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CISL Entopia Building – Material learnings and reuse

The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) needed a headquarters that reflected its own values, so it (...)

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La Borda - Cooperative Housing in Barcelona

Credits : Lacol Barcelona-based Lacol, a cooperative of architects, has been named as the winner of the 2022 Emerging Archite (...)

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Webinar: Building materials – A hidden heavyweight for the climate

  An area the size of Paris is added to the global built surface every week. The production of building materials and constru (...)

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A MOOC on straw construction

A Massive Open Online Course is an online learning programme, also known as a MOOC. The UP STRAW partners have written a (...)

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National straw networks

There is a strong network of straw bale construction - nationally and internationally. In many European countries constructio (...)

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[Webinar Series] Green Innovations Webinar Series – Smarter/IGBC

Date(s) - 28/04/2021 - 26/05/2021 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Discover innovative building materials and systems for creating quality (...)

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Owl Woods Passive House

3 bedroom plus study single-family home. Timber construction throughout. Inland regional location with cool winters and warm (...)

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Old Holloway straw passivhaus

Old Holloway is a private single family house in rural Herefordshire. It's a simple, modest, single storey dwelling with (...)

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The Takienta

The Takienta (Otammari construction) is the only one-story dwelling in the world built entirely of local materials. It is (...)

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Hastings Visitor Centre built with straw

The 'Bale House' is the new Visitor Centre in Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve, funded by Hastings Borough Council with (...)

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The biggest library dedicated to straw construction

The partners of the UP STRAW project have created a library of more than 400 publications dedicated to building with straw (...)

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Rural BioHeat Utilities – Best Practice

Establishing affordable and reliable biomass-based heat utilities in towns, villages and rural areas. At this Heat Academy (...)

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When materials match pedagogy and values : Educational institution Emmanuel d’Alzon

Interview with Sébastien Girardeau (Dauphins architecture). Having looked at your work and achievements since 2007, I noted (...)

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Low impact bio-based construction materials ready for the mass market

Construction industry stakeholders and policy makers gathered on 29 January in Brussels to discuss the potential of natural (...)

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TAIWAN - Bamboo Pavilion / ZUO STUDIO

Green building materials from Taiwan. Bamboo Pavilion, located in the fourth area of Fengyuan Huludun Park, is an exhibition (...)

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