[Strawbale] Design of Straw Bale Buildings

[Marcus]

A little plug for a long awaited book. I haven't read it yet 
but it will be in my hands at the earliest opportunity.

*Design of Straw Bale Buildings - The State of the Art*
http://www.greenbuildingpress.com/dsbb/index.htm

 From the (online) introduction:
"The Internet has also been key to the growth of straw bale 
construction, as the sudden ubiquity of Web access has made 
it astonishingly easy for the nascent straw bale community – 
for lack of a better word for a very loose-knit worldwide 
group of inventors, builders, scientists, architects, and 
engineers – to communicate, collaborate, and learn from 
mistakes. And, as straw bale construction remains almost
completely in the public domain, there is little protection 
of secrets or glossing-over of mistakes. Quite in contrast 
with other building technologies that are jealously guarded, 
the non-proprietary nature of straw bale building – with a 
few exceptions – has kept innovation, refinement, and 
failures out in the open for all to learn from."