Defend The Forest!
Climate activists work to preserve a section of forest in Atlanta from becoming a new police training center
AnonymousApril 1, 2022
Making Better Buildings (Book Review)
Reviewed by Jeff Ruppert Making Better Buildings: A Comparative Guide to Sustainable Construction for Homeowners and Contractors by Chris Magwood will be released this Spring and promises to be one of the most valuable tools for the designer and builder who wants to understand how their choices of systems rank in terms of…
Jeff RuppertFebruary 8, 2014
Straw Bale and Building Science: Growing Up Together
Making Things Air-Tight The straw bale revival of the 1990s reintroduced builders to a pioneer building method that showed remarkable potential for building in a modern context. The nature of the basic components of a straw bale wall system – bales with plaster applied directly to bales – combined several…
Chris MagwoodNovember 22, 2013
Window Sill Details
This is a bonus post showing a couple examples of window sills on bale walls. Both examples incorporate a drip kerf for shedding water away from the wall. The first example below is on a Nebraska-Style structure in Colorado and the second example is in Siberia from our 2005 trip.…
The Last StrawSeptember 5, 2013
Finishing Bale Walls with Siding
A little known fact in the bale building realm is that a handful of people scattered across different continents have experimented with the idea of finishing their bale walls with wood or some type of manufactured siding. The technical term for siding over a bale wall assembly is a “rain…
Jeff RuppertAugust 29, 2013
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