

Practical environmentalism.
We will help you to understand and balance the environmental, social, and financial costs of your project through negotiation and compromise among contending groups, interests, values, and levels of government. Our goal is to help you to design and build a building which best balances your needs and those of your family, your community, and the environment.
Real world experience.
Our real world personal experience with social assistance and social housing, rental housing (both as tenants and as landlords,) and home ownership (as owner renovators and as owner builders) combined with our professional experience with mid- to large- scale commercial construction and renovation, construction and demolition waste diversion and our work with a number of not-for-profit and charitable organization give us a solid foundation to work from while helping you with your project.
Construction
We offer a full range of straw bale construction services from pre-building your structural components to general contracting your entire project. Our team includes the most experiences plaster mix-master in Canada and the most experienced plaster crew in Canada with over 100 buildings of total experience. We have the skills, equipment, and experience to take on your job no matter how big or how small.
Consulting
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Design
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Education
Our employees have a wide range of skills and experiences and can provide the real world, experience based educational experience your students, employees, or community members are looking for. We have many years of experience dealing with eager straw bale enthusiasts and ardent straw bale skeptics. We can sit down with your companie's board of directors, your town council, your student body, or the members of your community over a coffee or in a gymnasium and provide an interactive learning experience.
Training
Our experienced instructors have taught hundreds of people how to build with straw bales. We tailor our workshops to the skill and experience of the participants. We can teach beginners how to drive nails and stack straw bales, we can teach construction industry professionals the best methods for joining straw bale construction and conventional structural elements, or we can teach building officials what to look for when inspecting straw bale buildings. We can work with you to bring a straw bale awareness and education program to your company or to your community.