Straw Bale Building Courses Australia

Ausbale is a group of building industry professionals researchers owner builders and interested people who share our knowledge and experiences.

Straw bale building courses australia. With the range of different straw bale building techniques used e g. Andrew has over 20 years of professional construction experience and in that time has done everything from design and build his own house work as a licensed contractor and developer give a tedx talk and numerous other presentations co author a national building code to host several step by step instructional videos on contracting and building houses and much more. Sam is a great communicator and our participants cover a great deal of detailed information during the 3 day course. This is very different to a strawbale workshop where you re working on someone s actual home and only see one building method and usually only see the straw wall raising or rendering independently.

Strawbale buildings in high bush fire risk areas at present need additional construction requirements and in these cases strawbales provide insulation only. Sam builds straw bale homes across nsw queensland and the act. We go through the entire building process from start to finish in a practical and professional tafe style learning format with cpd points you may be able to claim. Sam vivers of vivahomes is a professional builder who has been building houses since 1996.

Email protected we hold a contractors licence issued by the nsw department of fair trading 80594c. Australia john on 0498 190 880 susan on 0412 11 61 57 email. Sam lives in a straw bale house and has for over a decade. This website is a place to ask questions find answers seek inspiration share photos articles advice and contribute to the growing movement towards better smarter ecologically sustainable non.

A strawbale building can be anything you want it to be as long as you want it to be the best home office school retail space possible. This calendar is maintained in a rolling two year period. 21 23 august 2020 arec straw bale building course where you learn in the mornings and in the afternoon you ll put into practise what you ve learnt. Not only is strawbale construction a practical cost effective means of building green but is also an efficient and versatile material for many and varied applications.

Natural building workshops 2021. Bales on flat or on edge type of straw used render thickness and composition ausbale will ensure that the testing will cover as many different scenarios as possible. It takes time for natural builders and organisations to plan their building timetables so workshops for 2021 usually start to appear in late 2020 but events like the uk s clayfest are planned earlier. This one of the best ways to learn by doing.

You ll receive the strawbale and natural building manual where attendees have used years afterwards when building their own buildings. John glassford is the founder of ausbale and it s charter president. The ausbale committee is currently developing a plan to carry out such testing.