Straw Building UK

Do insurers like sustainable builds?! Nobody wants to get to the end of a project and then struggle to get their new home insured. So find out how the whole game works with Dr. James Glockling.

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#SelfBuild #Housing #NewHome

🌾 Accessible by Nature webinar

📊 14 months of monitored data from a lived-in straw bale home

📅 10th March
🕕 6 – 7.30pm

🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/accessible...

#strawbuilding #strawbale #buildingperformance #naturalmaterials #lowcarbonconstruction

ASBP Material Mornings – Natural Fibre Insulation Join the ASBP for the first edition of our new Material Mornings series of informal online drop-in ‘surgery’ sessions.

🌿 @asbpuk.bsky.social Material Mornings launches with a session on Natural Fibre Insulation.

📅 Thu 12th Feb 2026, 11:00 - 12:00, online.

🧰 Live, surgery-style discussion.

🔗 asbp.org.uk/events/material-mornings-nfi

#biobasedmaterials #naturalbuilding #insulation #construction

#education #strawbuilding #biobasedconstruction #training #skills #europe #esba | European Straw Building Association 🌾 European Straw Building Association is the home for straw building in europe, and as the year gets underway we are sharing training opportunities for those looking to build skills and capacity in st...

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🏆 Agreka Build, a Straw Building UK member, has been recognised by @innovateuk.bsky.social for work on resource-efficient construction.

🌾 A clear sign that biobased solutions are moving further into the mainstream.

www.agrekabuild.com

#biobasedmaterials #innovationuk

📗 Build It’s December issue includes a feature on straw and low-impact construction

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#strawconstruction #biobasedmaterials

ASBP Healthy Buildings Conference 2026 The ASBP’s 10th Healthy Buildings Conference will feature a keynote from Professor Stephen Holgate, expert sessions on PFAS and POPs, WELL Building case studies, indoor air quality research and natura...

General sales now open for ASBP’s 2026 Healthy Buildings Conference!

Book now to avoid disappointment.

Only a limited number of tickets are available.

@asbpuk.bsky.social

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#esbg2025 #esba | Cypren Edmunds 🌾🏡 Ahead of the start of the European Straw Building Gathering in Barcelona tomorrow, I was asked a simple question: why build with straw? I think my short answer does justice to such a big idea 🌾🏡 #ES...

This week in Barcelona: Europe’s leading straw builders, designers + manufacturers meet for #ESBG2025

🌾 Exciting days ahead!
#ESBG2025 #Strawbale #BiobasedConstruction

www.linkedin.com/posts/cypren...

We welcome Clara Koehler to #SBUK2025 🎉

Her talk on biobased materials + net zero shows how you can cut carbon & also why wider changes in how we build are essential.

📅 4th Nov | NSBRC, Swindon

➡ Get your early bird tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-...

#SBUK2025 #biophilia

🌾 Wheat or rice?

🎤 Dr Judith Thornton asks what straw we should build with and why it matters.

Early bird tickets are available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-...

#SBUK2025 @ukceh.bsky.social

In-person events/training by our Members asbp.org.uk/partner-memb...

28-29 Aug 2025. A 2-day course on lime by Ty-Mawr, Wales.

28 Aug 2025. Ask the Ecological Building Systems experts, Swindon.

3-7 Sept 2025. A @schoolofnatbuild.bsky.social 5-day practical straw bale building course in Devon.

🌿 Jonathan Davies joins #SBUK2025 with High Performance, Low Carbon: Parc y Rhodyn, the UK’s first off-grid Passivhaus, built with Huff & Puff Construction (UK) 🏡

Early bird tickets are available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-...

#strawbuilding #biophilia

📢 Paul Crosby joins #SBUK2025!
🎤 Natural Architecture - Designing to a natural scale, specifying with nature in mind in heritage.
📅 4th November 2025
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#SBUK2025 #biophilia #naturalarchitecture #heritagearchitecture #strawbuilding #lowcarbonconstruction

🌾 80% energy savings with straw

META2020 retrofit the University of Burgos into an nZEB.

