Jun 11, 2012 | Canada's Greenest Home, Natural building materials and techniques, Straw bale building
This week the Endeavour class spent a day at the facilities of NatureBuilt Wall Systems, where we assisted with the construction of some of the S-SIP walls that will be used in Canada’s Greenest Home. The S-SIPs are largely identical to the load-bearing straw bale...
Jun 11, 2012 | Canada's Greenest Home, Natural building materials and techniques
The Endeavour class has completed the foundation for Canada’s Greenest Home. The crawlspace foundation is made with Durisol blocks (now called Nexcem). Durisol is an insulated concrete form (ICF) that uses waste wood chips in a cement slurry to form large blocks...
Oct 18, 2011 | Thoughts on Building
Human beings are remarkable at figuring things out. Put a problem in front of us – especially one with a solution that will make us wealthier and/or more comfortable – and we’ll come up with all kinds of solutions for that problem. Nothing triggers our collective...
