November 5, 2021
Here is a great article by RIBA on natural building materials featuring Grain Architecture’s Janna Laan Lomas.
Janna will be presenting at RIBA’s online event: Guerilla Tactics, 9th – 11th November. Programme details are HERE and tickets are HERE
A project of Grain Architecture ‘s is below, built in collaboration SBUK members Joe Duirwyn ( Hartwyn) and Jeffrey Hart
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
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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.