[Cob] California and "Green Building Code" (Damon Howell)

[Dean Sherwin]

At 03:00 PM 9/25/2009, you wrote:
>Although officials do seem to be
>slightly interested in Jasper GA, they get cold feet and always
>revert back to the book when it comes to signing off on something.
>So, if cob was in there, with loose regulations, the problem would go
>away. What's England do? They have building codes, right? Let's adopt
>theirs.

I haven't been in touch with cob scene in UK for a few years but I 
know that when new building regulations came out with stricter energy 
requirements, there was a problem with getting cob buildings to 
comply.  so for one thing people have looked at alternative layering 
or construction methods to incorporate insulation.
It's only comparitively recently that it has been possible to build 
cob structures at all, in the land of their origin  and my birth, 
Devon.  British building regs used to be more onerous than here but 
maybe the pendulum has swung somewhat.
As I said, get hold of the adobe chapter and show that to code officials.


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