<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hey Doug<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have a couple of buildings we have done in the past couple of years. Both are multi-story and designed for pretty heavy snow loads (100psf), but I could share the structural plans with you and your engineer if you think it would help. Just get in touch with me directly.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,<br class=""><div class="">
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</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">I'm consulting with a non-profit (<a href="http://www.yinnovations.org/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk322821" previewremoved="true">http://www.yinnovations.org/</a>) to 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
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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 bale home in 2018.</div>
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