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Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 June 2008
Todmorden Strawbale training centre
first course
Participants from as close as Manchester and as far away as Egypt took part in the first seminar to be staged at a new specialist strawbale building seminar and training centre
The new facility in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, has been opened by amazonails, the UK's leading centre of strawbale expertise and strawbale co-designers and consultants for the Grand Designs Eco-home of the year 2008 The new centre, with space of 3,800 sqft, is within the historic Hope Mill, where amazonails has its offices and computer aided design centre
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 30 Jan 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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It is completely under cover and so will allow seminars and practical building and plastering courses to be run whatever the weather.
A complete house could be built within the centre if necessary.
The first event was a half-day introductory seminar.
Participants learned about the history of strawbale building, the ecological and community benefits of this method of construction, amazonails 13 year history encompassing over 100 buildings, including the UK's largest, and iconic structures such as the National Trust Footprint project at Windermere.
They also learned of the different techniques which are used, many of these techniques having been developed by amazonails to maximise ecological benefits, maximise community involvement and build for the UK and European climate.
The presentation to participants was followed by practical demonstrations and exercises in which they could try for themselves the basic techniques for building with strawbales.
A series of seminars and courses will cater for building industry professionals, architects and surveyors and for aspiring self-builders, for which strawbale is ideal.
These back up the range of courses run by amazonails as part of real builds all around the UK and in Europe.
For more details of the courses, which are updated frequently, see the amazonails website.
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