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    <p>Hi Doug,</p>
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    <p>Here's a detail from our last straw-cell project. Hope it's
      helpful to you. You can contact me off list if you want to discuss
      it.</p>
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    <p>Cheers,</p>
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    <p>Chris<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2018-05-14 11:03 AM, douglas nichols
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        <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I'm consulting with a
          non-profit (<a href="http://www.yinnovations.org/"
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          build an affordable straw home for a low income family.  Their
          current engineering was provided by someone unfamiliar with
          straw bale building and is coming up pretty short of being a
          low carbon, sustainable, or natural design.  So we are moving
          to a straw cell design to help ease any engineering and
          building official concerns about the straw bale part.  My
          question is-- does anyone have a good straw cell wall detail
          drawing they can point me to or donate to the effort?</p>
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                    2903 North Jefferson Street 2903 North Jefferson
                    Street is a 4500 square foot vacant lot in the city
                    of Wilmington, where Y Innovations will be
                    completing a 630 square foot naturally-built straw
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        Thanks<br>
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Chris Magwood
Director, Endeavour Centre
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