Abernyte Primary School Extension

Abernyte, United Kingdom, Europe

Completed · Education · Straw Bale School · Temperate · 2016

A primary school extension built with load-bearing straw bale walls — the first UK school extension of this type — achieving very low embodied carbon and an R-value exceeding standard building regulations through a bio-based material that is locally grown and carbon-sequestering.

Innovation highlights

• load-bearing straw bale wall construction
• first UK school to use straw bale as primary structural walling
• bio-based carbon sequestration in building fabric
• thermal mass and insulation combined in a single agricultural waste material

Client / Developer

Perth and Kinross Council

Architect

Loader Monteith

Engineer

Harley Haddow

Type

Straw Bale School

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