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Animal Material

Animal Material
About:

Animal

• Fur, hair, Wool, Feather
  • Thermal Conductivity Insulation
• Horse hair
  • Reinforced plaster
• Horse manure
  • Used in render/plaster mix
  • Landscape compost
• Sewage
  • Lightweight Expanded Sewage Aggregate (LESA)
• Skin
  • Cow Leather
  • Fish Leather
• Bone
  • Connecting Toggle
  • Aggregate
  • Take extra care to ensure all brain and nerve tissue is removed
• Bone and connective tissue
  • Glue
• Egg
  • Used in natural paints
• Milk
  • Used in natural paint

Shell

• Damp Proof Layer (DPL)
  • Loose shells in layer (prevents capillary action upwards)
  • Vapour open (no barrier to moisture vapour or ground gas)
  • Trickle layer (enables water to trickle downwards)
  • Will not prevent rising ground water table reaching ground floor
• Lime/cement replacement
  • (energy intensive, less than cement)
• • Plaster/Render

Not coral

• even if destroyed by bad fishing techniques
• even if destroyed by warming oceans

© GBE NGS ASWS BrianMurphy
aka BrianSpecMan
1st December 2017 – 27th December 2017

Animal Material
Images:

Sheep’s Wool

© GBE NGS ASWS BrianMurphy
aka BrianSpecMan
27th December 2017

Animal Material
See Also:

GBE Materials

• Primitive Bio-based Materials (Materials)
• Primitive Animal (Materials) G#16486
• Primitive Bio-based Material Properties (Materials) G#16471 (this page)

GBE Methods of Construction

• Primitive Materials Future Building Offsite Manufacture (OSM) G#16467

GBE Survey

• Information needs Primitive materials (Survey) G#16394

GBE Jargon Buster

• Primitive (Jargon Buster) G#16326

GBE Q&A

• Primitive Materials Future Building (Q+A) G#16244

GBE Webinar

• Primitive Materials Future Building (Webinar) G#16202

© GBE NGS ASWS BrianMurphy
aka BrianSpecMan
27th December 2017