Strawbale Links
There are some 10,000 plus pages about strawbale construction on the Internet and the number is growing all the time.
Within Australia
- Huff n Puff - John Glassford, strawbale builder, NSW
- House of Bales - Lance Kairl, Goolwa SA
- Anvil Strawbale
Overseas:
- Strawbale Surfin
- The US Dept of Energy - excellent for practical building info and many graphs and certified results comparing materials
- Greenbuilder - passive Solar design concepts and rules of thumb
- The Development Center for Appropriate Technology (DCAT) - page on straw-bale construction
- El Paso Solar Energy Association
- Crest - sustainable building information
- Crest - email discussion group about straw-bale
- Earth ships and strawbale - good for more references and slides of buildings
- Natural Building Resources - suppliers of the Black Range videos and books, some on strawbale
- California Straw Building Association
- Terrasol Designs
- Twisted Road - personal story of building in the desert with mud brick and straw
- Bale-watch.com - 50 plans for strawbale houses
Builder
- Lance Kairl at Goolwa (south of Adelaide) - Email: sabale@bigpond.com
Books
- 'Serious Straw Bale' - from Earth Garden, PO Box 2, Trentham, Vic 3458
- 'Build it with Bales' - Matts Myhrman and SO MacDonald
- 'Straw Bale Building' - Chris Magwood and Peter Mack
- 'The Straw Bale House' - Steen, Steen and Bainbridge - 300+ pages covering all the aspects of strawbale construction. This book is filled with drawings, B &W and colour photos; the original 'bible' on strawbale building
Journals
- 'The Last Straw' - journal on strawbale construction, published in Arizona, United States and features latest construction ideas, concerns, thoughts, techniques and case studies.
