[Strawbale] Re: SB house threatened in Andalucía

["Simon Blackbourn" <piemanek@gmail...>]

Dear Nicky

Really sorry to hear such bad news, let's hope that fdaced with more information they will change their minds...

I have copied your message to the European Strawbale list, as I know there are people who have done lots of work with fire testing - is anyone able to maybe provide some links/data/testimonial to Nicky that could be shown to the Spanish authorities that strawbale is not a fire risk? Any examples from Spain would be even better...

Best Wishes
Simon

>From: "" < LOWproject@BESTFOOTFORWARD.COM>
>Reply-To: <LOWproject@bestfootforward...>
>To: < rnitzkin@hotmail...>
>Subject: Strawbale in Andalucia
>Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 01:49:24 -0800 (PST)
>
>We have built a strawbale building in Parque de Aracena in andalucia which
>because of various confusions about what we had applied for permission for,
>it now has a demolition order (and a fine) hanging over it -their reasons
>being that it is a fire hazard and unaesthetic!. Part of the reason why we
>wanted to build it was to show that there are alternatives to the horrific
>amounts of cement that go into spanish buildings and I am doing an
>ecological footprint ananlysis on the building ( see
>www.bestfootforward.com - the company I own and run when I'm not trying to
>build something!). I had thought that the Park authority might also see
>this but it seems not. We are fighting the demolition order on principle
>but I was wondering if there is a website of Spanish strawbale examples
>anywhere which we could use to make the building less scary! >king regards
>
>Nicky Chambers