[GSBN] SB support for St Paul Architect

[Joyce Coppinger]

One suggestion would be to share information about successful building
projects in the Great Plains region including Wisconsin and Michigan which
would have more similar climactic conditions than Oregon.

I'll send an email to Lucas giving him contact information for at least
three straw-bale builders I know of in these two states that he could
contact. I'll also be sure he knows about the International Straw Bale
Registry listings.

The codes officials might also accept box column method more readily in
terms of structural design so will share that with Lucas, too.


Joyce
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Joyce Coppinger
Managing Editor/Publisher
The Last Straw, the international journal
of strawbale and natural building
PO Box 22706, Lincoln NE 68542-2706
402.483.5135, fax 402.483.5161
<thelaststraw at thelaststraw.org>
www.thelaststraw.org







> Pete Fust has asked me to post a request for ideas and support, to
> help make it possible to build with strawbale in Minneapolis-St Paul.
> Due to well publicized failures of some of the first SB buildings in
> that area, in the mid-ninties (described in The Last Straw), there is
> very strong resistance in the building department to permitting any
> strawbale structures.
> 
> Architect Lucas Alm, lucas at almdesignstudio.com, an adjunct professor
> at the University of Minnesota and eco-designer, hopes to design and
> build with strawbale in the Twin Cities.  At the recent Midwest
> Renewable Energy Fair, he told Pete that although some officials
> recognize that the building failures were the result of poor design
> and construction practices, others continue to oppose strawbale as a
> building material.  Lucas said than one official had asked him for
> performance data on SB structures in Oregon, because "it has the most
> similar climate to St Paul."  Lucas recognizes the inaccuracy of this
> comparison, and is looking for ways to move the dialog into a more
> productive and relevant channel.
> 
> Pete suggests that anyone offering help with this problem can
> probably acquire all the lutefisk that they might desire.
> 
> Derelict
> 
> Derek Roff
> Language Learning Center
> Ortega Hall 129, MSC03-2100
> University of New Mexico
> Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
> 505/277-7368, fax 505/277-3885
> Internet: derek at unm.edu
> 
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