Ontario Straw Bale Building Coalition

With the world economy slowing, many new building projects have been postponed or canceled. By necessity, the focus in the sustainable building world will shift to existing buildings, communities and sites. There exists a great opportunity to reduce our ecological footprint by improving what we have. By upgrading the underperforming built environment that we already inhabit, [Continue reading...]

John Straube, über award-winning Big Head in the building science world has published an overview of the science behind straw bale buildings over at BuildingScience.com.

John shares the Big Head award with Bruce King, editor of the definitive handbook of technical strawbale design, Design of Strawbale Buildings, available from Green Building Press.

Bruce King and John [Continue reading...]

The OSBBC web site is being upgraded from a flat HTML site to a dynamic database-driven site, with a new address, www.osbbc.ca. We’re still moving over pages and fixing things up. During the move the old version of the web site is still available at old.strawbalebuilding.ca. Once the move is complete the old version [Continue reading...]