The straw-bale's popularize and utilization in the rural housing of Northwest of China

Along with the government's effort to build a resource-saving society and new socialist countryside, as a kind of sustainable ecological building material, the straw-bale is winning the favor of people‥ From the viewpoint of structural analysis, this paper introduces the utilization of straw-bale in rural housing. Associated to the sub-project “The study and demonstrate of techniques about ecological residents in well-being towns and villages of Northwest” of the Tenth Five-Year Critical Research project “Research and example of the key technology of rural residential house”, the text discusses the feasibility for straw-bale to be popularized in rural housing of Northwest of China, presents the guidance suggestions for rural ecological construction of housing in western country.