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"Are you advocating for, or at least experimenting with, biobased materials?"

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#construction #biobased

Appreciate this Michael and @darrenmcleanuk.bsky.social

Maciej’s #esbg2023 talk at @eurostrawbuilding.bsky.social reframes the narrative

Straw construction isn’t niche, it’s historically global

🌾 Straw insulation delivered as a complete wall system

🧱 Paired with lime for stable, vapour-open performance

🏠 Practical, site-ready thinking from SSH Boards

🔗 szalmapaplan.hu

#biobased #strawconstruction #limeplaster #naturalmaterials #buildingperformance #esba

One to watch.

The ‘Biobased Insulation Deal’ brings property maintenance companies together to insulate homes at scale using biobased materials.

A reference point for the current focus on standardisation and implementation from Province of South Holland.

www.zuid-holland.nl/actueel/nieu...

Six short training sessions in France:

🔸1-3 days
🔸March - April

👇🏾

Tipping Point East launched recently as a new space for exchange on culture, place and climate. One to watch as its programme and conversations develop.

www.tippingpointeast.com

#builtenvironment #skills #design #london

Building Performance Evaluation: Achieving Better Outcomes Guest editors: Bill Bordass, Paul Ruyssevelt & Fionn Stevenson

📊 Evidence on how buildings actually perform in use matters more than ever.

⏳ Final call for BPE abstracts

⏰ deadline 23rd March

A couple of my screenshots of yesterday’s co-hosted webinar by SBUK & SEDA. My pics don’t do the design or presentation justice at all!

If you missed it then look out for forthcoming notifications on SEDA’s platforms (website, YouTube etc)

🌾 #strawbuilding #accessibility #construction

Our New Future: Redefining Risk, Resilience and Regeneration Beyond Net Zero: who carries the risk, who builds the future, and how do we get there?

📆 Thursday 12th March

🌍 Most places we live and work already exist. That should change how we approach risk, resilience and regeneration.

➡️ New Future

📍Glasgow

🎙️ I’m representing STBA. Book now.

🎟 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/our-new-fu...

You’ve just built your fantastically brilliant house. But does it perform as intended?

Post Occupancy Evaluation, POE, is the process designers use to measure how a building actually works once people are living in it.

Curious?

Sign up now!

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🪚 Skilled carpenter, joiner or furniture maker?

🌿 Freelance Lead Course Tutor role in Devon, flexible teaching with paid training. £25 per hour teaching, £17 per hour training.

Apply: hello@touchwoodsouthwest.com

#carpentry #joinery #furnituremaker #construction #genderequality

Why I’m building an office out of straw Straw bales are a cheap building materials and they are great for insulation.

From a garden office in Sheffield to a market cold room in Kenya, straw applied in very different contexts.

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#construction #strawbuilding #biobasedmaterials #embodiedcarbon #bioeconomy

Marchants Hill.

Lichen on birch.

Growing only where atmosphere and conditions still allow quiet things to survive.

#cleanair #climate #nature #guildford

Maison Feuillette | ESBA This building is the oldest wooden and straw construction in the world. Built in 1920, it was bought in 2013 by the National Centre for Straw Construction (CNCP). It is a symbol of the durability of t...

106 years old and still standing!

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Sign up for #learning sessions across Europe for early 2026 ✅

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Living and working in London, Paris Biobased is a useful reference point for how coherence drives progress in biobased construction.

parisbiobased.eu

#biobased #esba

Straw Building UK (@strawbuildinguk.bsky.social) 🏆 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…

Straw construction takes a visible place in Innovate UK’s latest awards through Agreka Build.

ASBP Healthy Buildings Conference 2026 The ASBP’s 10th Healthy Buildings Conference will feature a keynote from Professor Stephen Holgate, expert sessions on PFAS and POPs, WELL Building case studies, indoor air quality research and natura...

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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🌾 A recent Vakgroep Strobouw visit included three biobased projects in the Achterhoek, including the retreat centre ‘the place to – Be’ on the Slangenburg estate.

#strawbuilding #esba

#esbg2025 #esba | Cypren Edmunds 🌾🏡 Ahead of the start of the European Straw Building Gathering in Barcelona tomorrow, I was asked a simple question: why build with straw? I think my short answer does justice to such a big idea 🌾🏡 #ES...

This week in Barcelona: Europe’s leading straw builders, designers + manufacturers meet for #ESBG2025

🌾 Exciting days ahead!
#ESBG2025 #Strawbale #BiobasedConstruction

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This case study is ground breaking

You need to sign up to #SBUK2025 & hear about it directly from the team responsible

Register now ⬇️

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.

🎤 Designing with nature in mind, at a scale that feels human again.

Paul Crosby joins #SBUK2025 🌱

Straw is a co-product.

This matters when you’re counting carbon.

🎥 and this clip of 1 min 20 sec. says it all:

We will go further at the SBUK Symposium 2025.

Details & tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-...

#sbuk2025 #biobasedmaterials #epd #biophilia #construction #lowcarbon

Last ESBG event (2023) there was a presentation about a public swimming pool, retrofitted with straw.

At this year’s #ESBG2025 META2020 will demonstrate, again, how 80% of energy savings will be made using straw as a construction material to retrofit their site.

Get your ticket! 👇🏽

📚 Still proud of this.

UP STRAW laid the ground - #ESBG2025 & #SBUK2025 builds from it.

→ @strawbuildinguk.bsky.social
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#upstraw #biophilia #throwbackthursday

🇫🇷 France includes sequestered carbon in building regulation (RE2020) & has built over 10,000 straw buildings to date.

The UK still lacks regulation on #embodiedcarbon & #biobased materials are left out of policy, finance & scale.

Support Part Z: www.part-z.uk/support-part-z

#partz

Biophilia Summit 2025. Call for abstracts is open! - Living Future Europe Living Future Europe is excited to announce the call for proposals for our third Biophilia Summit, taking place online, 25 September 2025.

❗️Deadline this Friday

living-future.eu/biophilia-su...

#biophilia

Insulate from this.