Straw bale moisture testing

“稻草建筑是一种清洁，节能，低碳和强大的建筑方法，并在英国各地使用。该项目的目的是通过增加必要测量的公差来最大限度地利用废弃秸秆作为可行的建筑材料，以将秸秆捆包粉碎。为了建立与包，有必要了解，它符合定量测量与这些因素的重点是水分含量。这个问题限制了秸秆建筑和房屋的公认质量标志的发展，导致客户、开发商、保险公司和抵押贷款机构的信心下降。它还导致成本增加，因为房屋被视为非标准建筑方法，需要非标准保险。绿色和城堡对中小型建筑商的电话调查表明，承包商需要和希望多样化，并提高他们的技能和意识，采用更环保的方法和材料，以便能够跟上主要房屋建筑商的步伐，实现2050年的标准。通过测量和认证秸秆库存中的参数，我们可以寻求建立一个行业标准，可以更容易地签署了建筑法规。如果建筑法规可以批准建筑，那么与“非标准”建筑有关的问题就可以解决，更多的稻草结构就可以完成。从长远来看，农业和建筑部门的合作将产生急需的高质量住房和其他建筑物，这些建筑物具有较低的排放量、较低的费用、较高的热舒适度和较好的福利性质。

"Straw bale building is a clean, energy efficient, low carbon and robust method of construction and is in use across the UK. The aim of this project is to maximise the use of waste straw into a viable construction material by increasing the tolerance of necessary measurements to standardise the bales. In order to build with a bale it is necessary to understand that it meets a quantified measurement in relation to these factors with an emphasis on moisture content. This problem restricts the development of a recognised quality mark for straw bale buildings and houses which leads to reduced confidence from customers, developers, insurers and mortgage lenders alike. It also leads to increased costs as the houses are treated as a non-standard construction method and need non-standard insurance. A telephone survey of small to medium builders by Green & Castle has shown that there is a need and desire for contractors to both diversify and to increase their skills and awareness of more environmentally friendly methods and materials in order that the can keep up with the major house builders looking towards the 2050 standard.By measuring and certifying the parameters in a stock of straw, we can look to build an industry standard that can be more easily signed off by Building Regulations. And if building regulations can sign off the buildings, then issues related to ""non-standard"" construction can be dismissed, and more straw structures can be completed. Over the longer term the collaboration of the agricultural and construction sectors will produce much needed high quality housing and other buildings with lower emissions lower bills, higher thermal comfort and better well-being properties.