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Strawbale Open Day & Building Workshop Sessions
Food Forest, Gawler

The Food Forest is holding information sessions for building with strawbale:

  • Strawbale Building Workshop -
    15 - 16 May (requires booking).

Visit the Food Forest website for directions and workshop enrolment information [here].


Sunday 12 September 2010

Sustainable House Day is a great chance to see a working example of many concepts of sustainable living in action.

Peoples homes are opened to the public as part of an initiative to encourage better design and education for existing and future homes.

Please visit the SHD website [here] for more information and where the open homes will be this year,

Building the Education Revolution

We have been working with many schools and builders across South Australia to prepare design and concept plan reports to help deliver new projects for the Building the Education Revolution programme.

Further information can be found at: www.australia.gov.au/economicstimulus/ or www.buildingmanagement.sa.gov.au/bsl

 
Featured Articles

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"Straw - The Next Great Building Material?"
Architect & Builder Magazine, No 32.
2010.

"Straw, as a fibre, has been used as part of building materials for thousands of years."

"Following the Dream"
Natural Home Builder, Vol 3.
May 2008.

"For some the journey of turning a dream house into reality is as important arriving at the destination."

"Sustainable Strawbale "
ReNew, Issue 94.
Jan-Mar 2006.

"Martin Freney shares his experience of how a storage shed evolved into the perfect passive solar strawbale home."

"Handcrafted With Care"
The Owner Builder Magazine, No 128.
Apr-May 2005.

"Strawbale and radial timber loft house."

"A Hall Built of Straw"
The Messenger Newspaper.
29 Oct 2008.

The community hall project in Ferryden Park, that over 100 people attended at the weekend workshops.

 

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