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European Strawbuilding Association @eurostrawbuilding.bsky.social · Sep 25

#throwbackthursday

🌾 A week ago #ESBG2025 filled Barcelona with ideas, action + community.

Next stop: #isbc2027 🌍

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Cypren @mrcypren.bsky.social · Sep 17

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

🌾 Exciting days ahead!
#ESBG2025 #Strawbale #BiobasedConstruction

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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...

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European Strawbuilding Association @eurostrawbuilding.bsky.social · Aug 29

Introducing our ESBG 2025 speaker, from France, Charlotte Leuvard 🌾

As an architect, she is a project director for R&D for NEBRASKA, administrator of French Straw Bale Construction Network and a Board member of ESBA.

Tickets: lnkd.in/dhN-fsN5

18th - 21st September 2025 - Canet de Mar, Spain

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European Strawbuilding Association @eurostrawbuilding.bsky.social · Jul 30

At #ESBG2025, META2020 architects will show how prefabricated straw panels transformed a civic complex into a biobased nZEB 👷🏻‍♀️ 🏡

✅ proof that retrofit can lead the way

Early bird ticket closes today, register now: esbg2025.casasdepaja.org

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European Strawbuilding Association @eurostrawbuilding.bsky.social · Jul 22

🌾ESBG 2025:

18th - 21st Sept, near Barcelona.

French focus incl. Luc Floissac & NEBRASKA 🇫🇷.

Early bird ends 17 Aug

🎟️ lnkd.in/egSaTYca

[ESBG 2025] - 🌾🌍𝗟𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲́𝗲𝗻 𝗱𝗲 𝗹𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘂 𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗲𝗻… | French Straw Bale Construction Network

[ESBG 2025] - 🌾🌍𝗟𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲́𝗲𝗻 𝗱𝗲 𝗹𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘂 𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗲𝗻 𝗘𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗲, 𝗮̀ 𝟭𝗵 𝗱𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲 ! 🌾 European Straw Building Gathering 2025 (ESBG) 📅 18 au 21 ...

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European Strawbuilding Association @eurostrawbuilding.bsky.social · Jul 19

#retrofit #strawbuilding #biobased

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · Jan 18

It's so hardcore at the beginning, yet obvious and subtle in the end? I had to modernize my house like that as well. Haus Susch, a regenerative 🌾 #deeprenovation by Atelier Werner Schmidt 👏 Photos: Lucia Degonda / AWS
www.atelierschmidt.ch/sanierung-su... #strawhouse #strawbuilding #carbonstorage

Wooden boxes with angles for more light attached to the existing wall, windows moved forward to the insulation layer.

Really tight and overly thick; I guess 48cm straw bales, attached firmly on the wall,standing on a new foundatuon of gabions filled with crushed lime stone.

Finished rough lime plaster on the straw bale retrofitted house with metal roof and angled window openings looking gorgeous.

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European Strawbuilding Association @eurostrawbuilding.bsky.social · Jul 3

🌾 #throwbackthursday to STEP at ESBG Denmark 2023

Spain is next 🇪🇸

Early bird tickets on sale unti 18th July 2025

👉 esbg2025.casasdepaja.org

#esbg2025 #esba

European Strawbuilding Association @eurostrawbuilding.bsky.social · Jun 30

🌾 ESBG 2025 – Europe’s straw building event

📍 Canet de Mar, Barcelona

🗓️ 18 - 21 September

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT:
Book before 18 July for 10% discount

esbg2025.casasdepaja.org

#esbg2025 #ESBA #esbg2025 #reddeconstruccionconpaja #RCP #bioconstrucciones

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European Strawbuilding Association @eurostrawbuilding.bsky.social · Jun 25

🌾 For #ESBA members @ecococon.bsky.social, this new partnership with Ecological Building Systems is big news for UK + Irish markets 👏

🌍 Webinar tomorrow: webinar.ecococon.eu

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European Strawbuilding Association @eurostrawbuilding.bsky.social · Jun 23

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

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European Strawbuilding Association @eurostrawbuilding.bsky.social · Jun 13

🌾 4 straw houses, lunch included – tour takes place 21 Sept at

#ESBG2025 🏡

Hosted by @reddeconstruccionconpaja 🌞

Sign up now 👇

esbg2025.casasdepaja.org

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European Strawbuilding Association @eurostrawbuilding.bsky.social · Jun 3

👣 Tom Rijven – the CUT-technique pioneer – speaks at #esbg2025.

