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Video: The BaleHaus

Craig White of White Design and ModCell – one of the firms behind the BaleHaus – explains the difference in ethos between traditional straw bale construction and the semi-industrialised panelised technology used by ModCell.

The BaleHaus has been constructed at Bath University by the university's department of Architecture and Civil Engineering. Under the guidance of the BRE Centre for Innovative Construction Materials (also based at Bath University), it is undergoing a string of tests, the results of some of which are surprising.

As well as hearing about the cost of the BaleHaus, its flexibility of design and Modcell's future predictions for the system, we learn how U-values, air tightness and thermal transmittance compare to the PassivHaus standard.