Visit Spain and hear META2020’s story and, many speakers at #ESBG2025

esbg2025.casasdepaja.org

#ESBA #biobased #retrofit

📊 14 months of IEQ data in a straw bale home in England.
🌬️ No MVHR. No overheating.

Read the paper: sciexplor.com/articles/jbd...

👏 Congrats Janice A. Foster, Filbert Musau, Barbara Jones & Sam Foster

#sbuk #ieq #naturalbuilding

🌾 Tangent alert: straw is not a waste product - it's a co-product.
📊 That difference matters for carbon accounting.
🧱 We explore it at the SBUK Symposium 2025.

🎟️ Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-...

#sbuk2025 #biophilia #biobasedmaterials

UP STRAW laid the foundations. Now we build.

400+ straw building resources from across the world:

📚 Zotero archive → vb.nweurope.eu/projects/pro...

📍 4th November | NSBRC Swindon

🎟️ SBUK Symposium 2025
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#SBUK2025 #biophilia #tuesdaythoughts

#retrofit #strawbuilding #biobased

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Hear about Denmark’s successful Reduction Roadmap #EmbodiedCarbon Story. Could #PartZ do the same for the UK?

Webinar recording now available: asbp.org.uk/webinar-reco...

With Reduction Roadmap’s Fabian Lecker & Sinus Lynge of EFFEKT Architects; and Part Z’s Tim den Dekker & Will Arnold.

Building with straw?

Explore our guide for advice, case studies, and planning help.

Members can help you take the next step.

www.strawbuildinguk.org/self-build

📷 Mike Penfold
#biophilia #strawbuild #selfbuild

🎉 NSBRC is now a certified B Corp.

📍 They will host the SBUK Symposium on 4 November - a full day on biophilia and natural materials.

🎟️ Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-...

🤝 Platinum sponsors: @ecococon.bsky.social Ecological Building Systems

#SBUK2025 #biophilia #biobasedmaterials

Congratulations 🎉🌾🏡

🎉 #SBUK2025 is live!
📍 4 Nov @ NSBRC Swindon
🌿 Biobased futures, 10 years strong
🎟️ Tickets now open. Let’s build what’s next.
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🤝 Platinum Sponsors: Ecococon + EBS, now one team UK & Ireland.

#SBUK2025 #biobasedmaterials #architecture #retrofit #construction

If you can make it, be there tomorrow 🌾

Spotlight on European Straw Building Gathering 2025 Speakers!

Founder of @schoolofnatbuild.bsky.social & founding member of SBUK, Barbara Jones is a presenting at #esbg2025

Early Bird tickets are here: esbg2025.casasdepaja.org

#ESBA #reddeconstruccionconpaja #RCP #bioconstrucciones

YouTube video by Straw Building UK StrawBale UK online event Old Holloway George Mikurcik Feb 2023

Back in 2023 he talked about his straw + passivhaus with us. Watch it again, here: youtu.be/G8Bx82R2DbY?...

#throwbackthursday

A straw-insulated home does not need to shout - it simply feels right.

@jurajmikurcik.bsky.social’s home holds steady at 21°C even in a heatwave.

Visit a Passivhaus near you during their Open Days later this month: www.passivhaustrust.org.uk/event_detail...

🌾 Wellspring’s school project in London shows how straw is reshaping public architecture - quietly, beautifully.

🏫 Heathland School Wellbeing Centre

🔗 www.wellspringarchitecture.co.uk/heathland-sc...

#sbuk #strawbuilding #biobasedmaterials #publicarchitecture #ESBA

📣 SBUK Symposium is now postponed

New date coming soon 🌾

Thanks for your patience 🙏

More updates soon!

🗣️ Talks. 🌾 Straw. 🏡🏗️ Construction.

SBUK Symposium hits Swansea 25th - 26th June 2025

Book your place now!

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