Builders tend to think of resilience in terms of designing and constructing buildings that will stand the test of time. But bending the arc toward a world full of healthy, ecologically responsible buildings is a long game, and we need resilient people and resilient organizations for our work to grow in scope and scale.| Natural Building Alliance
Keynote: Kritika Kharbanda, Henning Larsen Architects – “Scaling Up Material Innovation”| Natural Building Alliance
Keynote: David Arkin & Anni Tilt “Local and Resilient: Bio-Based Building in High Risk Fire Zones”| Natural Building Alliance
Dual Keynote: “Beyond Resilience: Opportunities for Healing and Abundance”| Natural Building Alliance
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Rocky Mountain Natural Building Conference in Bozeman Features Bio-Based Building Expertise| Natural Building Alliance
Help Community Rebuilds’ ‘Farm Team’ Get to Bozeman After Federal Cuts Campaign to sponsor participants at the 2025 Rocky Mountain Natural Building Conference, Sept. 18-20 For more than a decade, the Moab-based nonprofit Community Rebuilds has been building better builders—immersive internships that pair affordable-housing projects with hands-on education in straw-clay, hemp-lime, and other carbon-smart techniques. […]| Natural Building Alliance
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The Natural Building Alliance represents a welcoming community of natural builders that values diversity in background, education, skill, talent, and ideas. We recognize that there can be many visible and invisible barriers to participation in any kind of professional development conference. These can include physical barriers, like location, transportation, or accessibility of an event, social & cultural barriers, like gender, racial or religious biases, representing minority communities, ...| Natural Building Alliance
The Natural Building Alliance is now seeking presentation and workshop proposals for our upcoming Rocky Mountain Natural Building Conference in Bozeman, MT Sept. 18- 20, 2025 | Natural Building Alliance
Remembering Matts Myhrman 1938-2024 Matts Mhyrman, 86, Tucson-based geologist and natural builder who helped reintroduce America to the straw building movement, died Oct. 15, 2024.With his late wife, Judy Knox, Mhyrman researched and taught about the straw-bale building method, perfected in the late 1800s in the Sandhills of north-central Nebraska, where trees were scarce and […]| Natural Building Alliance
Plasters, or renders, are the skin coverings or durable coatings to a wall or structure and in many cases can be applied on the interior and exterior. The job or function of a plaster is to help a wall or structure resist weathering, decay, and everyday wear and tear. Along with providing protection, they can also provide texture, wrap-around continuity, and aesthetic appeal for a wall or ceiling.| Natural Building Alliance
Timber framing is a traditional building practice that creates the skeleton framework of a structure by connecting and fastening the ends of both large and small wooden members with wooden joinery. Joinery consists of carving or fitting two pieces of timber together with the connection being secured and fastened with a wooden pin or peg. A primary method of joinery is mortise-and-tenon, which is the hole or recess cut of one wooden member receiving the corresponding projection of the other wo...| Natural Building Alliance
Hempcrete is a bio-composite building material that is created by coating and mixing particles of hemp hurd (also known as shiv – the inner woody core of a hemp plant) with water and lime and then allowing the materials to dry and harden into a natural insulation material. Although builders can use clay as a binder in a hempcrete mix, hempcrete users generally prefer lime, as it can enable the dried mixture to resist wetness, mold, and decay. With these features, hempcrete is often referred...| Natural Building Alliance
