“Nebraska 3.0”
Improvements to the Nebraska style over the years. Examples of ‘modern’ load-bearing buildings and how those were achieved, plus how to keep the building dry during construction, building the roof first, and how to be airtight without using sticky tape, and keeping it, as always, simple!
- 20 Sep 2025
- Expired!
- 10:40 - 11:00
- Barbara Jones
- https://schoolofnaturalbuilding.co.uk/
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Barbara is the founder of SNaB (@schoolofnaturalbuilding), and the UK’s preeminent straw-bale building authority. She has decades of experience in natural building including straw, clay, lime and cement-free foundations and works as a designer, builder and trainer. Her book, Building with Straw Bales; A Practical Manual for Self-Builders and Architects' is considered the essential guide to building with straw, and together with Eileen and others, wrote the Technical Guide to straw Construction in the UK. She is a Fellow of the RSA and has a Lifetime Achievement award, a Woman of Outstanding Achievement award, and was voted the most inspirational woman builder by the CIOB. She is a founder member of Tod College, a community owned and run learning hub, and host to many of SNaB’s activities. Barbara thinks she has the best job in the world!