[Strawbale]moisture questionnaire: please help!

[Mark Bigland-Pritchard // Low Energy Design <hyphen@dial....com>]

 I tried to send the following message to this list last week.  I think 
it failed because I added a fairly large attachment (maybe Jan or Simon 
could confirm this?).

Dear all

As part of my PhD work on strawbale building and moisture, I would like 
to get a broader picture of the worldwide experience.  I have therefore 
prepared a questionnaire - I would be grateful if as many people as 
possible would download it and return it to me.  You can find it in 
either of two places:  
- on my own website at 
http://www.hyphen.dial.pipex.com/straw/moisture/questionnaire/quest.htm 
, or
- in the "files" section of the sb-r-us site at 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SB-r-us/files/  , in a folder called 
"moisture questionnaire".  You need to join the sb-r-us conference in 
order to access this.
- Alternatively, if you can't get into either of those, email me at 
hyphen@dial....com and I'll send you a copy direct.
At present, I only have it available in Word 2000 (.doc) and .rtf formats.

Questionnaire responses are welcome from anyone who is responsible for a 
completed strawbale building.  Obviously, the more responses I get, the 
more useful my work will be to the strawbale community as a whole.  All 
responses should come directly to me at hyphen@dial....com

(The PhD will eventually be published online in some form or other - I 
haven't checked out the university's views on copyright in this regard, 
but I'm sure I can at least publish the most useful bits.  The core of 
my work is about getting at the basic physical properties of straw; but 
from that I expect to be able to come up with a set of [tentative but 
scientifically argued] guidelines for any location based on its 
meteorological data.  If you want to know more, ask me.)

I would be _particularly_ grateful for any responses from temperate 
maritime climates (with the terms interpreted fairly broadly).  In case 
you're not sure whether I include you in that description, check whether 
your location is on the following list:
- Sweden:  coastal, south of 59deg N
- Norway:  coastal, south of 61deg N
- Denmark:  all
- Germany:  Bremen/Bremerhaven, Niedersachsen north of 53deg N, 
Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- Netherlands:  all
- Belgium:  all
- France:  west coast north of Bordeaux,  Bretagne,  Normandie,  Picardie
- England: all
- Wales: all
- Scotland: all
- Northern Ireland: all
- Republic of Ireland: all
- Iceland:  southern coast
- Canada (E):  maritime provinces; Newfoundland; Gulf of St Lawrence 
coast of Quebec
- USA (E):  coastal strip of New England
- USA (W):  Alaska: coastal zone south of 61deg N
- Canada (W):  British Columbia: coastal zone and islands
- USA (NW):  coastal Washington, Oregon & North California:  north of 
38deg N, west of Cascades / Sierra Nevada
- Chile:  between 41deg S and 50deg S
- New Zealand:  South Island; North Island south of 39deg S
- Australia:  Tasmania, coastal Victoria
- Japan:  Hokkaido;  Honshu north of 36deg N
- Russia:  Kamchatka, Sakhalin

I would also be grateful if people could forward this questionnaire to 
folks in those areas who might not otherwise see it.

All responses should come directly to me at hyphen@dial....com


Many thanks for your assistance
Mark Bigland-Pritchard
Bristol,  England