EcoNest Workshops
The Backyard EcoNest Building Intensive Workshop:
May 6 - 17, 2024: Ashland, OR / Santa Cruz, CA
July 8-21, 2024: Ashland, OR / TBD
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The following are additional workshops that may be added to our schedule in the future. If you are interested in one, send us an email: robert@econest.com!
Timber Framing Intensive
For students with prior timber framing experience ready to take their timber framing to the next level of confidence and competency. This program is an excellent opportunity to work hand in hand with timber framing professionals to cut, assemble, and erect a modest timber frame.
PRIOR EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
You will learn :
Teamwork
Planning
Leadership skills
Tight Joinery
Safe Assembly
Crane Erecting
Duration 10 to 12 days.
Light Straw Clay Primer
From 4 weeks to 4 days. The straw clay walls for our 1200 sf home took 4 weeks to complete in 1990. The same project now takes us 4 days.
Come and learn from the company that introduced and revolutionized Light Straw Clay over three decades and wrote the textbook on how to design and build a LSC House. It’s fun!
You will learn the Five Divisions of LSC and more…
1. Production: slip formulation, mixing straw and clay
2. Delivery: safe/efficient handling, equipment, scaffold
3. Framing: the structural matrix framework
4. Forming: slip & full forms, attachment.
5. Filling: loading & tamping for strong/stable walls
6. Finishing: breathing plaster/wood finishes
7. Building Codes: understanding requirements and permitting.
8. Materials: estimating and sourcing
Duration 10 to 12 days.
