) and I and others (incl. Tina Therrien, also on this list) built the first SB building in <b>Haiti</b> in 2010-11.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br>We had the same question about building with straw in Haiti that you have about Benin. Haiti’s tropical climate includes periods of heavy rain, including hurricanes, and moderate to high humidity.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br>To answer the question, we installed 29 moisture sensors in the walls in our Haiti SB building. Readings over its first three years showed good performance. Some readings, just before plaster, were over 20%, but over the first 2-1/2 years almost all readings stabilized between 8-14%. (I’ve attached a table of readings from 2010-2013.) Some readings where the bales are in contact with the gravel bag stem wall, including ones I took at end of 2013, rose above 20%, but I feel this is a matter of detailing, not climate. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The building also withstood hurricane Matthew in 2016 with only minor repair needed in an exposed area of plaster at its gable end. However moisture readings have not been taken since then, and it took a hard but not direct hit from the powerful hurricane. More about the “Ti Kay Pay” (small straw house in Kreyol) can be seen at <a href="http://builderswithoutborders.org/">http://builderswithoutborders.org/</a> . A second SB building was constructed in Haiti in 2014 by an Italian organization but I don’t have information about its performance.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>There are other examples of SB buildings in places of high rainfall and/or humidity worth looking at.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Sri Lanka</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>: The first SB building in Sri Lanka was constructed in 2005. I’ve attached a technical paper, <i>Performance of Straw Bale Houses in Tropical Climatic Condition</i>, though it is more about its thermal performance than moisture issues. Here is a link to an article on the handsome building: <a href="http://www.thearchitect.lk/2009/10/a-house-of-straw-2/">http://www.thearchitect.lk/2009/10/a-house-of-straw-2/</a> Piyal Ganepoal was the project manager. You might be able to obtain information about the moisture performance of the building from him via Facebook or Linked-In.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Bali:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> American architect Jeni Kardinal (copied here) designed and oversaw the construction (with husband Frank Hyde) of the first SB building in Bali (Indonesia) in 2014. You can read about and see this beautiful building (and its beautiful compression mould !) in a Last Straw article at <a href="http://thelaststraw.org/straw-bale-in-bali/">http://thelaststraw.org/straw-bale-in-bali/</a> . I’m not sure how it has performed regarding moisture, though when I saw Jeni at the 2016 ISBC in New Zealand I think she indicated so far there were no problems. Maybe she can offer more if she reads this. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Nepal:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> Our BWB team plans to build the first straw bale building in Nepal in October (actually the second if a very temporary building by others is counted). Nepal has a monsoon season and moderate to high humidity. We have full confidence straw bale building is suitable in Nepal’s climate (which varies considerably with elevation) with normal care, given all I have stated above. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>I’ve attached humidity data for the above countries (including Benin) that is useful to compare. Sri Lanka has the highest average annual average humidity (79.8%) of these countries, and Bali and and Nepal have the highest single monthly average (85%). You might want to obtain and compare average rainfall data also.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>I’ll add that SB buildings have existed for many years in the rainy (winter) northwest U.S., and humid (summer) climates in the northeast and southeast U.S. that have performed well, including the famous Burritt Mansion in Alabama, built in 1938.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The bottom line for me is that high rainfall and high humidity by themselves will not cause a straw bale building to fail due to moisture. Good design/detailing, good construction, and reasonable maintenance are what allow all SB buildings to endure, maybe even indefinitely. <u>However</u>, if water enters a wall due to failure of one or more of the three good practices I just mentioned, a SB building in a climate with high rainfall and/or high humidity will be at <u>greater risk</u> of damage or failure.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Best regards.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Martin Hammer</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Martin Hammer, Architect</span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br></span></i></b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Co-director</span></i><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br></span></i><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Builders Without Borders<br></span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Berkeley, CA, USA</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>510-684-4488 (mobile US)</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>skype: martinfhammer</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.builderswithoutborders.org">www.builderswithoutborders.org</a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Gsbn <<a href="mailto:gsbn-bounces@sustainablesources.com">gsbn-bounces@sustainablesources.com</a>> on behalf of Bob Theis <<a href="mailto:bobtheis3@gmail.com">bobtheis3@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Reply-To: </b>GSBN <<a href="mailto:GSBN@SustainableSources.com">GSBN@SustainableSources.com</a>><br><b>Date: </b>Tuesday, July 11, 2017 at 1:18 PM<br><b>To: </b>GSBN <<a href="mailto:GSBN@SustainableSources.com">GSBN@SustainableSources.com</a>><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [GSBN] Straw bale building in tropical areas<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>While working in Haiti I desperately wanted to test ways to create local roof insulation, to alleviate the infra red oven created by a tin roof. My principal concern wasn’t rot, but critters nesting in it. My first notion was to mix the local fibers with quicklime, but I didn't have a chance to field test it. