University of Michigan Professor Joe Trumpey Shows How to Build a Straw-Bale Building
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- čas přidán 1. 07. 2017
- 22 undergraduates and one fearless leader used 200 bales of straw and some mud to build the University of Michigan's first off-the-grid, solar-powered building. Learn more: myumi.ch/6QwqO
Photo Images: Michigan Photography and Joe Trumpey
Finally college professor teaching something practical!!!
I would have went to college if this was my classroom, and that was my professor.
What a great professor. He is doing great work.
That wrap around porch will protect the exterior finish. Nice👍🏼
Respect y all folks!
Excellent work
I’m a mech eng - been reviewing sustainable building methods over the past few years - in our northern climate, straw bale is the best (IMO)
thank you for this
It's good to have a sawmill.
Thats cool
Cool teacher. Teaching things that you can use in life. I wonder how they feel about putting air ventilation through out the floor to push heat through the floor from in the house on a constant recycle. would it help keep the floors warm with just the heat from the house circulating though some large diam pvc though the floor?
awesome
I love the idea, I don't know if state regulations or even worse banks will approve of this construction method.
Good job!
Damn, this makes me want to go to MU.
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How is its fire resistance?
Can you cover the straw bale with wood shingles without plastering?
I have been reading and watching a lot about strawbale recently, I thought across all the different building materials where you use straw, cob, and other earthen materials it was important to have zero metal inside the walls because of condensation? Is that incorrect, or did yall do something to mitigate the issue?
I've wondered about using synthetic rubber or a polymer maybe that is long lasting and from a more renewable source and more bioequivalent, so seal the bales as well as hold the form maybe with some contribution to structure at least externally. Then using these as a building material. The paradigm of thinking is for the straw bales to last extremely longer in more extreme conditions and was thought about in regards to building underground structures maybe a decade back in my mind. In particular, using outside of a poured underground wall structure to help waterproof and insulate that footing and walls. I was thinking once the wall is sealed and the bales are stacked, another rubber or polymer coating can be sprayed on that so to have a Radon and moisture proof barrier for centuries.