Sep 9, 2014 | Construction Blogs, Straw bale building, Teachers' Union offices
Over 20 years of building with straw bales, I have constantly experimented with new ways to integrate bale walls into buildings that are simple, cost-effective and energy/resource efficient. From load bearing to prefab panels to a variety of framing systems, I thought...
Jan 5, 2014 | Circle Organic Farm Building, Construction Blogs, Natural plaster, Recipes
One of the most exciting elements of the Circle Organic farm project is the home-made hydraulic lime plaster we successfully used on the interior and exterior walls of the building. With this new recipe, we are able to make a plaster with locally sourced materials...
Dec 24, 2013 | Circle Organic Farm Building, Construction Blogs, Straw bale building
We do a lot of straw bale work at Endeavour, but it’s such a normal part of what we do that there haven’t been any posts that show us putting in bales for a long time! Over the past few years, we’ve arrived at a framing system for our bale walls that...
