More on Codes
The DCAT Working Paper: Straw
Bale Construction and the Building Codes
is being expanded to include adopted and pending building
codes and legislation, and a list of code organizations. Also
includes list of code officials available to talk to other (your)
code official about straw-bale construction. For purchase or more
information contact: DCAT,
The Development Center for Appropriate Technology,PO Box 41144,
Tucson, AZ 85717,
(520) 624-6628,
e-mail: strawnet@aol.com; comprehensive
website
Austin, TX
http://www.azstarnet.com/~dcat/Austin.htm
Boulder, CO
http://www.azstarnet.com/~dcat/Boulder.htm#Baled Straw Structures
California
AB1314 (Mandate for S-B Codes in Cities and Counties) from:
Calif. Dept. of Housing & Community Dev., Div. of Codes &
Standards, PO Box 1407,
Sacramento, CA 95812-1407, (916) 445-9471.
Online at these URLs:
http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/codes/castraw.htm
http://www.snowcrest.net/smb/CALIFORNIA.htm, or
http://www.azstarnet.com/~dcat/CAcode.htm, or
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=hsc&group=18001-19000&
file=18944.30-18944.34 (part one, along with)
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=hsc&group=18001-19000&
file=18944.35 (part two, along with)
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=hsc&group=18001-19000&file=18944.40
(part three)
Cortez CO
http://woodsprite.com/cortez-codes.html
Nevada
Code mandate:
AB171, Straw Bale Guidelines from State Legislature, Rm 101, Legislative
Bldg., 401 S. Carson St., Carson City, NV 89710 ...
New Mexico S-B Code: New
Mexico CID, 725 Saint Michaels Dr., Santa Fe, NM 87504, (505)
827-7030
http://www.state.nm.us/rld/rld_cid.html;
the text of this code is online at
http://www.earthbuilding.com/nm-straw-bale-code.html, http://www.azstarnet.com/~dcat/NMcode.htm
City of Tucson and Pima County Arizona
Building Code, Appendix Chapter 72, Straw Bale Structures from:
City of Tucson, 201 N. Stone, Tucson, AZ 85701
http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/codes/azstraw.htm, or
http://www.azstarnet.com/~dcat/Pimacode.htm
Thanks to The Last Straw and MJ Epko for this compilation