👀 This week, Ecococon presented the world’s tallest straw building in Malmö, Sweden - 12 storeys high. Look at those embodied carbon numbers! Changing the energy system alone isn’t enough if the UK wants to lower emissions. We need to build differently too. #strawbuilding #embodiedcarbon

🟠 “If this is one way we can provide a positive solution… let’s get on with it.” 
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#strawbuilding #strawbalehouse #biobased #construction

"Are you advocating for, or at least experimenting with, biobased materials?" www.linkedin.com/posts/cypren... #construction #biobased

🌾 Straw insulation delivered as a complete wall system 🧱 Paired with lime for stable, vapour-open performance 🏠 Practical, site-ready thinking from SSH Boards 🔗 szalmapaplan.hu #biobased #strawconstruction #limeplaster #naturalmaterials #buildingperformance #esba

One to watch. The ‘Biobased Insulation Deal’ brings property maintenance companies together to insulate homes at scale using biobased materials. A reference point for the current focus on standardisation and implementation from Province of South Holland. www.zuid-holland.nl/actueel/nieu...

Six short training sessions in France: 🔸1-3 days 🔸March - April 👇🏾

Tipping Point East launched recently as a new space for exchange on culture, place and climate. One to watch as its programme and conversations develop. www.tippingpointeast.com #builtenvironment #skills #design #london

📊 Evidence on how buildings actually perform in use matters more than ever. ⏳ Final call for BPE abstracts ⏰ deadline 23rd March

📆 Thursday 12th March 🌍 Most places we live and work already exist. That should change how we approach risk, resilience and regeneration. ➡️ New Future 📍Glasgow 🎙️ I’m representing STBA. Book now. 🎟 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/our-new-fu...

You’ve just built your fantastically brilliant house. But does it perform as intended? Post Occupancy Evaluation, POE, is the process designers use to measure how a building actually works once people are living in it. Curious? Sign up now! ⬇️

🪚 Skilled carpenter, joiner or furniture maker? 🌿 Freelance Lead Course Tutor role in Devon, flexible teaching with paid training. £25 per hour teaching, £17 per hour training. Apply: [email protected] #carpentry #joinery #furnituremaker #construction #genderequality

From a garden office in Sheffield to a market cold room in Kenya, straw applied in very different contexts. theconversation.com/why-im-build... #construction #strawbuilding #biobasedmaterials #embodiedcarbon #bioeconomy

Marchants Hill. Lichen on birch. Growing only where atmosphere and conditions still allow quiet things to survive. #cleanair #climate #nature #guildford

Sign up for #learning sessions across Europe for early 2026 ✅ 👇🏽

Living and working in London, Paris Biobased is a useful reference point for how coherence drives progress in biobased construction. parisbiobased.eu #biobased #esba

Straw construction takes a visible place in Innovate UK’s latest awards through Agreka Build.

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 us5.campaign-archive.com?u=c613327e65...

🌾 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

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...

This case study is ground breaking You need to sign up to #SBUK2025 & hear about it directly from the team responsible Register now ⬇️

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.

🎤 Designing with nature in mind, at a scale that feels human again. Paul Crosby joins #SBUK2025 🌱

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

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! 👇🏽

📚 Still proud of this. 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

❗️Deadline this Friday living-future.eu/biophilia-su... #biophilia

Insulate from this.

🎉 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

🌾 44 homes insulated with blowing straw – grown, harvested & installed in Salland. 🏡 Biobased is real. 📣 Time to scale up. #strawinsulation #biobased

Avoid disappointment and get your tickets now 😉

Indeed: for a big ray of hope, see how creative we can all be and have a go! 👇 😎🔆

🌾 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

🙂 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...

🌾 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

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

Nature builds better 🏡 Supported by: ✅ @ecococon.bsky.social ✅ Ecological Building Systems Join SBUK in Swansea 25th - 26th June - two days of straw 🌾 structure 🏗️ and soul ✨ eventbrite.co.uk/e/1360500847659/

🗣️ Open Day 📆 19th May This strawbale building was featured in one of our webinars by the directors of Hawkland. Do not miss the chance to: 🏗️ See the build – ‘live & direct’ 🤝 Meet the design & build team 📩 Contact: [email protected] #strawbalebuilding #biobased #construction #architecture

SBUK's Wednesday Webinars These lunchtime sessions are pure gold! The topics discussed are the current talking points! The level of expertise is second to none! Sign up & tune in: Wednesday 1300 BST / 1400 CET www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-an-eco...

📍 15 listed buildings. 2200m² straw roof. 79 new homes. 🌿 Vlaardingen shows what is possible. More: fullhousevastgoed.nl/en/news/start…#biobasedconstructiono#blowninstrawaw

🔥 Date for your diary next week: 📆 Wed 30th April ⏰ 1pm - 2pm BST Don't miss out! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-an-eco...

🤫 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...

🏛️ @oecd-ocde.bsky.social Urban Studies 🌍 OECD’s most recent report backs whole life carbon logic 📖 Zero Carbon Buildings in Cities: A Whole Life‑Cycle Approach 🌾 Straw must now be treated as a core component of building decarbonisation 🔗 Read my opinion piece: mcusercontent.com/19a5a8360ca7...

In Spain over the weeks & want to learn #biobased construction? Go visit Rioja for these practical workshops 🌾👷🪵 Get a taste of what's to come in September's #ESBG2025

Grab that Saturday morning coffee ☕️ And tune in to that straw construction webinar 🌾 📻 Geek out 🤓

Well done Marina! This is the kind of work that shifts perspectives early – natural building as part of how we imagine the world, not just how we build it 🌍 bit.ly/4hqyOoW #education

Podcast alert 🎧 Interviewed by Matt Molloy (Refurb or Retrofit): Tracey Emin, insulation, politics, mould-free bedrooms, smugness. Unrelated? Think again! Straw 🌾 Listen: podcasts.castplus.fm/e/183m33k8 #strawbuilding #construction #damp #socialhousing #community #artists