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Back Issues: 1999



Issue #24
Sustainability and the Building Codes
International Building Code
Why Even Bother With the Codes?
Australia's Performance-Based Codes
Letter From An Inspector
A Loan Appraisal Listing Strawbale As A "Special Feature"
Preliminary Structural Test Results
Strength-Testing of Veneered Strawbale Walls
Straw-Bale Arch Test
Lightning vs Stucco
Underground Bale-Umbrella
Basement Bale Walls
Fuel-Use Report: Mongolia
The Economics of Alternative Construction
The Wizard of Oz
Huntington Estate Pty Ltd
Pigs Might Fly
Strawbale In New Zealand
A Short List of Australian Practitioners
Baled Paper Blocks
Baled Kudzu
Applying Wood Moisture Meters To Strawbale
Long-Term Moisture Monitoring Results
Canadian Moisture Investigation Preliminary Results
Applying Soil Moisture Sensors To Strawbale
Eastwood Elementary Strawbale Toolshed Project
Exoskeletons, Corners, Compression, Outlets


Issue #25
Steve MacDonald/Frank Meyer Interview
A Simple Sturdy Privacy Wall
Elephant's Foot Grade Beam Wall System
Affordable Housing for Rosebud Reservation
2-String Load-Bearing System... On Edge
Load-Bearing Hybrid
Bearing Bale Building in BC
StrawCrafter's Wall System
Notes on Post-and-Beam Systems
Modified Post-and-Beam System
A Simple Rough-Buck Frame
Evolution of a Commercial System
A Steel-Frame Owner-Builder Kit System
Pre-Fab Steel Framing
Uhuru, Spirit House
Big Bale Big Barn
Caging A Straw-Bale Tiger
Straw-Bale Veneer Construction
Keyed Bale Frame System
BaleBlock (tm)
Kin 'Ship Blasts Off
Earth-Bags and Bales
A Straw-Clay Sandwich
CASBA Seismic Testing Program
Staple Pull-Out Resistance
Exterior Pinning Put To The Test
Habitat For Humanity West Conference
Ecomaterials in Castro's Cuba
Strawbale at The Smithsonian
The Holliday's House
The First Straw-Bale House in Romania
Steel and Straw Bales
Bamboo Architecture and The Possibilities
Bamboo Roof Trusses—A Philosophy
Bamboo Resources and Book Reviews


Issue #26
European Strawbale Scrapbook: Denmark, The Netherlands, Germany, France, England, Poland, Belarus, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Romania, Kosovo, Italy, Portugal, Austria, Belgium, Northern Ireland...
International Strawbale Conference
Rainscreen Siding
Lime Plaster
History of Cob
Cordwood Masonry
Thatching
Seaweed Roofs
Wattle-and-Daub


Issue #27
Annual Resources Issue: More reviews and resources than you can shake a stick at
Bau Biologie
Are Strawbale Homes Healthy?
Sick Building Syndrome
A Fungus Among Us
The Natural Step
Road to Right Livelihood
We Built Here Now
Colorado Natural Building Workshop



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