ISBN: 9780976491118 Year Added to Catalog: 2007 Book Format: Paperback Book Art: illustrations, photographs, diagrams Number of Pages: 8 1/4 x 10 3/4, Book Publisher: Green Building Press Old ISBN: 0976491117 Release Date: September 15, 2006 Web Product ID: 174
For the first time, a design manual for practicing professionals, drawing on the collective experience of the most senior and respected figures in the rapidly-emerging field of straw bale construction.
This is the only book that provides truly useful information to architects, engineers, building officials and builders who want to design intelligently with plastered straw bales.
About the Author
Bruce King, P.E.
Bruce King is a registered structural engineer in private practice in San Rafael, California. He is the author of Buildings of Earth and Straw; Structural Design for Straw Bale and Rammed Earth Architecture (1996) and Design of Straw Bale Buildings; The State of the Art (2006). He is founder and director of the nonprofit Ecological Building Network and co-founder, with his wife Sarah Weller King, of Green Building Press. He lives in San Rafael, California. ...
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