Straw Blocks Systems B.V. is an innovative company that has developed a mobile production and processing system for the construction of houses and other buildings with straw as raw material. The use of straw makes sustainable, ecological, flexible and affordable building possible. Straw Blocks Systems builds innovatively, modern รกnd efficiently. Straw Blocks Systems has been active with the development and construction of production machines for modern straw building for a few years now. The now fully tested machines make the processing and postprocessing of rough straw bales possible. The final product is a range of profiled blocks (LEGO, but then of pressed straw) with a multiplicity of forms and sizes. Because of this, every desirable building can be realized without any postprocessing of the straw blocks. The realization of tight, flat walls of pure straw is possible without complicated processes or additions. The production is easy and fast, because the raw material in the form of straw bales is largely available all around the world. By transforming the (rough) straw bales into profiled blocks, the elements for frontages, floors, roofs and interior walls can be made on location. These are applicable in both new and existing buildings. The qualitatively high and dimensionally stable prefab blocks are in every desirable form realizable, for example straight, round and curved for i.a. dome shaped roofs. Straw Blocks Systems develops light, modular flexible concepts, constructions, buildings that are altogether composed of prefab components, concepts that do not have or require a minimal need for a foundation and are also earthquake-proof. Straw Blocks Systems can accompany this process from the first initiative until it is ready to use. For further building, a light wooden frame needs to be used as a basis for the different prefab elements that are composed of profiled blocks whereby we use the basis material straw to serve as much as possible as 'co-bearer' through hydraulic preweighting. There are unprecedented applications possible by choosing straw as light and flexible basis material when it comes to design in already existing and new buildings. The prefab walls can be finished optionally with wood, loam, chalk or a transparent coating or something else, in order for the pressed straw parts to be visible and receive a decorative function. Straw is a by(rest)product from worldwide grain cultivation and receives a qualitatively high application by using it as a building material. Straw has wonderful isolation characteristics (energy/noise) as a 'green' building material. The grain cultivation provides hereby in qualitatively high nourishment and sustainable building materials. Furthermore, it is affordable as a building material and with demolition, the ecological processing does not meet any problem because it can be recycled as fertilizer and as an improver of the soil structure. It is a unique concept for compostable, collapsable and, if desired, portable houses and buildings. According to desire, these buildings can have a short or long life. This form of innovative, modern and efficient ecological building is combined with the automation and robotizing of the production process. This is in line with our goal of making affordable living possible through this. A 'warm' home with straw as basis! Straw Blocks Systems processes the profiled pretreated dimensionally stable blocks in elements for the frontage, floor, roof and interior walls and all of the elements are hydraulically preweighted, which results in a qualitatively high final product that needs a minimum of material and work during its final processing. Our elements contain a light frame of wood, whereby the sizing and placement of the posts are dependent on the expected load
and choices concerning the finishing off. The above-mentioned pretreated and pressed straw blocks are being processed in our frontage elements. Implementation: the standard (working) width is a multiple of 35 cm and our frontage elements are therefore 105 cm (straw), the stature onestoreyhigh (270 cm) or otherwise. The elements are both in curved and straight implementation available. The pretreated dimensionally stable profiled blocks are processed under the same conditions as our floor and roof elements. Implementation: the standard (working) width is 70 cm (straw), the length is possible until 5,7 m1. Naturally, the width needs to be adjusted to the application of l-beams, dependent on the applicated sheet thickness of the l-beam. The elements are available both curved and straight. There are elements with a wall thickness of 20 cm for interior and/or exterior walls. These are perfectly finished elements with a light wooden border. Implementation: onestoreyhigh or otherwise, with a working width of 75,5 cm. The elements are available both curved and straight. Special implementations of walls and roofs can be requested.