March 10, 2021
The UPSTRAW Yearbook 2020 is now released.
Up Straw is a European INTERREG programme, launched in 2017, uniting partners across Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK to advance public sector adoption of straw and other biobased materials through investment, policy alignment, and the delivery of five exemplar public buildings.
Other project outcomes covered in this Yearbook include:
- Building Information Modelling : improving the production and management of digital information in construction
- Zotero library: more than 400 publications dedicated to building with straw
- Massive Open Online Course: a brand new MOOC to help you learn more about straw building
- Life Cycle Analysis: a cradle to grave approach, which quantifies the environmental impact of construction
- National Networks: showing the straw bale associations and networks in each partner country
We hope you enjoy this publication and encourage you to forward it to your colleagues and others in your networks: UPSTRAW Yearbook 2020.
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