Cypren
@mrcypren.bsky.social
🌿 Biobased building materials strategist
🏡 Heritage building advocate
🌾 Chair of Straw Building UK
🌾 President of European Straw Building Association
https://cypren.carrd.co/
🏡 Heritage building advocate
🌾 Chair of Straw Building UK
🌾 President of European Straw Building Association
https://cypren.carrd.co/
Living and working in London, Paris Biobased is a useful reference point for how coherence drives progress in biobased construction.
parisbiobased.eu
#biobased #esba
parisbiobased.eu
#biobased #esba
December 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Living and working in London, Paris Biobased is a useful reference point for how coherence drives progress in biobased construction.
parisbiobased.eu
#biobased #esba
parisbiobased.eu
#biobased #esba
Straw construction takes a visible place in Innovate UK’s latest awards through Agreka Build.
Straw Building UK (@strawbuildinguk.bsky.social)
🏆 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…
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December 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Straw construction takes a visible place in Innovate UK’s latest awards through Agreka Build.
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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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Book now to avoid disappointment.
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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...
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December 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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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Book now to avoid disappointment.
Only a limited number of tickets are available.
@asbpuk.bsky.social
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🌾 A recent Vakgroep Strobouw visit included three biobased projects in the Achterhoek, including the retreat centre ‘the place to – Be’ on the Slangenburg estate.
#strawbuilding #esba
#strawbuilding #esba
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
🌾 A recent Vakgroep Strobouw visit included three biobased projects in the Achterhoek, including the retreat centre ‘the place to – Be’ on the Slangenburg estate.
#strawbuilding #esba
#strawbuilding #esba
This week in Barcelona: Europe’s leading straw builders, designers + manufacturers meet for #ESBG2025
🌾 Exciting days ahead!
#ESBG2025 #Strawbale #BiobasedConstruction
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🌾 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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September 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This week in Barcelona: Europe’s leading straw builders, designers + manufacturers meet for #ESBG2025
🌾 Exciting days ahead!
#ESBG2025 #Strawbale #BiobasedConstruction
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🌾 Exciting days ahead!
#ESBG2025 #Strawbale #BiobasedConstruction
www.linkedin.com/posts/cypren...
This case study is ground breaking
You need to sign up to #SBUK2025 & hear about it directly from the team responsible
Register now ⬇️
You need to sign up to #SBUK2025 & hear about it directly from the team responsible
Register now ⬇️
🌿 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
Early bird tickets are available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-...
#strawbuilding #biophilia
August 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This case study is ground breaking
You need to sign up to #SBUK2025 & hear about it directly from the team responsible
Register now ⬇️
You need to sign up to #SBUK2025 & hear about it directly from the team responsible
Register now ⬇️
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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.
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.
August 27, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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.
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.
📢 Paul Crosby joins #SBUK2025!
🎤 Natural Architecture - Designing to a natural scale, specifying with nature in mind in heritage.
📅 4th November 2025
🎟 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-...
#SBUK2025 #biophilia #naturalarchitecture #heritagearchitecture #strawbuilding #lowcarbonconstruction
🎤 Natural Architecture - Designing to a natural scale, specifying with nature in mind in heritage.
📅 4th November 2025
🎟 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-...
#SBUK2025 #biophilia #naturalarchitecture #heritagearchitecture #strawbuilding #lowcarbonconstruction
August 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Straw is a co-product.
This matters when you’re counting carbon.
🎥 and this clip of 1 min 20 sec. says it all:
We will go further at the SBUK Symposium 2025.
Details & tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-...
#sbuk2025 #biobasedmaterials #epd #biophilia #construction #lowcarbon
This matters when you’re counting carbon.
🎥 and this clip of 1 min 20 sec. says it all:
We will go further at the SBUK Symposium 2025.
Details & tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-...
#sbuk2025 #biobasedmaterials #epd #biophilia #construction #lowcarbon
August 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Straw is a co-product.
This matters when you’re counting carbon.
🎥 and this clip of 1 min 20 sec. says it all:
We will go further at the SBUK Symposium 2025.
