[GSBN] new members

bill christensen billc at greenbuilder.com
Thu Jan 6 19:23:41 UTC 2011


Looks like they got enough seconds.  Now I'll need their email addresses.
You can send them off list.



On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:56 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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