[GSBN] insulation vaue of straw bales

Sun Apr 10 23:57:55 UTC 2016

Hi Bruce,

Hope you had a fantastic bit of traveling in NZ and are enjoying a fantastic spring. I am frantically trying to finish rendering my house and get ready to leave for the US.

I have been meaning to follow up with you ever since the conference to follow up on a Stakblock idea. Can you pass on the contact for the guys that are working on this? I use to have them, but can’t find it now. There is some potential funding here in Victoria that might be of interest. I personally would love to see this or something like this developed as I just can’t see widespread adoption of building with regular bales (and it is getting harder and harder to even get small bales).

Cheers,
Enga

Enga Lokey
10 Lake Rd
PO Box 917
Natimuk 3409
Australia
0468 359 556

enga at thelokeys.net

> On 11 Apr 2016, at 9:37 am, Bruce King <bruce at ecobuildnetwork.org> wrote:
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> G’Day, GSBN —
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> John Glassford wrote to me asking for some technical reports, in particular the thermal study done at Oak Ridge National Laboratories about 15 years ago.  I can’t find an electronic copy on my hard drive, but hope that one of you do and will load it up on the BuildWell Source here: http://buildwelllibrary.org/building-materials/fibers/straw/strawbale <http://buildwelllibrary.org/building-materials/fibers/straw/strawbale>
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> We’ve all been in John’s position, and will again:  when the technical stuff you mostly don’t care about or need you suddenly do, and in those moments we all need an easy, accessible place to find it.  That’s why we have the Source <http://buildwelllibrary.org/>   But it is a user based, user-reviewed resource; we count on you to take a moment and upload whatever useful documents you may have so that everybody forevermore all have benefit of them.
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> Please do take a moment to share whatever geeky jewells you may have — on straw, straw-clay, earthen building, bamboo, or any other part of natural building.  Someone someday will be very grateful that you did, but you can enjoy the warm satisfaction of your own selfless generosity right away!
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> cheers,
> 
> Bruce King
> (415) 987-7271
> bruce at bruce-king.com <mailto:bruce at bruce-king.com>
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>> On Apr 7, 2016, at 7:23 PM, John Glassford <jacksflat at gmail.com <mailto:jacksflat at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> G ' day Bruce
>> 
>> Trust that you have fully recovered from your visit to the Land of the Long White Cloud.
>> 
>> I am copying this to one of our valued clients John Beurle who is building an energy rated SITUPS home in Victoria.
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>> John needs some of the latest data on the R value of straw bale walls.  I only have the old work that was done  by Joe McCabe and Nehemiah Stone.
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>> John is going for a 9 star rated wall system for the Victorian Government.
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>> If you are able to help us it would be very much appreciated mate.
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>> Remember our down under rating systems are a wee bit different to yours in the USA.
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>> I am working on walls 350 mm thick i.e. bales on edge as well as allowing for render on the external walls at least using lime render 45 mm thick.
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>> Thanks mate. 
>> 
>> Kind regards
>> Susan and John Glassford
>> Huff 'n' Puff Constructions
>> http://www.glassford.com.au <http://www.glassford.com.au/>
>> 61 2 6927 6027
>> In Australia (02) 6927 6027
>> Mobile 0412 11 61 57
>> 
>> 
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