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Health Centre, Camp Kawartha. Ready for plaster! Or ready for masking & taping, then plaster. #strawbalehouse #strawbalebuilding #strawbaleconstruction #carbonstorage #lowembodiedcarbon #naturalbuilding

Congrats Straworks Inc. on a great project.

Health Centre, Camp Kawartha. It’s a juggle/ struggle to make a big changes on the fly but when these boulders surfaced during the excavation, I couldn’t let th...em go. Thankfully, our P. Eng Tim Krahn is amenable to my crazy ideas and over the phone, the plan changed from bearing our posts on concrete piers to anchoring them to boulders on a rubble trench foundation. Thank you Tim! You rock! #strawbalehouse #strawbalebuilding #strawbaleconstruction #carbonstorage #lowembodiedcarbon #naturalbuilding #rubbletrench #rubbletrenchfoundation See more

Health Centre, Camp Kawartha. FOUNDATION: Nexcem is the only ICF that isn’t made of foam or polystyrene (high carbon emissions). It’s made here in Ontario from... waste wood and oops, cement-something we are trying to avoid. But, some of carbon emissions from the cement are are offset by the wood that sequestered carbon from the atmosphere when it was growing. It’s tough to make perfect choices at the foundation stage but at least with Nexcem there’s a trade off. AND it’s super to work with - you can cut it with a circular saw (I love that and typically do most of the cutting), you can pin it together with a nail gun, various thicknesses of Roxul inserts are available from R-14 to R-28, and the blocks are light enough that I can lift them but heavy enough that they stack to form solid walls that don’t need much bracing before pouring. At Camp Kawartha, the main floor of the Health Centre will sit on a walkout basement constructed of Nexcem and straw bale walls. The two walls that back into the hill are Nexcem and the front two are straw bale. That way, we are only using heavy cement based materials and concrete where it counts, and switching to straw bale walls (higher R-value and a lower carbon footprint) as soon as we are out of the dirt and away from the hill. This time used Mike’s Concrete Pumping out of Buckhorn, to fill the forms with a 20 MPA 50:50 slag and cement mix supplied by LaFarge. #strawbalehouse #strawbalebuilding #strawbaleconstruction #carbonstorage #lowembodiedcarbon #naturalbuilding

Health Centre, Camp Kawartha. RUBBLE TRENCH FOUNDATION The mining and burning of limestone to make cement is energy intensive. A ton of cement equals nearly a ...ton of carbon emissions. This project starts avoiding materials like cement, at the foundation stage and carries that all the way through. A rubble trench foundation, a bed of compacted stone, replaces a conventional concrete frost wall. Next a walkout basement constructed of Nexcem ICF on the hill sides and straw bale walls on the walkout sides, will sit on top. #strawbalehouse #strawbalebuilding #strawbaleconstruction #carbonstorage #lowembodiedcarbon #naturalbuilding #rubbletrenchfoundation See more

I really enjoyed working on this amazing project with these great people and businesses. It is always exciting to learn different building practices.

Embodied carbon caps make it into municipal policy! So excited to partner with Douro-Dummer Twp and Sustainable Peterborough on a new policy initiative that wil...l reward home builders in the municipality for meeting an embodied carbon threshold. This will drive down GHG emissions from new home construction by as much as 50 tonnes per home! Big thanks to Endeavour Centre- The Sustainable Building School and Green Up for all the support to make this possible. #ptbo

Happy Earth Day 2020! Keep smiling and stay safe!

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We are very thankful that Overstock Liquidation in Lakefield trusted Dancey2 to redo the floors in their store. If you’re in the Lakefield area, please go in and check them out. Amazing prices and selection - with 3 new truckloads every week! If you’re in need of epoxy, call today!

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Thank you to Mark Westlake, Derek McCrossan and Todd Kuipers for organizing this event again this year. Thank you to J.J. Stewart Chrysler as well for supporting this event year after year. We are happy to be apart of this great charity event. https://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com//8288733-firstli/

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