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>But we DO have a 2010 field test of straw bale construction there: Martin Hammer, what do you hear from the little cottage?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Bob<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>On Jul 11, 2017, at 11:49 AM, Derek Stearns Roff <<a href="mailto:derek@unm.edu">derek@unm.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>I don’t have the experience in a very humid, continuously warm tropical environment, to propose a natural building solution. Looking at the current local solutions is always a good place to start. There is also the question of what materials are available. But starting from a place of ignorance about the place, if I wanted to include lots of insulation where mold and moisture are a big concern, then I would consider blown-in fiberglass (NOT fiberglass batts), which has several moisture/mold advantages. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Derek<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><br>Derek Roff<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="mailto:derek@unm.edu">derek@unm.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>On Jul 11, 2017, at 2:25 PM, Noé Solsona <<a href="mailto:noe@anarchitecture.org">noe@anarchitecture.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Hello ballers,<br><br>Am still looking for advices on that topic because I have more request for building with bale in hot and humid climate like Guadeloupe, Benin, Sénégal.<br><br>Many thanks in advance.<br>Noé…<br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Le 29 juin 2017 à 08:17, Noé Solsona <<a href="mailto:noe@anarchitecture.org">noe@anarchitecture.org</a>> a écrit :<br><br>Hello Derek and Bill,<br><br>Thanks for your returns, and advice regarding analyzing the moisture effect.<br>I definitely agree with you Bill, that’s why I wrote to the GSBN to ask how to do and if it’s possible or suitable to build with straw in tropical climate ? Because I don’t want to be dependent and risk the failure of the air conditioning.<br><br>So am very wondering if it’s possible to build with straw ??<br>Would it be better with light straw ?<br><br>Thanks for your advices.<br>Noé...<br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Le 28 juin 2017 à 19:47, Bill Christensen <<a href="mailto:lists@sustainablesources.com">lists@sustainablesources.com</a>> a écrit :<br><br>Hi Noé, et al,<br><br>Over the years I've become a fan of the concept of passive sustainability: specifically, what happens to the building when power and mechanical systems such as air conditioning fail?<br><br>In the wall described below, you're creating a dependence on the air conditioning system, and therefore setting yourself up for potential wall failure if the A/C goes down for an extended period, whether due to something as simple as financial constraints or as extensive as global apocalypse.<br><br>Better to build without such dependencies whenever possible.<br><br>On 6/26/17 4:26 PM, Noé Solsona wrote:<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>But I also hear that it could be possible if we have a vapor block membrane in the outside, and clay plastering in the inside with a good and strong air conditioning system.<br>What do you think ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>-- <br>Bill Christensen<br><a href="http://sustainablesources.com/">http://SustainableSources.com</a><br><a href="http://linkedin.com/in/billc108">http://LinkedIn.com/in/billc108</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>On 6/26/17, 2:26 PM, "Gsbn on behalf of Noé Solsona" <<a href="mailto:gsbn-bounces@sustainablesources.com">gsbn-bounces@sustainablesources.com</a> on behalf of <a href="mailto:noe@anarchitecture.org">noe@anarchitecture.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #B5C4DF 4.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-right:0cm' id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE"><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Hello Balers,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Hope you are all fine in the full season arriving ?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Back from the ESBG in Venise where I made great contact to go and give courses on plastering bales and mechanization of plastering, I got one request for building with bales in Benin.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Did any one of you did such experience or heard of such one in this kind of area’s ?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>I know that I have always heard that we can build with bales all around the world where there is straw, but not in tropical places.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>But I also hear that it could be possible if we have a vapor block membrane in the outside, and clay plastering in the inside with a good and strong air conditioning system.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>What do you think ?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Thank you very much in advance for your brith advices ;)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Noé from France<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>CalyClay<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Noé Solsona <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>ZI des Monts du Matin<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>100 rue des Lauriers<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>26730 EYMEUX<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>France<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>P. : +33 (0) 617 421 050<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>T. : +33 (0) 482 533 110<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>F. : +33 (0) 482 533 111<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="mailto:noe@calyclay.com">noe@calyclay.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.calyclay.com">www.calyclay.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></blockquote></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><blockquote 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