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Straw Bale Training Standards for the EU

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RESET hosts UK Leonardo II meeting, 25th - 30th April
Centre for Alternative Technology

As the UK's National Agency for this EU-funded project, RESET Development hosted 20 of our European partners at the Centre for Alternative Technology, where straw bale construction and training has been taking place for over a decade.

Training and Good Building Practice Working Groups worked through training standards approaches and detailing differences between countries. The group also visited Michael Howlett's (and some stayed over night) radical two storey load-bearing strawbale semi-detacjhed houses on a suburban street in Pembroke Dock. Radical as much as anything because of its 'normality' and conventional appearance, which the planners loved.

We then went to the other extreme at Brithdir Mawr living community, visiting Tony Wrench at 'that roundhouse' and Emma in her own straw bale roundhouse, a personal demonstration and commitment to living in simplicty and harmony with the natural world.

Rachel Shiamnh's lovely 2 storey loadbearing house us a track on the edge of St Dogmael's was followed by a visit to the Lammas Housing Co-operative who then hosted us for the rest of the afternoon, visiting Simon Dale's beautiful straw bale roundhouse and the lovely, large and light Community Building which is somehow reminiscent of a French threshing barn.

Another day of working groups was finished off by celebrating Zuzana's birthday, with singing and eating in the traditional way! A really positive meeting with a large amount of ground covered, on the way to producing a straw bale construction trianing programme that can help move the construction industry towards being a genuinely low carbon sector.

22nd November 2011

RESET Development, in partnership with seven other EU national agencies, has been awarded funding under the EU Leonardo da Vinci Life Long Learning Programme, to develop a straw bale qualification, as part 2 of the Leonardo Programme.

RESET is working in partnership with Bee Rowan and Barbara Jones of the previous organisation Amazonails that did so much to develop straw bale as a recognised ecological construction method in the UK and beyond.

More information will follow shortly.

For more information on the Programme:

European Strawbale Network
Leonardo - European Learning Partnership for Strawbale Building
www.strawbale-net.eu

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