Summaries for Category Construction Materials

Gibson, A. G., Insulating board from straw. Industrial and EngineeringChemistry 22: 223-226, 1930.

W. H. G., I/EC reports & interprets. A dramatic new "home-grown"building material will solve South Korea's housing problems. Industrialand Engineering Chemistry: 52: 28A-29A, 1960.

Doolittle, B., A round house of straw bales. Mother Earth News 19: 52-57, 1973.

Singh, S. M., Agro-industrial wastes and their utilization. Research andIndustry 19: 159-162, 1974.

Mobarak, F., Nada, A.-A. M., and Y. Fahmy, Fibreboard from exoticraw materials. I. Hardboard from rice straw pulps. J. appl. Chem.Biotechnol. 25: 653-658, 1975.

Fadl, N. A., Sefain, M. Z., and M. Rakha, Effect of thermal treatment onEgyptian rice straw hardboard. J. appl. Chem. Biotechnol. 27: 93-98,1977.

McElderry, W. and C. McElderry, Happiness is a hay house. MotherEarth News 58: 41-43, 1979.

Bainbridge, D. A., High performance low cost buildings of straw.Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 16: 281-284, 1986.

Johnson, D., Old tricks work with new bale shapes. The Dakota Farmer108: 34-35, 1990.

Myhrman, M., Hay, Hay! Could this be the answer to the housingproblem? Green Revolution 47: 1-3, 1990.

Sutigno H. and P. Sutigno, The manufacturing of several non-woodbio-composites. Pacific Rim Bio-Based Composites Symposium, pp. 312-319, New Zealand, November, 1992.

Hawes, Mark, Straw and solar: a perfect renewable match. HomePower #35, pp. 62-66, June/July, 1993.

Bainbridge, D. A., Plastered straw bale construction: A waste to aresource. Sustainable Agriculture 5, Spring, 1993.

Everett, G., Straw Homes. Mother Earth News 140: 54-57, 75-76,1993.

Halliman, L., Straw bale construction: try huffing and puffing thesehouses down. Earth Times, October, 1994.

Hanford, J., Energy savings with straw bale construction. BuildingEnergy Analysis Group, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Issue #7, June,1994.

O'Donahue, J., Green building. Straw, sweet straw. The Bear Essential#3, pp 5-11, September, 1994.

Steen, A. S., Steen, B., Bainbridge, D., and D. Eisenberg, The strawbale house. Chelsea Green, White River Junction, Vermont, 1994.

Kemble, S., How to build your elegant home with straw bales manual: aguide for the owner-builder. Sustainable Systems Support, Version 1.0,January, 1995.

Anonymous, Wheat-straw particleboard. Environmental Building News4: 1-2, 1995.

Anonymous, House of straw - straw bale construction comes of age. U. S.Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, April, 1995.

U. S. Department of Energy, House Straw, Energy Efficiency andRenewable Energy, DOE/G010094-01, April, 1995.

Anonymous, Straw bale buildings. Home Energy, Vol. 13, 1996.

Eisenberg, D., Lorenzini, J, and T. Hahn, eds., The Last Straw, Issue No. 14,Spring, 1996.

Martinez, A., Straw bale construction: an update, Earth Times, May,1996.

Anonymous, Rice straw composition board, Investmart '97, MetroManila, Phillipines, Project No.: 043, June 2-4, 1997.

Gabrukiewicz, T., Businessman's rice straw coffins designed forecologically correct. The Sacramento Bee, Dec. 8, 1997.

Anonymous, Rice straw composition board, United Nations IndustrialDevelopment Organization, Project Number: 043, August 27, 1997.

Hahn, T., editor, The Last Straw, Issue #19, Summer, 1997.

Hahn, T., editor, The Last Straw, Issue #18, Spring, 1997.

Hahn, T., editor, The Last Straw, Issue No. 17, Winter, 1997.

Anonymous, The straw bale house at Swarthmore College. SwarthmoreCollege, Engineering Department, May, 1997.

Myhrman, M. and S. O. MacDonald, Build it with bales. A step-by-stepguide to straw-bale construction, version two, Out on Bale, Tucson, 1997.

Staniforth, A. R., Cereal Straw, pp. 89-168, Clarendon, Oxford, 1979.

Chawla, J. S., Utilization of lignocellulosic wastes for pulp and boards.Proc. RRAI Symp; PAU, Ludhiana, pp. 39-56, 1980.

Anonymous, Rice straw for paper and panel products. Research Staff ofthe Forest Products Research and Development Institute at Laguna,Lecture Handout, Orientation cum Training Program on Improving theIncome and Employment of Rice Farming Systems, IRRI, pp. 1-8,1985.

 
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