Building

Training photos

Training photos

Posted on 15th Nov 2025

A few photos from the training we attended on loadbearing straw buildings.

MVH training notes

Posted on 15th Nov 2025

A few random notes taken during our loadbearing straw building training course with MVH. General information about load-bearing strawbale houses Technique not suitable for timber cladding (battens must be added and fixed to the top and bottom timber plates for it to work): the straw is prote...

Back from Ariège

Back from Ariège

Posted on 27th Oct 2025

Well, this time it looks like we've made up our minds: we're going with loadbearing straw bales as the building system for tour house! Of course, it was fairly predictable that the training course we just completed over 4.5 days in Ariège with the Mieux Vivre Habitation (MVH) coop would reinfor...