[strawbale] Gathering first short summary

[Herbert Gruber <d.sign@aon...>]

Title: Gathering first short summary

European Gathering 2002 in Austria

With over 100 strawbale- and strawbale-interested people the annual ESBN-Gathering in Austria was a inspiring and highly informative event. People from all over Europe joined the meeting in Wösendorf/Wachau (Bauatelier Schmelz), a compact four days programm with workshop (loadbearing and infill), presentations and working groups to specific technical and organizational topics in the end.

First days workshop began with strawbale-basics, history and building-techniques, thursday morning was reserved for international experiences and presentations: Herbert Gruber (ASBN) about Austria´s prefabricated SB-houses, Barbara Jones and Bee Rowan (Amazon Nails) about houses in Great Britain and the new spiral house, Attila Meszaros about Hungarian efforts, Dirk Scharmer, Axel Linde and Sören Conrads about Germany. Excursions showed Austrias exciting SB-examples like a gym in Allentsteig (presented by planner Wolfgang Tillich) and 3 passive and low-energy houses.

On friday Martin Oehlmann reported about the Floriade and SB houses in The Netherlands, Lars Keller introduced new test-results and showed pictures from Denmark, Alice Reite showed strawbale-houses from Norway, Ales Brotanek, Jan Hollan and Jan Kral reported about the network in Czech Republic and Herwig van Soom showed new buildings and his exciting new house in Belgium.
 
Evening presentations showed the engaged plans for the S-House by GrAT (Hannes Hohensinner, Robert Wimmer and Kerstin Glöckl) in Austria, another official moisture-testing- and passive-house-project by Austrian Ecology-Institute (Erwin Schwarzmüller), French houses and more details about the Floriade (Tom Rijven) and new technological experiences from USA and possible problems in SB-building (Tim Owen Kennedy).

It was a fascinating event, and, as Martin Oehlmann mentioned in the end: "a sign, that strawbale-construction becomes more and more professional in Europe".

Herbert & Astrid Gruber (ASBN) & Markus Piringer (Global 2000)
organizers of the Gathering

more informations and the whole report soon on: www.baubiologie.at

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asbn austrian strawbale network
herbert & astrid gruber
http://www.baubiologie.at
email: asbn@aon...
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