Prefabricated Straw Bale Walls for Canada’s Greenest Home
This week the Endeavour class spent a day at the facilities of NatureBuilt Wall Systems, where we assisted with the construction of some of the S-SIP walls that will be used in Canada’s Greenest Home. The S-SIPs are largely identical to the load-bearing straw bale...
A Finished Durisol block foundation
The Endeavour class has completed the foundation for Canada’s Greenest Home. The crawlspace foundation is made with Durisol blocks (now called Nexcem). Durisol is an insulated concrete form (ICF) that uses waste wood chips in a cement slurry to form large blocks...