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Dear
Chug, dear Andre dear straw bale building community,
At the
esbn Gathering in April this year, we (GrAT = Center for Appropriate Technology
at the Vienna University of Technology) proposed to organise and to host the
subgroup technical research (tests and new constructions).
As a
first step we launched a mailing list for the subgroup, to focus the discussion
on testing and construction issues. This would allow us on the one hand to
discuss spezific issues in a smaller group of experts and on the other hand the
main mailing list will not be overloaded with very detailed
discussions.
This e-mail list is now redesigned and much easier to manage and to use.
Anyone who is interessted can susbcribe at
http://www.htu.tuwien.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/esbn-techresearch The second step was to send the results of the esbn workshop on testing and new constructions to the list members, those who subscribed at the gathering. This mail also included a to-do-list concerning future testing and available test results. These activities were meant to bring up all available test results and certificates and to prevent redundant research and testing. Unfortunately this message didn`t get through. Concerning the question of Chug and the e-mail of André, I want to stress that we (GrAT) have proposed to install and host this mailling list, because it was common sense at the gathering that such a platform for specific discussions on tests and new constructions is necessary and would support and spread strawbale building in Europe. We still believe, that such a platform will support straw bale building and invite all straw bale building experts to discuss tests and new constructions, to share information on existing test results and to build up a data base of existing test certificates. What we cannot do is to keep a mailing list alive, if nobody is using the list. So I can only repeat, that the offer is still available and the mailing list will be hosted by us. So feel free to use it!!! Best regards Hannes Dipl. Ing. Hannes Hohensinner
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