Details & tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-...
#sbuk2025 #biobasedmaterials #epd #biophilia #construction #lowcarbon
This matters when you’re counting carbon.
🎥 and this clip of 1 min 20 sec. says it all:
We will go further at the SBUK Symposium 2025.
Details & tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-...
#sbuk2025 #biobasedmaterials #epd #biophilia #construction #lowcarbon
Last ESBG event (2023) there was a presentation about a public swimming pool, retrofitted with straw.
At this year’s #ESBG2025 META2020 will demonstrate, again, how 80% of energy savings will be made using straw as a construction material to retrofit their site.
Get your ticket! 👇🏽
At this year’s #ESBG2025 META2020 will demonstrate, again, how 80% of energy savings will be made using straw as a construction material to retrofit their site.
Get your ticket! 👇🏽
July 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Last ESBG event (2023) there was a presentation about a public swimming pool, retrofitted with straw.
At this year’s #ESBG2025 META2020 will demonstrate, again, how 80% of energy savings will be made using straw as a construction material to retrofit their site.
Get your ticket! 👇🏽
At this year’s #ESBG2025 META2020 will demonstrate, again, how 80% of energy savings will be made using straw as a construction material to retrofit their site.
Get your ticket! 👇🏽
📚 Still proud of this.
UP STRAW laid the ground - #ESBG2025 & #SBUK2025 builds from it.
→ @strawbuildinguk.bsky.social
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#upstraw #biophilia #throwbackthursday
UP STRAW laid the ground - #ESBG2025 & #SBUK2025 builds from it.
→ @strawbuildinguk.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/stra...
#upstraw #biophilia #throwbackthursday
July 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
📚 Still proud of this.
UP STRAW laid the ground - #ESBG2025 & #SBUK2025 builds from it.
→ @strawbuildinguk.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/stra...
#upstraw #biophilia #throwbackthursday
UP STRAW laid the ground - #ESBG2025 & #SBUK2025 builds from it.
→ @strawbuildinguk.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/stra...
#upstraw #biophilia #throwbackthursday
🇫🇷 France includes sequestered carbon in building regulation (RE2020) & has built over 10,000 straw buildings to date.
The UK still lacks regulation on #embodiedcarbon & #biobased materials are left out of policy, finance & scale.
Support Part Z: www.part-z.uk/support-part-z
#partz
The UK still lacks regulation on #embodiedcarbon & #biobased materials are left out of policy, finance & scale.
Support Part Z: www.part-z.uk/support-part-z
#partz
July 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🇫🇷 France includes sequestered carbon in building regulation (RE2020) & has built over 10,000 straw buildings to date.
The UK still lacks regulation on #embodiedcarbon & #biobased materials are left out of policy, finance & scale.
Support Part Z: www.part-z.uk/support-part-z
#partz
The UK still lacks regulation on #embodiedcarbon & #biobased materials are left out of policy, finance & scale.
Support Part Z: www.part-z.uk/support-part-z
#partz
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Insulate from this.
July 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Insulate from this.
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🎉 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
📍 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
July 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🎉 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
📍 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
🌾 44 homes insulated with blowing straw – grown, harvested & installed in Salland.
🏡 Biobased is real.
📣 Time to scale up. #strawinsulation #biobased
🏡 Biobased is real.
📣 Time to scale up. #strawinsulation #biobased
🌾 𝗩𝗮𝗻 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱: 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗲𝗶𝘁! | Biobased Salland
🌾 𝗩𝗮𝗻 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱: 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗲𝗶𝘁! Wat een mijlpaal! In Salland laten we zien dat biobased isoleren met…
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July 5, 2025 at 6:01 AM
🌾 44 homes insulated with blowing straw – grown, harvested & installed in Salland.
🏡 Biobased is real.
📣 Time to scale up. #strawinsulation #biobased
🏡 Biobased is real.
📣 Time to scale up. #strawinsulation #biobased
Avoid disappointment and get your tickets now 😉
🎉 #SBUK2025 is live!
📍 4 Nov @ NSBRC Swindon
🌿 Biobased futures, 10 years strong
🎟️ Tickets now open. Let’s build what’s next.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-...
