[GSBN] new members

[John Swearingen]

Thirds!  ....or let's have a Fifth!

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Tim Owen-Kennedy <timok33 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good on you Bruce for staying up, and following through on these
> nominations, but 3am? you must have had more than just an extra drink for
> me.
>
> We had a great time yesterday applying our collective experience and
> expertise to the challenges in Haiti and hopefully our work will be
> applicable around the world. And as often comes up when we are in these
> scenarios we reflected on the value and joy it is to be part of the GSBN. A
> great example of an online version.
>
> I'm an obvious second (fourth?) for these two, since it was my task to
> nominate in case it slipped the King's mind. I wanted to add that I have
> experienced both as extremely insightful and frugal both as engineers and as
> participants in a collective process. Both of which make them great
> engineers for ecological buildings and wonderful additions to this community
> in my book.
>
> Tim "working on being more insightful and frugal" O-K
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Bruce King <bruce at ecobuildnetwork.org>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Baleheads --
>>
>> A small network of folks has been at work adapting natural building
>> technologies to Haiti, and it suddenly made us aware that two of us are not
>> but should be on this list.  I want to vigorously put forth a nomination
>> for:
>>
>> *Mark Aschheim*, professor of structural engineering at Santa Clara
>> University.  Many of Marks students are at work testing bamboo joinery for
>> us, and getting an education in earthen construction, straw bale, and the
>> weird but irresistible humor of folks like us.  Mark did a lot of the heavy
>> lifting 10 years ago when we (EBNet) conducted seismic tests of straw bale
>> walls.
>>
>> *Henri Mannik* is both an architect and structural engineer, was working
>> with David Mar back during the EBNet test program, and is now out on his own
>> doing lots of natural buildings.  He engineered the first straw bale
>> building in Haiti, now nearing completion.
>>
>> Do I hear seconds?
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>
>> Bruce King, PE
>> Director of EBNet
>> Ecological Building Network
>> *the art and science of building well*
>> bruce at ecobuildnetwork.org
>> PO Box 6397
>> San Rafael, CA 94903 USA
>> (415) 987-7271
>> follow us on Twitter: @EBNetwork
>>
>>
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