The largest strawbale building yet built
in the UK, using our very latest design technique that we
call compressive frame, whereby the roof structure is lowered
onto the straw walls once all the straw is
in place, thus adding the advantages of a loadbearing structure
to a framework building.
The building is for Sworders Ltd, a
Fine-Art Auctioneers based in Essex, who want a sustainable
building for their own offices and show premises. As well
as strawbale walls, this building will have rainwater catchment,
solar water heating, bio-mass space heating and lime rendered
walls.