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    Straw Bale Walkabout

    ByRichard Dormandy 1 June 20221 June 2022

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    Airtigntness and Why it Matters

    ByDavid Jowsey 17 February 202117 February 2021

    The past year has been a period of slow but steady activity on our Straw Bales project with a very small number of volunteers. One of several aspects we’ve been working on is Airtightness, and we’ve just released 4 short films on the subject:

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    Conventional Build Carbon Footprint: 400 tonnes. Our Build: MINUS 479 tonnes.

    ByRichard Dormandy 6 February 202017 February 2021

    An average 85m2 UK home of brick and concrete is said to release 68 tonnes CO2 in construction. For a building like ours of 643m2, we would expect to release something like 450 tonnes with conventional construction. Using Alternative Construction the picture is more like this (from the ground up): Crushed Concrete MOT Type-1:  Waste…

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    Straw Bale Visualisation

    ByDavid Jowsey 26 August 201926 August 2019

    Watch our inspiring new film made by our volunteer builder, Javier Rodriguez Sanchez. If you’d like to get involved, contact us

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    straw bales has started

    ByDavid Jowsey 22 September 201820 January 2019

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