<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi all, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Since Catarina is not a member yet, she has asked me to re-send the below email.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><p class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span class="m_3371720354790750850gmail-">Hello everybody, </span></p><p class="m_3371720354790750850gmail-" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span class="m_3371720354790750850gmail-">we just did some official tests in Portugal for rice strawbale as building material and I would like to know if any of you have results for the Water Vapour Diffusion resistance factor of Rice strawbales? </span></p><p class="m_3371720354790750850gmail-" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span class="">The water vapour diffusion resistance factor (μ) we achieved is 5,47.</span></p><p class="m_3371720354790750850gmail-" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span class="">It seems higher compared to wheat straw. Any comments? You got similar values? </span></p><p class="m_3371720354790750850gmail-" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span class="">Thanks, greetings </span></p><p class="m_3371720354790750850gmail-" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span class="">Catarina</span></p><div class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:catarinapinto@terrapalha.com" class="">catarinapinto@terrapalha.com</a> </span></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sincerely, Rikki<br class=""><div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>