🤝 Platinum Sponsors: Ecococon + EBS, now one team UK & Ireland.
#SBUK2025 #biobasedmaterials #architecture #retrofit #construction
📍 4 Nov @ NSBRC Swindon
🌿 Biobased futures, 10 years strong
🎟️ Tickets now open. Let’s build what’s next.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-...
🤝 Platinum Sponsors: Ecococon + EBS, now one team UK & Ireland.
#SBUK2025 #biobasedmaterials #architecture #retrofit #construction
July 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Avoid disappointment and get your tickets now 😉
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Indeed: for a big ray of hope, see how creative we can all be and have a go!
👇 😎🔆
👇 😎🔆
If you need a mental break, go check out the thousands upon thousands of drawings of beautiful drawings of the sun at the SunDay website--and add one yourself!
sunday.earth/gallery
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July 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Indeed: for a big ray of hope, see how creative we can all be and have a go!
👇 😎🔆
👇 😎🔆
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🌾 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
📍 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
June 30, 2025 at 6:30 AM
🌾 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
📍 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
🙂 Great news for UK’s construction sector 👇🏽
🌾 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
🌍 Webinar tomorrow: webinar.ecococon.eu
June 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
🙂 Great news for UK’s construction sector 👇🏽
Reflecting on recent talks, debate and action.
Critically, a forthcoming date for your diary, 1st July, does all three for the UK’s built environment.
@asbpuk.bsky.social
asbp.org.uk/events/reduc...
Critically, a forthcoming date for your diary, 1st July, does all three for the UK’s built environment.
@asbpuk.bsky.social
asbp.org.uk/events/reduc...
June 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Reflecting on recent talks, debate and action.
Critically, a forthcoming date for your diary, 1st July, does all three for the UK’s built environment.
@asbpuk.bsky.social
asbp.org.uk/events/reduc...
Critically, a forthcoming date for your diary, 1st July, does all three for the UK’s built environment.
@asbpuk.bsky.social
asbp.org.uk/events/reduc...
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🌾 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
🏫 Heathland School Wellbeing Centre
🔗 www.wellspringarchitecture.co.uk/heathland-sc...
#sbuk #strawbuilding #biobasedmaterials #publicarchitecture #ESBA
June 2, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🌾 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
🏫 Heathland School Wellbeing Centre
🔗 www.wellspringarchitecture.co.uk/heathland-sc...
#sbuk #strawbuilding #biobasedmaterials #publicarchitecture #ESBA
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🎤 Designers, engineers & makers are gathering in Spain this Sept.
Full list now live: esbg2025.casasdepaja.org/speakers
#esbg2025 #bioconstrucciones
Full list now live: esbg2025.casasdepaja.org/speakers
#esbg2025 #bioconstrucciones
Speakers - European Straw Building Gathering 2025
Meet the Speakers & Workshop Leaders
esbg2025.casasdepaja.org
June 2, 2025 at 7:02 AM
🎤 Designers, engineers & makers are gathering in Spain this Sept.
Full list now live: esbg2025.casasdepaja.org/speakers
#esbg2025 #bioconstrucciones
Full list now live: esbg2025.casasdepaja.org/speakers
#esbg2025 #bioconstrucciones
You don’t need to believe in #biophilia or understand it to value comfort, air quality, & low bills.
Straw & other biobased building materials are not alternatives - they are fundamentals.
Good materials speak for themselves.
Join in the conversation: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1360500847...
#SBUK2025
Straw & other biobased building materials are not alternatives - they are fundamentals.
Good materials speak for themselves.
Join in the conversation: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1360500847...
#SBUK2025
May 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
You don’t need to believe in #biophilia or understand it to value comfort, air quality, & low bills.
Straw & other biobased building materials are not alternatives - they are fundamentals.
Good materials speak for themselves.
Join in the conversation: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1360500847...
#SBUK2025
Straw & other biobased building materials are not alternatives - they are fundamentals.
Good materials speak for themselves.
Join in the conversation: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1360500847...
#SBUK2025