📍 Nantes, France | 2–6 Feb 2027 The quality of our conversations will help determine the quality of our solutions. More to come. #isbc2027
Cypren
@mrcypren.bsky.social
🏡 Built environment strategist 🌾 Chair of Straw Building UK 🌾 President of European Straw Building Association LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/4u5EZpQ https://cypren.carrd.co/
🌍 Discussions this week at #NationalEmergencyBriefing and #LCAW2026 returned repeatedly to the same challenge: turning ambition into action. That is why international collaboration matters. #climateaction
If you’re interested in straw building then subscribe to this - this one is the best edition and then some!
The Last Straw Magazine@thelaststrawmag.bsky.social · 3mo agoOur biggest issue yet (over 120 pages!) is available now! 🔥 🏠️ 🧱 Issue 77 looks to fire as a cause for concern, hope, and provocation; gathering voices that expand our understanding of how to shape buildings, energy, and daily life when the earth is the hottest it has ever been.
👀 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.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yHo... #strawbuilding #strawbalehouse #biobased #construction
Straw Building Today
The story of building with straw and why it can help cure the climate. Bruce King, of Ecological Building Network, explains how building with straw is a win-win-win solution for the built environment.
youtube.com
"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 👇🏾
European Strawbuilding Association@eurostrawbuilding.bsky.social · 5mo agoInterior earth plaster on straw bale walls 🌾 RFCP construction training to develop practical site skills – preparing straw bale walls and applying earth plaster for a strong internal finish. Modules www.rfcp.fr/modules-par-... Support www.organic-home.fr
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
Building Performance Evaluation: Achieving Better Outcomes
Guest editors: Bill Bordass, Paul Ruyssevelt & Fionn Stevenson
buildingsandcities.org
📆 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...
Our New Future: Redefining Risk, Resilience and Regeneration
Beyond Net Zero: who carries the risk, who builds the future, and how do we get there?
eventbrite.co.uk
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! ⬇️
Straw Building UK@strawbuildinguk.bsky.social · 6mo ago🌾 Accessible by Nature webinar 📊 14 months of monitored data from a lived-in straw bale home 📅 10th March 🕕 6 – 7.30pm 🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/accessible... #strawbuilding #strawbale #buildingperformance #naturalmaterials #lowcarbonconstruction
🪚 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: hello@touchwoodsouthwest.com #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
Why I’m building an office out of straw
Straw bales are a cheap building materials and they are great for insulation.
theconversation.com
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 ✅ 👇🏽
European Strawbuilding Association@eurostrawbuilding.bsky.social · 7mo ago🌾 Straw building training across Europe in 2026, from introductory courses to advanced professional programmes, delivered by ESBA members: strawbuilding.eu/about-esba/m... #education #strawbuilding #training #europe #cpd
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.
Straw Building UK (@strawbuildinguk.bsky.social)
🏆 Agreka Build, a Straw Building UK member, has been recognised by @innovateuk.bsky.social for work on resource-efficient construction. 🌾 A clear sign that biobased solutions are moving further…
bsky.app
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...
ASBP Healthy Buildings Conference 2026
The ASBP’s 10th Healthy Buildings Conference will feature a keynote from Professor Stephen Holgate, expert sessions on PFAS and POPs, WELL Building case studies, indoor air quality research and natura...
us5.campaign-archive.com
🌾 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...
#esbg2025 #esba | Cypren Edmunds 🌾🏡
Ahead of the start of the European Straw Building Gathering in Barcelona tomorrow, I was asked a simple question: why build with straw? I think my short answer does justice to such a big idea 🌾🏡 #ES...
linkedin.com
This case study is ground breaking You need to sign up to #SBUK2025 & hear about it directly from the team responsible Register now ⬇️
Straw Building UK@strawbuildinguk.bsky.social · 12mo ago🌿 Jonathan Davies joins #SBUK2025 with High Performance, Low Carbon: Parc y Rhodyn, the UK’s first off-grid Passivhaus, built with Huff & Puff Construction (UK) 🏡 Early bird tickets are available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-... #strawbuilding #biophilia
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 Building UK@strawbuildinguk.bsky.social · last yr.📢 Paul Crosby joins #SBUK2025! 🎤 Natural Architecture - Designing to a natural scale, specifying with nature in mind in heritage. 📅 4th November 2025 🎟 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-... #SBUK2025 #biophilia #naturalarchitecture #heritagearchitecture #strawbuilding #lowcarbonconstruction
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! 👇🏽
European Strawbuilding Association@eurostrawbuilding.bsky.social · last yr.At #ESBG2025, META2020 architects will show how prefabricated straw panels transformed a civic complex into a biobased nZEB 👷🏻♀️ 🏡 ✅ proof that retrofit can lead the way Early bird ticket closes today, register now: esbg2025.casasdepaja.org
📚 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
