Big Bad Wolf Take Notice: Engineering A Straw Panel Passive House??

In this, second part of the three part series from the Feb. 29th meeting of the Bay Area Building Science Collaborative Meeting(www.BABSC.org), Structural Engineer Anthony Dente of Verdant Engineering, talks about the structural design of the Cereza Passive House, including the EcoCocon panels, the Rammed Earth Panels and the integration for these unique materials into the structural system of the house in earthquake country. This project is the first time that EcoCocon panels have been used in the US under the earthquake requirements of the building code and only the 3 time they have been used in the United States at all.

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