Shelter is a right.

Book now for early bird tickets!

🔗 Sign up: esbg2025.casasdepaja.org/es

#bioconstrucciones #tecnicasconstructivasnaturales

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Straw Building UK @strawbuildinguk.bsky.social · Jun 2

🌾 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

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European Strawbuilding Association @eurostrawbuilding.bsky.social · Jun 2

🎤 Designers, engineers & makers are gathering in Spain this Sept.

Full list now live: esbg2025.casasdepaja.org/speakers

#esbg2025 #bioconstrucciones

Speakers - European Straw Building Gathering 2025

Meet the Speakers & Workshop Leaders

esbg2025.casasdepaja.org

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European Strawbuilding Association @eurostrawbuilding.bsky.social · Jun 1

🙏 Sponsors of #esbg2025 include @ecococon.bsky.social + Eestimaaehitus and more!

🎟️ Tickets now open: esbg2025.casasdepaja.org/tickets

#arquitecturasostenible

European Strawbuilding Association @eurostrawbuilding.bsky.social · Jun 1

🏗️ Living in straw, wood & clay – four storeys high!
🎯 Save the Date: 29.06.2025
📍 Project Querbeet, Germany
🔍 Architect Dirk Scharmer brings natural building to scale.
www.instagram.com/reel/DJ1xAtH...

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European Strawbuilding Association @eurostrawbuilding.bsky.social · May 27

🌿 REGISTRATION OPEN

⬇⬇
Compra aquí tus entradas y consigue un 10% de descuento:
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esbg2025.casasdepaja.org/es/tickets
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FULL EVENT - 108€
Thurs, Fri & Sat, or purchase day tickets.

Discounts:

10% for early-bird (before 18th July)

#esbg2025 #RCP #bioconstrucciones #arquitecturasostenible #ESBA

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European Strawbuilding Association @eurostrawbuilding.bsky.social · May 15

🌾 REGISTRATION OPEN 🌾

#ESBG2025 co-hosted by RCP - Spanish Straw Building Network

📍 Spain
Theme: “Straw – an urgent way to a better today”

Low-emission buildings. Natural materials. Real change.

🔗 esbg2025.casasdepaja.org/es

#StrawBuilding #BiobasedConstruction #LowCarbonFuture #ESBA #RCP

European Strawbuilding Association @eurostrawbuilding.bsky.social · Apr 25

Straw + clay = clean, low-waste, circular.

A future not built on landfill.

www.createrra.no

#halmbygging #byggeprosess #esba

#strawbuilding #circularconstruction #zerowaste

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European Strawbuilding Association @eurostrawbuilding.bsky.social · Apr 24

Straw panels by @ecococon.bsky.social show how biobased can scale.
Modular, efficient, healthy 🌾
See them at Firhàbitat 25.
Bioconstruction, food trucks, and reddeconstruccionconpaja on home turf
Book now! www.firhabitat.com

#firhabitat25 #esba #Catalunya #naturalconstruction

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Straw Building UK @strawbuildinguk.bsky.social · Apr 22

Here at SBUK, Every Day Is #EarthDay

A timelapse from Wales – showing what low-impact, biobased construction looks like today, not tomorrow.

*Hawkland Constructions*
*Huff and Puff Constructions*
@ecococon.bsky.social

#biobased #plantbased #naturalmaterials

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · Apr 22

**Workshop**
Manchmal geht nur Innendämmung, manchmal auch nicht. Meist geht es aber richtig gut. Trotzdem traut sich fast niemand?
Vortragende mit jahrelanger Praxis.
Workshop für Akteur*innen des öffentlichen Bauens.
Lübeck 15.Mai 10-15
Bitte Mail mit Angabe der Organisation: [email protected]

Dämmmaterialien und Trockenbau aus nachwachsenden Rohstoffen.

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European Strawbuilding Association @eurostrawbuilding.bsky.social · Apr 17

Construction. Sustainably.

Naturetecture 🌾🏡👷‍♂️

#strawbuilding #biobased

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Agile Homes @agilehomes.bsky.social · Apr 17

🤫 Psst!
Did you know that the housing crisis continues unabated?
Are you up for being a bit radical?
Well, keep it quiet, but Radical might have to be the new normal!
But remember, the first Rule of Radical, is you do not talk about Radical!
Please, do not share!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/radical-ho...

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · Apr 17

You can touch this.
#strawhouse #timber #earth

People touching workshop made straw bale panels with clay plaster.

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