In addition to the links above, DCAT is developing an interface
and collecting content for our resource section that will
make large amounts of information available easily. We plan
to launch this area sometime in the fall of 2002. One of the
elements of this section will be information and resource
links for alternative building materials and systems, such
as those below:
Straw Bale Building Systems
Codes
Austin Straw Bale
Code download
as Acrobat .pdf (20K)
Boulder Straw Bale Code
download
as Acrobat .pdf (16K)
California Straw Bale Code
download
as Acrobat .pdf (20K)
Tucson/Pima County SB Code
download
as Acrobat .pdf (24K)
Tucson/Pima County Earthen Code
download
as Acrobat .pdf (52K)
Testing
Pilot
Study of Moisture Control in Stuccoed Straw Bale Walls
ASTM E-119 Small Scale
Fire Test (New Mexico) (264K)
ASTM
E84-98 Surface Burning Characteristics report (452K)
click here
if you need to get Adobe Acrobat to read PDFs.)
Earthen Building Systems
Under construction.
Building With Bamboo
Under construction.
Other Building Systems
Under construction.
|