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Our Straw Bale Structural Wall System
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  • This is a one stop shop for:
  • Blueprints, Product, and Service.

  • Talk to your local building officials to determine what, if any, technical information or drawings the building officials will require.
  • In some cases, a printed copy of our specifications will be sufficient.
  • Frequently, floor plans and elevation drawings will be required.
  • There is a $350 fee for this package, refundable if an order is placed within six months
  • Our SIC Wall System (Straw-bale Integrated Columns) combine Structural Integrity, Shear Strength, Simplicity, and Affordability through a system of uniquely designed load bearing components.
  • The SIC Wall System consists of: Shear Corners, Shear Walls, and various sizes of Window and Door Bucks with vertical members designed as Posts. A horizontal beam sits on top of the posts and supports an engineered truss roof system.
  • Customers can chose to delete certain components, including windows, doors, roofing, etc., and buy those locally if they wanted to.
This is a one stop shop for:
  • Blueprints, Products, and Service.

  • Our wall system uses Straw-bales Integrated with Columns (SIC) “Kit” System utilizes a wood Post & Beam Structure to support a truss roof system.

  • The drawing package specifications, are designed to create a variety of floor plans.

  • Our kits use Straw Bales as an in-fill for Superior Insulation and Noise Suppression. 

  • Services range from planning, drawings, building and plastering your structure.

The blueprints include:
  • Cover sheet,
  • Index with General Notes,
  • W/D Schedules,
  • Exterior elevations,
  • Building Cross Sections,
  • Wall sections and plan,
  • Section details,
  • Floor Plan,
  • Electrical Layout,
  • Structural Notes, Details, and Plans,
  • Roof Plan,
  • Truss Details

We can provide a drawing package that will meet the requirements of most building departments.  This would include 3 sets of foundation plans, anchor bolt locations, floor plans, elevations, frame plans and details, sections and specifications. Occassionally, building officials will also require the set of structural drawings to bear an engineer's signature and stamp.  These are available from a Local engineer from your state and, for an additional cost, we can help you locate one.

  • Exterior Wall Materials∙
  • Sill seal, pressure treated sill plate, grade stamped 2x6, 2x4 doubled up  Rigid insulation 1 ½”
  • Structural supporting posts and shear walls, corners, columns and bucks
  • Horizontal Beam supporting the roof system, fire blocking at the top of the bale wall
  • All materials are hand selected, cut to precise dimensions, to reduce your construction waste.
  • Stucco ready building components, such as widow & door bucks and shear walls & columns
  • Prepped with moisture/air barriers, Galvanized Self furring lath and/or stucco netting,
  • Galvanized/Zinc casing bead, control joints, expansion joints, corner bead, weep screed etc…
  • Galvanized fasteners, brackets, post anchors, hurricane ties, framing angles, etc..
  • Loading information
  • Dead load: 2.5 psf  Live load: 20 psf
  • Snow load : 80 psf  Wind load 100 mph

Note: •  It is the customer's responsibility for the foundation, and to ensure that Building Codes are accurate. All permits and related fees are purchaser’s responsibility.
Note: • Exterior walls are 20” wide, outside sill plate bolts down to your foundation, and inside sill plate is anchored either to your choice of a decking and/or 4” concrete slab
NOTE: • Interior walls and partitions are non-load bearing walls and can be rearranged or removed.
Browse through our standard floor plans to get some ideas or to get more information on our Kits.



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"The walls of the building went up so fast, easier than I thought".

        Randy S.

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The property owner will be responsible for obtaining all required building permits and for verifying that the structure that is intended to be built is allowed and that all building and zoning codes will be met.
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SIC wall system layout enlarged for better view.
SIC wall system layout enlarged for better view.
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