<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div>Hi Chris and all,</div><div><br></div><div>The recent devastating wildfires in California (last Fall) yielded valuable information about the performance of straw bale buildings in wildfires. Architect, GSBN member and CASBA director David Arkin has been especially involved in documenting this and getting this information out to others. </div><div><br></div><div>I’ve attached two documents. </div><div><br></div><div>One, a recent special report from Fine Home Building about generally how to build to survive wildfires, with the last page about a "straw-bale survival story" (SB house designed by Arkin-Tilt Architects). </div><div>The second, case studies of straw bale houses in the northern California fires. This document is posted on CASBA’s website and downloadable at: <a href="https://www.strawbuilding.org/resources/Documents/Fire-ResistiveStrawbaleWalls.pdf">https://www.strawbuilding.org/resources/Documents/Fire-ResistiveStrawbaleWalls.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>Also well worth referring to is the chapter on Fire authored by Bob Theis and Bruce King in <i>Design of Straw Bale Buildings</i>, and the various fire tests over the years in the US, Germany, the UK and elsewhere.</div><div><br></div><div>Martin Hammer</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On 5/28/18, 8:57 AM, "Gsbn on behalf of Chris Magwood" <<a href="mailto:gsbn-bounces@sustainablesources.com">gsbn-bounces@sustainablesources.com</a> on behalf of <a href="mailto:chris@endeavourcentre.org">chris@endeavourcentre.org</a>> wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>I have a researcher who has asked me for information about case studies </div><div>involving fires in straw bale houses. Has any kind of summary report </div><div>ever been done? Anybody have any specific cases they could point toward?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Chris Magwood</div><div>Director, Endeavour Centre</div><div>www.endeavourcentre.org</div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Gsbn mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:Gsbn@sustainablesources.com">Gsbn@sustainablesources.com</a></div><div><a href="http://sustainablesources.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/gsbn">http://sustainablesources.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/gsbn</a></div><div><br></div></blockquote></body></html>