Building with Straw Bales: A Step-by-step Guide - Sustainable Building 6 (Paperback)
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This book explains in straightforward terms the principles of straw-bale building for self-builders, architects and construction industry professionals.
Straw-bale buildings are cost-effective, easy to build and are highly energy efficient, enabling you to design and build beautiful, environmentally friendly buildings. Written with non-experts in mind, this practical book takes you through everything you need to know in an easy, accessible way:
The benefits of building with straw bales
Design principles
Building with straw bales
Finishes: lime and clay plasters
Planning and permission
Building regulations
This revised and expanded third edition brings the book up to date and includes lots of stunning full-colour photographs throughout to illustrate the design and build process. In this full colour edition of the book Grand Designs described as "the essential guide to straw-bale building", Barbara Jones uses her years of experience in natural building methods to guide self-builders and architects using straw as a sustainable material for a diverse range of comfortable and environmentally friendly buildings.
Publisher: Green Books
ISBN: 9780857842282
Number of pages: 240
Weight: 839 g
Dimensions: 255 x 205 x 18 mm
Edition: Full colour edition
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"Barbara Jones is the UK's most experienced straw bale builder. In this clear and practical book, she shares her years of practical wisdom and offers would-be builders, architects and planners a detailed understanding of how and why to build with straw bales." -- Ben Law, woodsman, author and eco-builder
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