Learn with natural building tutors
Straw bale building
Clay plastering
Lime plastering
➡️ Melbourne, Derby
📆 17–19 April
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➡️ Todmorden
📆 19–21 June
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➡️ Brighton
📆 10–12 July
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#skills
Do insurers like sustainable builds?! Nobody wants to get to the end of a project and then struggle to get their new home insured. So find out how the whole game works with Dr. James Glockling.
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#SelfBuild #Housing #NewHome
🌾 Accessible by Nature webinar
📊 14 months of monitored data from a lived-in straw bale home
📅 10th March
🕕 6 – 7.30pm
🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/accessible...
#strawbuilding #strawbale #buildingperformance #naturalmaterials #lowcarbonconstruction
🌿 @asbpuk.bsky.social Material Mornings launches with a session on Natural Fibre Insulation.
📅 Thu 12th Feb 2026, 11:00 - 12:00, online.
🧰 Live, surgery-style discussion.
🔗 asbp.org.uk/events/material-mornings-nfi
#biobasedmaterials #naturalbuilding #insulation #construction
🏆 Agreka Build, a Straw Building UK member, has been recognised by @innovateuk.bsky.social for work on resource-efficient construction.
🌾 A clear sign that biobased solutions are moving further into the mainstream.
www.agrekabuild.com
#biobasedmaterials #innovationuk
📗 Build It’s December issue includes a feature on straw and low-impact construction
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💻 gb.readly.com/magazines/bu...
#strawconstruction #biobasedmaterials
General sales now open for ASBP’s 2026 Healthy Buildings Conference!
Book now to avoid disappointment.
Only a limited number of tickets are available.
@asbpuk.bsky.social
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This week in Barcelona: Europe’s leading straw builders, designers + manufacturers meet for #ESBG2025
🌾 Exciting days ahead!
#ESBG2025 #Strawbale #BiobasedConstruction
www.linkedin.com/posts/cypren...
We welcome Clara Koehler to #SBUK2025 🎉
Her talk on biobased materials + net zero shows how you can cut carbon & also why wider changes in how we build are essential.
📅 4th Nov | NSBRC, Swindon
➡ Get your early bird tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-...
#SBUK2025 #biophilia
🌾 Wheat or rice?
🎤 Dr Judith Thornton asks what straw we should build with and why it matters.
Early bird tickets are available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-...
#SBUK2025 @ukceh.bsky.social
In-person events/training by our Members asbp.org.uk/partner-memb...
28-29 Aug 2025. A 2-day course on lime by Ty-Mawr, Wales.
28 Aug 2025. Ask the Ecological Building Systems experts, Swindon.
3-7 Sept 2025. A @schoolofnatbuild.bsky.social 5-day practical straw bale building course in Devon.
🌿 Jonathan Davies joins #SBUK2025 with High Performance, Low Carbon: Parc y Rhodyn, the UK’s first off-grid Passivhaus, built with Huff & Puff Construction (UK) 🏡
Early bird tickets are available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-...
#strawbuilding #biophilia
📢 Paul Crosby joins #SBUK2025!
🎤 Natural Architecture - Designing to a natural scale, specifying with nature in mind in heritage.
📅 4th November 2025
🎟 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-...
#SBUK2025 #biophilia #naturalarchitecture #heritagearchitecture #strawbuilding #lowcarbonconstruction
🌾 80% energy savings with straw
META2020 retrofit the University of Burgos into an nZEB.
Visit Spain and hear META2020’s story and, many speakers at #ESBG2025
esbg2025.casasdepaja.org
#ESBA #biobased #retrofit
📊 14 months of IEQ data in a straw bale home in England.
🌬️ No MVHR. No overheating.
Read the paper: sciexplor.com/articles/jbd...
👏 Congrats Janice A. Foster, Filbert Musau, Barbara Jones & Sam Foster
#sbuk #ieq #naturalbuilding
🌾 Tangent alert: straw is not a waste product - it's a co-product.
📊 That difference matters for carbon accounting.
🧱 We explore it at the SBUK Symposium 2025.
🎟️ Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-...
#sbuk2025 #biophilia #biobasedmaterials
UP STRAW laid the foundations. Now we build.
400+ straw building resources from across the world:
📚 Zotero archive → vb.nweurope.eu/projects/pro...
📍 4th November | NSBRC Swindon
🎟️ SBUK Symposium 2025
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-...
#SBUK2025 #biophilia #tuesdaythoughts
Hear about Denmark’s successful Reduction Roadmap #EmbodiedCarbon Story. Could #PartZ do the same for the UK?
Webinar recording now available: asbp.org.uk/webinar-reco...
With Reduction Roadmap’s Fabian Lecker & Sinus Lynge of EFFEKT Architects; and Part Z’s Tim den Dekker & Will Arnold.
Building with straw?
Explore our guide for advice, case studies, and planning help.
Members can help you take the next step.
www.strawbuildinguk.org/self-build
📷 Mike Penfold
#biophilia #strawbuild #selfbuild
🎉 NSBRC is now a certified B Corp.
📍 They will host the SBUK Symposium on 4 November - a full day on biophilia and natural materials.
🎟️ Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-...
🤝 Platinum sponsors: @ecococon.bsky.social Ecological Building Systems
#SBUK2025 #biophilia #biobasedmaterials
Congratulations 🎉🌾🏡
🎉 #SBUK2025 is live!
📍 4 Nov @ NSBRC Swindon
🌿 Biobased futures, 10 years strong
🎟️ Tickets now open. Let’s build what’s next.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-...
🤝 Platinum Sponsors: Ecococon + EBS, now one team UK & Ireland.
#SBUK2025 #biobasedmaterials #architecture #retrofit #construction
If you can make it, be there tomorrow 🌾
Spotlight on European Straw Building Gathering 2025 Speakers!
Founder of @schoolofnatbuild.bsky.social & founding member of SBUK, Barbara Jones is a presenting at #esbg2025
Early Bird tickets are here: esbg2025.casasdepaja.org
#ESBA #reddeconstruccionconpaja #RCP #bioconstrucciones
Back in 2023 he talked about his straw + passivhaus with us. Watch it again, here: youtu.be/G8Bx82R2DbY?...
#throwbackthursday
A straw-insulated home does not need to shout - it simply feels right.
@jurajmikurcik.bsky.social’s home holds steady at 21°C even in a heatwave.
Visit a Passivhaus near you during their Open Days later this month: www.passivhaustrust.org.uk/event_detail...
🌾 Wellspring’s school project in London shows how straw is reshaping public architecture - quietly, beautifully.
🏫 Heathland School Wellbeing Centre
🔗 www.wellspringarchitecture.co.uk/heathland-sc...
#sbuk #strawbuilding #biobasedmaterials #publicarchitecture #ESBA
📣 SBUK Symposium is now postponed
New date coming soon 🌾
Thanks for your patience 🙏
More updates soon!
