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🇪🇺 Educator, Speaker, Builder, Activist. Regenerative construction 🌳🌾🥦♻️. Fixing mistakes and bad habits in the built environment. Independent #Bauwende construction revolution advocacy, english & german word salad, enjoy! https://linktr.ee/michaelburchert

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 6d

Now they are finally calculating life cycle emissions in construction, but are still ignoring the consequences of these figures.

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · Sep 30

The 1st #strawhouse in Europe was renovated after ~100 years. I asked the cncp-feuillette.fr about problems with the renovation for a lecture:
"We didn't need to carry out any major renovations, just plastering and limewash paint, because it was in very good condition."

Straw house lime plastered covered in wild wine.

Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 3h

I once calculated on a napkin that we could upgrade approximately 50 billion square meters with the global straw amount. In passive house quality. Just with what already exists. Every year.
Picture: www.zimmerei-gruenspecht.de

Straw-timber module with window and door openings, prefabricated in a carpentry shop before, craned in place on construction site.

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 7h

Fun fact here is that most businesses are far ahead of the stuff that politicians think they are able to, transition-wise.

Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 7h

Remember that there are 2.2 Million people working in construction (+materials) related fields in Germany and most are currently NOT part of any solution to the real problems we face.

Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 8h

German government still thinks it can boost construction #Bauturbo without changing its approach to building #Bauwende. What WE will continue is land speculation, high rents, sprawl, = drastic climate change, species extinction, frustration = MAGA. Thx for nothing.

www.bundestag.de/dokumente/te...

Deutscher Bundestag - Bundestag verabschiedet den „Bau-Turbo“

Mit den Stimmen von CDU/CSU und SPD hat der Bundestag am Donnerstag, 9. Oktober 2025, den Gesetzentwurf der Koalitionsfraktionen zur Beschleunigung des Wohnungsbaus und zur Wohnraumsicherung...

www.bundestag.de

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 8h

waah!

Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 8h

Enjoy.

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 9h

You should find this dissertation from Benjamin Krick interesting, if you are going the jumbo bale route see Atelier Werner Schmidt strawbuilding.eu/examination-...

Examination of straw bales and straw bale constructions with regard to their application for energy saving construction with particular reference to the Load bearing construction, DE | ESBA

Straw Bale Building is said to be a promising way of building both under ecological and economical aspects. But its spread in Germany is slowed down by a lack of knowledge. This PhD thesis wants to ma...

strawbuilding.eu

Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 9h

It's all about the details...

Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 9h

Will give you a link later.

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 9h

In Germany we use straw usly not load bearing so we want a density of 85-115kg/m3 with +10% installed. Typically ~100kg/m3.
Load bearing you need more raw density >>130kg/m3 . Since the window frames float you want to reach end compression via roof weight (or straps) e.g. to close the gap.

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 10h

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · Jan 19

More big straw bale construction, have a nice bath inside the wall. #strawhouse #strawbuilding
bechter.eu/strohhaus/1e...

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 10h

Being an adult in a climate crisis #humansofbluesky #regenerative
Architect: Michael Reichegger
Foto:Samuel Holzner
www.architekturgemeinschaft15.it/portfolio/ha...

People stacking up jumbo straw bales as a load-bearing straw passive house. Window and door frames are installed 'floating' before final compression.

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 10h

And it isn't concrete, metal or brick, wohoo.

| Andrea Pasquato | @andpas.bsky.social · 10h

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From Saudi Arabia to Uzbekistan: AlMusalla Pavilion Reinstalled for the Inaugural Bukhara Biennial 2025

The Diriyah Biennale Foundation’s AlMusalla Prize-winning project by EAST Architecture Studio has been reinstalled in Uzbekistan for the Bukhara Biennial 2025.

www.archdaily.com

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 21h

Scary season for business as usual construction officially started. #strawbuilding

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 1d

No, I am not small.
CO2 storage.

Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 1d

Now I know why this is called "Leaf Pavillon".

Inside a Bulding with big, B I G timbers.

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Greifswald Mire Centre @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social · 1d

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 1d

There is still a tendency to add even more climate-damaging materials to buildings that have already caused significant climate damage through their construction materials, operation and design.

afasia archzine @afasiaarq.bsky.social · 1d

#ATAMA ift.tt/BJaGq0D | posted by afasia | daily entries on contemporary art and architecture #afasiaarchzine #afasiaarq |

#architecture #arquitectura #design

Balenmagazijn – UCO Site . Gent ATAMA The redevelopment of the UCO site, a former…

Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 1d

Ice is bad in many ways today.

Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 1d

This filter for trump.

a man in a straitjacket is surrounded by police

ALT: a man in a straitjacket is surrounded by police

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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 2d

Oil & gas profits were much higher than in previous years: $916 billion for listed firms worldwide.

That was a huge windfall for shareholders: U.S. beneficiaries held claims to $301bn—one third of the listed total.

For comparison, total 2022 U.S. low-carbon energy investment was $266 billion. 3/

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

"The US, which has positioned itself as a major fossil fuel exporter, sold $80B in oil and gas abroad through July, the last month with data available. China exported $120B in green technology over the same period."

Like the man said, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. 🌬️

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 1d

This is a very, very sick system and it's working against us all. I am somewhat decoupled from this by electrification, production (PV) and demand reduction (insulation etc), but this underlying mech is washing up the worst fossil puppets and profiteurs into governments at the moment.

Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 2d

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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