[GSBN] Home Base natural building online library

Fri Nov 9 17:06:50 UTC 2012

Dear Bruce

Well done! how did you manage to get that nice man Obama back into the  
White House? I assume you had some personal influence in the matter.
And even more important Marijuana now legal in Washington and  
Colorado!!  (is that Washington DC?)

Happy to help with your Home Base Library

I can promote it at a European seminar I am running on December 3-5 in  
North Wales  about research into bio based materials
I can try and find a student to compile all the recent research papers  
on bio based materials, hemp lime etc.

Here is the provisional programme for the seminar

14.30

Tuesday December 4

9.30

Black Mountain Insulation

Introduction and welcomes

9.45

Lime Technology Presentation?

10.15

Patrick Daly EPA Irish Hemp Lime Desk Study –  Material Properties and  
Test Data

10.45

Coffee

11.15

Rosanne Walker Dublin Overview of the properties of the   lime-hemp  
composite with pozzolans

11.45

LHOIST??

12.15

Natalie Essig Technical University Munich . Low carbon building in  
Germany

13.00

lunch

14.00

Tom Woolley lessons from the Renewable House programme

14.30

Ceri Loxton Bio insulation Materials TSB Research

15.00

Gary Newman ASBP and other developments

15.30

Andrew Evans Black Mountain

16.00

Factory Visit

18.00

Drinks and Dinner at Hotel

Wednesday December 5

9.30

Neal Holcroft Current Research at  Bath

10.00

Jim Carfrae Plymouth, Analysis of the long term moisture   monitoring  
of straw bale houses in the UK.

10.30

F Collet Rennes Effect of rendering on moisture buffering   of hemp  
concrete

11.00

Coffee

11.30

J. Knol , Hemp Building in Holland

12.00

Myles Yallop hempcrete experiences in UK

Final discussion

Also I am now on the Board of Natureplus and will be at their next  
meeting on December 6 and 7 so can mention it there also
http://www.natureplus.org/en/current-news/home/

I will forward your notice to the UK Alliance for Sustainable Building  
Products www.asbp.org.uk
and to EBUK...(speaking at their annual conference in February)
http://www.ebuk.uk.com/

Natural Building taking off here at last

all the best

Tom

On 9 Nov 2012, at 16:35, Bruce King wrote:

>
>
>
> Greetings, Baleheads --
>
> Some of you may have heard that we had an election here in the USA.   
> Fair to say that, at least for once, America said no to shrieking  
> anger, and yes to compassion.  It's a fine moment.  The shrieking  
> anger is still very much here, of course, but it won't quite be  
> running the show in Washington for a while.
>
> That's not why I write, but I had to start with that little Yippee.
>
> Ecological Building Network is starting the Home Base Library -- a  
> place where we can host and make accessible an online nexus  
> connecting users with the technical information they need.   
> Engineering tests, white papers, field reports, codes, and standards  
> will all be made available either as downloadable PDF documents, or  
> by link to the authors’ websites.  We will also launch a collection  
> of free, wiki-based guides to natural building techniques, and  
> ultimately establish a physical library and conference facility tied  
> to affiliate universities.
>
> I ask for help!  This is a big project, and I'm not yet sure how it  
> will be funded, but right off we need help expanding the Joomla  
> website of EBNet, and then also guidance in setting up a wiki-based  
> forum where, we hope, folks like you might be willing to post up  
> simple guides like "earthen floor basics", "choosing straw bales",  
> "bamboo joinery", etc.
>
> I'll be glad to share more about the concept if you write me offline  
> at  <bruce at ecobuildnetwork.org>.  If you can help with Joomla or  
> wiki, please let me know.  The beginning of the Home Base Library  
> can be seen here -- support for Martin Hammer's straw bale code work.
>
> Thank you from a slightly less annoying US of A,
>
> Bruce King
>
> (415) 987-7271
> Skype: brucekingokok
> Twitter: @brucekinggreen
> http://www.housetalk.us
> http://bruce-king.com/
>
>
>
> Categories
>
> 1. Industrial – by-products of factories and industry
>
> 1a Pozzolans
>
>       slag
>
>       fly ash
>
> 1b Fabrications
>
>       shipping containers
>
> 1c Concrete
>
>       rubble
>
>       cast elements
>
> 1d Fibers
>
>       wood
>
>             “waswood” – castoffs of plywood, OSB, etc
>
>       paper
>
>       straw bales
>
> 1e Polymers
>
>       tires
>
>       plastic bags
>
>
>
> 2. Rural – by-products of site, farms & landscapes  aka “natural  
> building”
>
> 2a Earth
>
>             clay
>
>             natural pozzolans
>
> 2b Fibers
>
>             straw, straw bales
>
>             wood
>
>             bamboo
>
>             hemp
>
>
> 3. Manufactured – new products in or entering the marketplace
>
>
>
>
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Tom Woolley

Rachel Bevan Architects
80 Church Road
Crossgar
Downpatrick
BT30 9HR
tom.woolley at btconnect.com
028 44 830988
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