Michael Burchert

@michaelburchert.bsky.social

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🇪🇺 Educator, Speaker, Builder, Activist. Regenerative construction. That #strawhouse guy. Fixing mistakes @ built environment. Independent #Bauwende construction revolution advocacy, english & german word salad, enjoy! https://linktr.ee/michaelburchert

Young architects checking their first rammed earth wall
Another annoyed cat leaving the sun chair
Cat on a sun chair looking smug in front of flowers.
Reichskriegsflagge (indirect Nazi symbol) visible from the street
a small demo piece of straw insulation, that comes in large mats
One of the few photographs of the Pavillon de l'Esprit nouveau construction site in 1925 kept by Le Corbusier (FLC L2-13-43-001). Two workers handle a Solomite façade panel made of compressed straw. #strawbuilding. Straw or other natural fibers help to maintain a good indoor climate by insulation against heat and cold
Straw bales put in front of masonry as an energy efficiency retrofitting measure and carbon storage
Earth (unfired clay) brick masonry before plaster
View on a wheat field from a cargo bike with kid in the bak
Pile of sand on a meadow that has an ancient forest under the surface and is a CO2 source at the moment due to being drained for intensive animal farming practices
Abstract The European Union aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent by 2030 relative to 1990 and achieve climate neutrality by 2050. Yet, translating these targets into pathways for buildings and construction is challenging across diverse national contexts. We model building stocks for the twenty-seven Member States of the European Union and evaluate 4096 life cycle emissions scenarios, considering national capacities. Here we show that, over 2020–2050, achieving these targets would require avoiding 8.53 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, approximately ten years of emissions at 2020 levels. Mostly relying on improving energy efficiency and material production would exceed national capacities by 2.72-billion-ton, 32 percent of the required reduction. A combined approach that also reduces per capita space demand, applies circularity measures, and uses bio‑based materials could achieve an additional 2.19 billion tons within national capacities. For each country, we identify the strategies that maximize projected reductions to inform policy design.
old half timbered house house with earth infill and new windows, behind is a straw bale insulation. bike parked at the facade
Childcare run with a cargobike through a dirt track
Fully loaded straw bale trailer
huge wooden box with planet and star logo in a farage next to an old tractor
Bunch of plant based building tech. Engineered timber parts on display for retrofitting. Bottom piece is a straw panel cube
Young carpenters learn straw building in a vocational school, Biwena.de workshop. Mock up of a wall.
Collage, Büroturm der abgerissen wird
White egg plant, onions, zucchini on an oak bowl, beans nearby
Stable area with former low roof line, brickwork in rough shape. Straw bale ibsulation on the outside, raised roof, unplastered straw waits for plaster
Straw insulation sample on a outdoor patio with concreteand a rust stain, indicating a reinforcement failure in the background
Wheat harvest time, straw is left on the firld ready for pick up, corn and wind turbines surround the field
Michael looking serious in front of a straw panel
2 shelter dogs on the beach
Straw insulation
Haus ohne Verschattung mit den falschen Materialien gebaut. Fenster mit Alufolie von innen notdürftig verschattet. Klinaanlagen draußen sprechen Bände über die Sommerperformane im inneren. Draußen herrscht auch Hitze durch die Ziegel.
Grain field in harvest time, wet morning
Electrified cargo bike in front of grain field surrounded by trees and bushes. Wheat ready for harvest for bread and straw houses
Reed over straw panels ready for plaster, window reveals with hints at airtighness detailing.
Bamboo cut off pieces
Corn field at 2/3rd of it's final height, blocking the view.
Grain field around 1 week before harvest
Barley close up
workers erecting straw panels on an exisiting building
Late mitigation of bad planning, wibdow shaded from the inside with aluminium foil. 2 AC units cool the house with huge unshaded thermal mass from the brick work. No trees around. Just a lot of embodied carbon.
Die stoffliche Nutzung von Biomasse bietet zahlreiche Möglichkeiten zur Reduktion der Umweltwirkungen. Sie kann aber nur im Rahmen der Umnutzung bestehender Biomassenutzungen erfolgen, da zusätzlich nutzbare Biomasse nicht zur Verfügung steht (mit Ausnahme vielleicht der Strohpotenziale oder Biomassen aus neuen Renaturierungsflächen). Insbesondere die THG-Bilanzen zeigen, dass die Substitution von heute genutzten, nicht biogenen Werkstoffen erhebliche Umweltentlastung ermöglicht. Dabei ist aber zu beachten, dass diese Entlastungen in Zukunftsbilanzen verringern, da die Substitute wie Zement und Stahl auch in Zukunft mit geringeren Emissionen produziert werden (müssen). Die stoffliche Nutzung in langlebigen Produkten hat dagegen nicht nur bilanztechnische, sondern auch inhärente Vorteile: mit dem Speichern von biogenem Kohlenstoff sind hier Senken möglich, in Grenzen zwar, die aber gegenüber anderen Nutzungen (wie der energetischen) deutlich zum Vorteil führen.
Es wird somit angenommen, dass das nachhaltig verfügbare Strohpotenzial von 11,1 Mio. t im Jahr 2045 ► bei BEPASO in fortschrittlichen Biokraftstoff und ► bei KIS-2030/LFS-3 als Chemierohstoff verarbeitet werden.
Chart shows histroic emissions of different german sectors and projections that show planned emissions and the actual goals to limit the climate crisis. Germany is a notorious underachiever.
Grafik die zeigt, welchen Wert für die Klimaneutralität Materialentscheidungen haben. Die abnehmende Wirkung der Maßnahmen wird durch den Trichter symbolisiert. Schnell-nachwachsende wie Stroh, Hanf, Miscanthus sind das was PV, Windenergie und Suffizienz, Effizienz (also nicht gebrauchte Energie) für die Energiewende bedeuten. Ähnlich ist es auch mit den mineralischen, herkömmlichen Materialien zu sehen, sie sind hierbei das Äquivalent von übergangstechnologien wie Gaskraftwerke und andere fossile Techniken. Aus dem französichen übersetzt. Originalgrafik von Guillaume Meunier.
google search brings up social media profiles with different (random) profile pics, one is from Mamdani walking in a suit.
Vintage bsky graphic
Field after wheat harvest, straw drying in heaps. Around one third of the straw stalk is still standing, including roots. They will remain on the field.
Walking dead touches person
fossil gastropoda (?) from the miocene period 15 million years ago, in clay
jumbo straw bales on a truck in harvest season
foto of a sign showing that the fossils in the clay pit are from the miocene
people finding sea shell fossils in clay
People in an inflatable boat, with dinosaur swimming help.
Biobased walls waiting on a trailer
Gtassland with cut grass drying for industrial animal feed. Oak tree shadows in the morning sun. Former wetland. Massive CO2 storage under the surface, that is a CO2 source at the moment. Must be turned into wetland again, which could still allow a wide range of products to be harvested.
Straw ready for pick up and baling
Ramned earth ceiling elements in the making
Curting a straw drywall panel with a circular saw
Map of straw buildings across Europe, a lot of them clustered in France.
People learning to prefabricate straw panels at a biwena.de workshop. Stack of straw bales in the back ground.
Grain field with grass/ wild flower patch
Still in growth reed grass vs barley with short to medium stalks.
Fence with photovoltaic panels