July 30, 2021
‘Cement Free Foundations’
Saturday 31st July 1035 – 1135 BST online (Zoom)
‘Straw and Building Regulations’
Saturday 31st July 1225 – 1245 BST online (Zoom)
Barbara Jones is a strawbale building guru having set up construction companies Straw Works, and Amazon Nails. She is the author of Building with Straw Bales – the most comprehensive guide to strawbale building, a founding member of SBUK and is a Director of The School of Natural Building.
She is now an independent consultant and board member of Todmorden Learning Centre and Community Hub.
How much UK housing could be built using available straw?
Bringing together ecological design, natural building and regenerative practice
Discover straw building projects from across Europe
Five days of international collaboration, technical exchange and innovation
Measured performance in a lived-in load-bearing straw bale home
Why long-term housing quality depends on widening the way we think about delivery, regulation, retrofit, and responsibility across the built environment.
School of Natural Building – Practical Natural Building Course
Measured performance in a lived-in load-bearing straw bale home
ASBP Material Mornings - Natural fibre insulation in practice
The December 2025 issue highlights the UK resource and the low embodied-carbon values set out in the straw EPD.