Brilliant video, super informative, congratulations John, a genuinely inspiring project !! For an additional 6% or so construction cost, when you consider all the benefits and also the energy savings, adopting passive haus construction really is a no brainer.

Love your videos guys, thanks so much for providing such detailed technical and installation information. Very inspiring for a future owner-builder.

Hay is what is used in some animal feed, straw is the leftover byproduct that no animal eats. Besides some usage as a roughage an animal can starve to death eating it as it has almost no nutritional content. I'm sure most people consider it the same thing and he mentions its hay. I'm sure its just a slip of the tongue by the house owner but I thought it's important to point this out.

I learned something new at every point he made.

First Rate! Real Class! Well done! Mate!

Great video👍 looks like straw bale construction has matured! There is a lot of good info in this video and I hope to share some of it with my students who are learning about sustainability. It’s a shame that main stream construction is still a good decade behind other western countries in building science. We need to learn about the’ the house as a system’, which is shown in this video. Congrats to John for making the effort to produce this.

gorgeous!

that bench top is amazing!

Thanks for sharing such detailed information. I am about to build a passivhaus in Spain and I am glad to see that I picked some common components and solutions. I have the feeling that many architects and passivhaus professionals keep that information for themselves in order to get as much profit as possible. However I think that is possible to share solutions for free and still get even more profit this way.

Great video and wonderful haus..

Thank you very much.

Cows don’t eat straw. They eat hay and alfalfa. Straw is the left over stalks from wheat.

Some really great systems, thanks for sharing. I wish your dog well. It's great when animals survive cancer.

Hi. Very informative video! Can you share the name of the "completely sealed treatment plant"? I'd like to look that up. Thanks!

Literally a house made of straw....🤣🤣🤣 👍👍

STRAW: Bedding. HAY: Food

No air/oxygen in contact with the straw. Very well done. Never let any contact, or it'll burn.

When water does find its way to the strawbale will it rot?

With the exponential increase in wood construction materials in 2021/2022, I'd be curious if the 6% premium would still be present? I imagine this would now be a far less expensive way to build than a conventional house. He mentioned $500kAUD. That would be about $370kUS. I've been quoted $350/sqft for a conventional, (not premium) standard build.

Did I misunderstand what he said about the price? Did he say the total build was $25,000?