Jan 2, 2018 | Material Videos, Natural building materials and techniques, Straw bale building
Round straw bale columns Many people use small, square straw bales to make buildings, but we used the big round bales as load-bearing columns in a building! The big rounds are incredibly dense and uniform, and we lab tested them to 120,000 pounds of load! They are...
Jun 26, 2017 | Building Product Reviews, Construction Blogs, Embodied Carbon, Natural building materials and techniques, Zero House prefab
The Zero House is designed to have zero net energy use, zero carbon footprint and zero toxins. But it is also designed to be completely prefabricated and modular! It features prefab wall panels, floor panels and roof panels that can be fabricated off site and...
Sep 20, 2016 | Construction Blogs, Hempcrete, Jumbo bale duplex, Natural building materials and techniques, Recipes, Straw bale building
Fifth Wind Farms wanted to create a building that could reach the energy efficiency requirements of the Passive House standard without resorting to the use of foam, mineral wool or other materials with a high carbon footprint. While straw bale buildings can have...
Oct 5, 2014 | Construction Blogs, Natural plaster, Straw bale building, Teachers' Union offices
Sustainable New Construction 2014 student Ben Bowman set up his camera and took some great sequences of the construction process at our teachers’ union office project. Here are the two sequences of straw bale installation and earthen plastering. In many ways,...
Sep 19, 2014 | Construction Blogs, Natural building materials and techniques, Natural plaster, Recipes, Teachers' Union offices
It’s no secret that we love clay plasters at Endeavour, and the best case scenario is being able to use a clay soil right from the building site. It just so happens that we lucked into this for the teachers’ union office project! After digging some test...
