ESBG 2009 Belgium

ESBG 2009 from dobraidea on Vimeo.

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Some say it was one of the best, for sure it was one of the biggest: ESBG organised by CasaCalida in 2009.

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Visit of Herwig van Sooms (image below) straw bale house…

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Dirk Scharmer (FASBA) and René Dalmeijer (Strobouw Nederlands), in the back Sissy Hein (FASBA)…

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Gigi from CasaCalida on the stage…

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Kuba performing a practical workshop…

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Tom Rijven performing a CUT-workshop with earth-plaster (COB)

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Gernot Minke (DE), Richard Lacortiglia (Le Gabion, FR), Tom Rijven (NL) and Noé Solsana (FR) on the stage

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Noé performing a clay-plaster demonstration with a plaster-gun

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René Dalmeijer performing a simple fire test…

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Gernot Minke (DE, above), Zuzanna Kierulfova (ArTUR, SK) and Oliver (FASBA, DE) in straw-talks

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Rikki Nitzkin (ES) and Sissy Hein (FASBA, DE)

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Stefano Soldati (LaBoa, IT) and Cedric Hamelin (FR)

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David Eisenberg (DCAT, USA) as the guest in honour and CasaCalida as hosts

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Written by Herbert Gruber

Herbert is author of the book "Neues Bauen mit Stroh" (New Building with Straw), head of the austrian strawbale network ASBN and partner in the Leonardo-project "Strawbale Training for European Professionals (STEP). As a collector he documents European straw bale buildings since 1999 on his website (database, german), in lectures, workshops and books.

Website: http://www.baubiologie.at