Joan and Greg Dyer will soon have the first house in Missouri built with prefabricated straw insulation — and no amount of huffing and puffing can knock it down. Building Integrity LLC, a ...

As first-time builders, they combined elements from various approaches ”“ a straw bale house with a gravel foundation ... The roof was built with repurposed wood insulated with sheep wool, covered ...

who designs straw-insulated homes and has done extensive energy modeling showing the advantages of straw. He recently analyzed the carbon emissions difference between standard construction and straw.

This year, straw from Lithuania will envelop a building in the quiet town of Todmorden, West Yorkshire. Barbara Jones and her colleagues at Todmorden Learning Centre and Community Hub have hatched ...

The little two-story house in Susan Klinker’s backyard ... the home’s walls are insulated with, yes, chopped straw — a building technique that the American Institute of Architects notes ...

[Photo: ©Forest Woodward/courtesy Patagonia] From the outside, this project looks no different from the other houses on the block. It was framed with wood, but insulated with two-foot-deep straw ...

A time-honored method of construction will find new expression as a Columbia building company shows off its home built of prefabricated straw bale panels. The house, which its builders believe is ...

“I knew I wanted to use this,” she said, gesturing to the straw insulated panels around her. “For me, this was non-negotiable.” Faulkner-Duncan had heard about straw insulation when it ...