<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:"Courier New", "courier", "monaco", monospace, sans-serif;font-size:18pt"><p>Dear Lisa and Louis,</p><p>Hello David Eisenberg, Hello all,</p><p><br></p><p>There are some points really easy to find about the durability of a strawbale house.</p><ul><li>You can contact several professionnal in this area in France.</li><li>There's a welknown house in france built in 1921 in Montargis south of Paris. This house is still a pretty inhabited house. you can find it on the internet with google and search.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>In France, Germany, Austria, Belgium professional work and build house and they don't built them for a small period of 15 years!!</p><ul><li>You have the welknown German organisation named FASBA if you speak german there's a lots of information.</li><li>The French one RFCP (which work for the respect of laws contruction and
Normes)</li><li>Authorities here in France are building sport hall, nursery, social houses so not only for 15 years!</li><li>But you can also find an answer by contacting an architect who works in switzerland named Werner schmidt</li></ul><p><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.atelierwernerschmidt.ch/Innovativ.pdf">http://www.atelierwernerschmidt.ch/Innovativ.pdf</a></span></p><p><br></p><p>Austrian are also in advance.</p><p>In Europe
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research work with professional to improve the activity.</p><p><br></p><p>So Yes you will find profesional answers which will help you to build your file and serious help, I am sure. </p><p>As I prepared a specialized Master in Business intelligence, 2 years ago I wrote a thesis about "strawbale Houses in Europe and what could bring this activity to the market place". </p><p>I took part At the belgium ESBG week in August in Belgium and was pleased to see and hear David Eisenberg and a lots of professional with strawbalen ball as well as German who are more advanced.</p><p><br></p><p>The architect Werner Schmidt in switzerland works for companies and privates people he has built house and building of 2 or 3 levels. really impressive!! </p><p>And believe me if it wasn't strong they would never ever build it.</p><p>So I am pretty sure that you will find, results and answers from those links I wrote you here. Just search on the internet
and try to contact those people.</p><p><br></p><p>The movement now is more and more known so so shoud succeed.</p><p>People who are not informed often have so false ideas about strawbale!! amazing!</p><p><br></p><p>Do not hesitate to re-contact me by mail in case you need more infos.</p><p>And good luck for your project!</p><p>Best Regards<br></p><div> </div><p><font style="FONT-STYLE:italic;FONT-FAMILY:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;COLOR:rgb(0,127,127);FONT-WEIGHT:bold;" size="2"><font size="3">Jacqueline Renaud</font></font><font style="FONT-FAMILY:tahoma, new york, times, serif;COLOR:rgb(64,0,127);" size="2"><span style="FONT-STYLE:italic;COLOR:rgb(0,127,127);FONT-WEIGHT:bold;"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="FONT-STYLE:italic;"><br></span></font><strong><font style="FONT-FAMILY:garamond, new york, times, serif;COLOR:rgb(0,191,96);" size="2"><font size="4"><font size="3"><font
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style="font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:18pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> David Eisenberg <strawnet@aol...><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> European strawbale building discussions <strawbale@amper....muni.cz><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sun, June 12, 2011 5:21:49 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Strawbale] A request that came to DCAT from Switzerland<br></font><br>
Hello all,<br><br>I am hoping that there is someone in Switzerland or at least on this list in Europe who can give this person the help they are requesting.<br><br>Thank you,<br><br>David Eisenberg<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.dcat.net">www.dcat.net</a><br>
<br><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-size:medium;">June 11, 2011 10:37:19 PM PDT<br>
</span></div><br>Email: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:lamdaki@live..." target="_blank" href="mailto:lamdaki@live...">lamdaki@live...</a><br>Questions: Hello Mr. Eisenberg,<br><br>we are a little family living in Nax, Switzerland.<br>We want to build a small hotel with as a straw bale house (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mayaguesthouse.wordpress.com/">mayaguesthouse.wordpress.com</a>)<div>
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We got pretty far with our project, found a bank to finance it, but
their constriction expert doesn\'t know how to handle this kind of
construction.<br>Not having a straw bale house in the region he estimated the durability at 15 years.<br>Do
you have any sources, documents about straw bale houses older than
40/50 years? Something we can prove that it is to be handled as any
other building?<br><br>Thank you very much<br><br>Lisa and Louis Papadopoulos<br><br>By the way, we have your name from Natural Homes.</div>
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