Straw Bale House Construction Resources: Consultants Habib John Gonzalez
Sustainable Works, RR#1, S-4,C-12, Crescent Valley, B.C., Canada V0G 1H0, tel/fax:1-250-359-5095, email: habibg@netidea.com Workshops, seminars, bale wall construction, design and permit application consultations, moisture monitoring, straw sources, stucco spraying. Newsletters The Last Straw
PO Box 22706, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A. 68542-2706
a quarterly, $33/year in Canada, best international information. thelaststraw@thelaststraw.org Books "Design of Straw Bale Buildings" (2006)
by Bruce King, Green Building Press,
ISBN 0-9764911-1-7; the most up to date guide to the architecture and engineering of plastered bale walls.
"The Straw Bale House" (1994)
by Steen, Steen and Bainbridge, Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 0-930031-71-7; good general data, a bit out of date but a useful reference
"Build It With Bales"
Version Two by S.O. MacDonald & Matts Myhrman, ISBN 0-9462821-1-9
a practical 143 page guide to basic load bearing straw bale construction.
"Straw Bale Building" (2000)
Chris Magwood & Peter Mack, New Society Publishers
ISBN 0-86571-403-7; a new Canadian book ideal for the novice builder
"Prestressed Nebraska System" by Linda Chapman & Bob Platts.
A 33 page test report on the "Big Blue Air Bag" method of compressing load bearing bale buildings into super strong multistory structures. Fibrehouse Limited, 200-1st. Avenue, #203 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1S 2G6, tel:613.231.4690, fax:613.231.8475, email: fibre@freenet.carleton.ca
Straw Bale House Plans:
Owen Geiger: http://strawbaleplans.wordpress.com
Web Sites: http://strawhomes.com
http://www.greenbuilder.com
http://ecobuildnetwork.org
http://www.ecobuilding.org
http://www.dcat.net
http://www.thelaststraw.org
http://www.caneloproject.com/
http://cmhc-schl.gc.ca/publications/en/rh-pr/tech/02-155e.pdf
http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/SB-r-us/
http://www.grisb.org
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