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Next straw building practical workshops: Spring/Summer 2025
If you are interested in a workshop or course, please send an email to asbn@baubiologie.at

Tadelakt-Workshop in straw bale houses in Gnesau/Carinthia, AT: 23-27 June
Location: 9563 Gnesau, Gurk 21 (DE)
Workshop Maroccan Tadelakt as plinth render [INFO]
Start: Monday, 23 June, 12:00 (attention: date changed)
Registration: € 150/80 for students & unemployed) incl. accommodation and meals (double room; single room at extra charge), tour of the straw bale houses

Intro StrawHenge/Module construction (theory): July 14/15, 2025, start 12:00 p.m. Location: asbn, 3720 Ravelsbach, Baierdorf 6, Lower Austria (DE/EN)
Workshop introduction to straw bale construction (modules, StrawHenge), infill, calculation, costs of a StrawHenge straw bale house
StrawHenge/module construction (practice): July 16 – 19, 2025, start 12:00. You will learn how to prefabricate straw building modules yourself. Incl. timber construction, straw bale infill, plaster preparation. [INFO]. Registration: € 150/80 for students & unemployed, incl. accommodation and meals (in the straw bale house, shared room)

Intro StrawHenge/Module construction (theory): Aug 4/5,2025, start 12:00. Location: asbn, 3720 Ravelsbach, Baierdorf 6, Lower Austria (DE/EN)
Workshop introduction to straw bale construction (modules, StrawHenge), infill, calculation, costs of a StrawHenge straw bale house
StrawHenge/module construction (practice): Aug 6 – 9, 2025, start 12:00. You will learn how to prefabricate straw building modules yourself. Incl. timber construction, straw bale infill, plaster preparation. [INFO]. Registration: € 150/80 for students & unemployed. incl. accommodation and meals (in the straw bale house, shared room)

Preview Straw Construction Workshops: Autumn 2025, STEP 2026

Straw bale infill workshop: expected to take place from 6 to 10 September 2025
Location: Sistrans near Innsbruck in Tyrol, Austria (DE/EN), [INFO]. Straw bale infill workshop on site in roof and walls. Start: Sat 12:00, End: Wed 17:00
Registration: € 150/80 for students & unemployed, incl. accommodation and meals (shared room)

Plastering preparation workshop: expected to take place from 24 to 28 September 2025 [INFO]
Location: Sistrans near Innsbruck in Tyrol, Austria (DE/EN). Workshop Plaster Preparation (reed stucco, soft fibre boards, raw electrical wiring, installations, window insulation with hemp, start: Wed 12:00
Registration: € 150/80 for students & unemployed, incl. accommodation and meals (shared room)

Clay and lime plaster workshops: tentatively 30 Sept – 24 Oct 2025
Sistrans near Innsbruck in Tyrol, AT (DE/EN) [INFO]
30 Sept – 10 Oct: Clay and lime plasters, starts Tue 12:00: 21 – 24 Oct: Fine clay plaster, starts Tue 12:00, ends Fri 17:00: Registration for the entire period or 4-5 days possible
Registration: € 150/80 for students & unemployed, incl. accommodation and meals (shared room)

Preview: STEP Training in Portugal: 7 January – 10 March 2026
Location: Castro Marim, Quinta da Fornalha, Portugal (DE/EN)
STEP CERTIFIED training with practical experience, 8 weeks of training with 1 week of holiday in the Algarve/Portugal. [INFO]
If you are interested in a workshop or course, please send an email to asbn@baubiologie.at
You can also register your interest in advance and we will inform you as soon as there are more details about a project.
Pictures of the straw bale houses in Gnesau (StrawHenge, infill, clay/lime plaster), Austria, autumn 2024
Images of the TinyHouse Oliviera in Portugal, spring 2024/2025
Images of the straw bale house (CUT construction, load-bearing) in Kessel-Elk, NL, autumn 2023



Images of the StrawHenge roundhouse and straw bale dome in Prague, CZ, summer 2023



Images of the renovation of a farmhouse including a straw bale roof in Engelsdorf, Lower Austria, 2023
Click here to view the galleries of past workshops
And here you can see pictures of the virtual construction site in Ravelsbach
The virtual construction site is the winner of the Energy Globe Award Lower Austria 2015 (category EARTH)