[GSBN] energy efficiency.

[asbn at baubiologie.at]

Dear Rikki
 
The question is energy saving compared to what?
 
We can build straw bale houses in low energy standard (according to the minimum energy standards)
or even as passive house. So the energy saving in this case compared to a conventionally insulated house is zero.
If you build with big bales, this may result (theoretically, without including windows) in half the energy consumption of a passive house.
 
Important is the saving of preliminary energy compared to conventional insulations and the CO2-storage.
According to Werner Schmidt: „Straw Bale Houses need only 10-15% of the preliminary energy of a conventinal house”.
 
Compared to a concrete house a straw bale house needs 50 times less energy in production (source: GrAT, TU Vienna)
 
Liebe Grüße / kind regards
Herbert Gruber
asbn – austrian straw bale network
ph: 0043 2958 83640
mobile: 0043 650 22 16 812
asbn at baubiologie.at
www.baubiologie.at <http://www.baubiologie.at/> 
 <http://www.strawbuilding.eu> www.strawbuilding.eu (ESBA – European Straw Building Association)
 
 
Von: Gsbn [mailto:gsbn-bounces at sustainablesources.com] Im Auftrag von Rikki Nitzkin
Gesendet: Freitag, 12. Mai 2017 13:06
An: Global Straw Building Network
Betreff: [GSBN] energy efficiency.
 
Hi,  
A reporter for a National newspaper here in Spain wants to write an article on SB. 
 
She asks me: what is the % of energy savings in a SB house?
 
Can anyone give me a ball-park figure? o a link to somewhere with reliable data?
 
I usually compare the centimeters of insulation in a conventional house, to that of SB. But I don’t have the data on what the difference is in real savings…
 
thanks, Rikki
 
Rikki Nitzkin
Strawbale Building and Clay Plaster:
education, consulting, and building
www.tallerconco.org
https://www.facebook.com/TallerConCo

tallerconco at gmail.com
(+ 34) 657 335 162


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