[Greenbuilding] An Euro-shade of Green: Seven Storey Wood-framed Strawbale PassivHaus social housing

[Sacie Lambertson]

A'accord.

Really unattractive building.

When we lived in France in the early 70s we seriously wanted to bring back
one of the larger 40s looking Peugeots, but the rules for bringing such
back to the US were so stringent vis a vis catalytic controls we gave up
our effort.  Just too expensive.  But now it would be even neater to have a
little Deux Chevaux.  And today we might have afford it as well.  Tant
Pis.  Such is life.


On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:53 AM, RT <archilogic at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> Mon ami André de Bouter en France sent in the following to the Euro SB
> list and I thought it might be of interest to y'all.
>
> It's a seven-storey, wood-framed (6" thick cross-laminated timber (CLT)
> panels)structure insulated with 4'x8' x 16" pre-fab modular plywood-encased
> strawbale panels, designed to meet the PassiveHaus performance standard so
> that the predicted costs for HVAC & DHWH should not exceed 130 Euros/yr for
> the 900 sf units (see André's notes below).
>
> ================ copied material =========================
>
>  The prefab (modular strawbale) panels are made of Agepan DWD16
>> rigidified by wood 40X40mm (2x2's) glued and nailed
>>
>
>  Panels:
>> 2500X1250X400mm
>> 98.4"x49.2x15.7"
>>
>> Bales
>> 490X380X1200mm
>> 19.2x14.9x47.2"
>> Density (probably dry) 135kg/m3
>>
>
>  Primary wood structure
>> KLH-board 150mm (6 inch) cross laminated timber-box
>>
>
>  And a little correction : Acording to Passiv Haus standard (15
>> kWh/m2)this social housing should NOT exceed 130€ per year for
>> heating,cooling, ventilation and warm water costs for an appartment of
>> 90m²(about 900ft²).
>>
>
>    http://www.lamaisonenpaille.**com//div/projets%**
>> 20exemplaires/7-etages/7%**20etages.html<http://www.lamaisonenpaille.com//div/projets%20exemplaires/7-etages/7%20etages.html>
>>
>
> ============ end of copied material ================
>
> or if the above link gets mangled , the following Tiny URL
>
>        http://tinyurl.com/k8qlkdk
>
> Me ? I'm finding it difficult to like those  CLT panels and the
> plywood-encased SB modules but hey!, I would have said the same thing about
> the Citroën 2CV "aka "deux chevaux" (two horses) ~40 years ago when we boys
> liked 440 cu V-8 powered cars but today, older/wiser I'd jump at the chance
> to own a 2CV.   Interestingly enough, the French design for this building
> strikes me as being more like that old monster 440 c.i. v-8 than an
> elegantly simple Deux Chevaux.
> --
> === * ===
> Rob Tom                                 AOD257
> Kanata, Ontario, Canada
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