Have you heard of Thlolego? It's an established eco-village project near Rustenburg about an hour north of Joburg. We spent a couple of months there in 2002 and found it very inspiring. They worked with Brian Woodward from Australia and developed a low cost, ecological housing construction method perfectly suited to the climate there. It's not actually strawbale, instead they use earth-filled sacks that are plastered. The buildings are extremely beautiful, you can see them on their website:
<a href="http://www.sustainable-futures.com/">http://www.sustainable-futures.com/</a>. Their philosophy is to train local people in all the skills needed to build this type of housing for themselves.<br><br>I'm sure they would have advice for you, and also contatcs to other projects in S Africa.
<br><br>Cheers<br>Simon<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 16/05/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">CAMP: c'Lanne moroney</b> <<a href="mailto:camp@camp2020...">camp@camp2020...</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
am investigating the possibility of buidling with strawbale in south<br>africa, and am wondering about the problems with termite infestation.<br>are there any boron treatments, or is is a question of detailing,<br>ensuring no holes and so forth. building on a raised platform,
<br>therefore introducing the usual anti-climb techniques, is a<br>possibility, though not ideal.<br><br>regards<br><br>c'Lanne<br><br><br>____________________________________________________<br> European strawbale building discussion list
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