A Building Code With Room for Innovation

Rob Harris Jeff Whitney, left, the Grand County, Utah building inspector, and Eric Plourde, the instructor overseeing construction of a straw bale home in Moab. Jeff Whitney, the head building inspector in Grand County, Utah came by the straw bale construction site in Moab where my wife and I are volunteering . He needed to inspect the flashing and some other details before we applied our first coat of plaster to the exposed bales. Straw bale construction is not recognized in the Utah state building code, but because of Mr. Whitney, Grand County is the only place in Utah where it is explicitly allowed. In fact, the county’s straw bale construction provisions are right on his office’s home page . “Other jurisdictions around the state used to say, “hell no, “ said Mr. Whitney, who wears a cowboy hat and white mustache, “But now they are starting to call us.” Section 104.11 i...

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