Straw bale moisture testing

“稻草捆建筑是一种清洁、节能、低碳和坚固的建筑方法，在英国各地都在使用。该项目的目的是通过提高对必要措施的容忍度，使废旧秸秆成为一种可行的建筑材料，从而最大限度地利用废旧秸秆，使之标准化。为了用包建造，有必要了解它满足与这些因素有关的量化测量，重点是水分含量。这个问题限制了稻草房和房屋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。这也导致了成本的增加，因为房屋被视为非标准的建造方法，需要非标准的保险。Green&Castle对中小型建筑商进行的一项电话调查显示，承包商需要并渴望实现多元化，提高他们的技能和对更环保的方法和材料的认识，以便能够跟上着眼于2050年标准的主要房屋建筑商的步伐。通过测量和认证稻草库存中的参数，我们可以期待建立一个更容易被建筑法规签署的行业标准。而如果建筑法规能够批准这些建筑，那么就可以消除与“非标”建设有关的问题，并可以完成更多的秸秆结构。从长远来看，农业部门和建筑部门的合作将产生亟需的高质量住房和其他建筑，具有更低的排放量、更低的账单、更高的热舒适性和更好的福利性能。

"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.