Thank you for all the love on our last post! Since there are some new people on our page, we wanted to reintroduce ourselves. We are Building Integrity LLC, a Prefabricated Strawbale Panel company based out of Missouri and servicing the entire Mid-West! Building Integrity is owned and operated by five members with diverse backgrounds in design, natural building, construction, wellness, and agriculture. Motivated to create efficient and healthy structures that can be implemented at-scale to address the climate and housing crisis, we founded our LLC in 2024 and began participating in New Frameworks’ Seed Collaborative.
Whether you are a homeowner, architect, general contractor, or developer, reach out: we want to collaborate with you! Click the link in our bio to fill out a contact form and we will reach out!
#StrawbaleConstruction #SeedCollaborative #NaturalBuilding #StrawPanelRevolution #RegenerativeDesign #ClimateAction #LocalMaterials #CraftedWithCare #BuildTheFuture #SustainableHomes #StrawBaleBuilding #Sustainability
The newest edition of the Last Straw Journal is out now! This edition is about Fire and covers a range of topics and stories regarding bio-based materials and a warming climate. Our project in Nebraska is featured on page 23, discussing how our panels were specifically chosen for a client who prioritized fire resiliency in an increasingly high risk area for grass fires.
Click the link in our bio to check out the newest edition!
Tune in tonight for the Farm and Fiddle Show on KOPN 89.5FM (or online at KOPN.org) at 6pm CST. Host Adam Saunders (Building Integrity Co-Owner) is interviewing his wife, Adrienne Stolwyk (Architect and Building Integrity Co-Owner) about their collective involvement in strawbale construction!
On our story question box, leave us questions or topics you’d to see covered on the show!
Here is a preview of a video created by Bruce King and the BuildWell project titled Straw Building Today. We will be playing the full video at our Housing Hop stop!
Don forget to come see us! The Housing Hop is tomorrow, Sunday April 26th from 1-5pm. Building Integrity has two projects on the tour!
Monarch Architecture is pleased to co-sponsor the HOUSING HOP on Sunday, April 26th from 1pm – 5pm!
You can start the tour at one of three locations:
212 Hirth Ave – See 2 high-performance, straw-insulated structures designed by Monarch Architecture
102 E. Sexton Rd. – Visit a home renovated by Arise Dwellings
308 Oak St. – Walk through a prefabricated straw-insulated home by Building Integrity
Maps of all “hop stops” will be available at the starting locations. The tour will have around 10 stops featuring various examples of INNOVATIVE, INFILL, and AFFORDABLE housing in central Columbia, Missouri, including: a timber framed house, single-family attached structures, ADUs (accessory dwelling units), a church using their property for housing, a pocket neighborhood, new construction and renovations. The event is free and open to the public.
More information located in the link in our bio!
BI is proud to be featured in a Missourian article on April 14, 2026! The article shares information about BI's participation in an upcoming Housing Hop in Central Columbia on 4/26/26.
Come check out 3 straw-insulated projects on the Hop, as well as many other innovative, infill, and affordable housing solutions in the area!
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Building Integrity co-founder Virgil was proud to co-present at NESEA’s Building Energy Boston conference last month alongside Ace @acegonzmc from New Frameworks and Greg from Rare Forms!
We spoke about scaling resilient, socially responsible, and climate-restorative construction practices through cooperation and mutual aid rather than competition. We highlighted our emergent Seed Collaborative as a vehicle through which we are modeling this: A Straw Panel Producer’s Cooperative dedicated to sharing services, improvements, and consulting amongst one another, and lifting each other up as vetted straw panel producers!
We couldn’t be more excited to be a part of this, and are steadfast in our commitment to making healthy, high-performing and carbon-storing walls an option for your next project!
Please join us for our Housing Hop later this month showcasing innovative, infill, and affordable housing projects in Central Columbia!
April 26th, 2026
1:00pm - 5:00pm
We hope to see you there! 🏡
đź’ĄBoom! And now we have installed panels!
We used a Boom Truck to install these panels in a narrow neighborhood lot! đź’Ą
#naturalbuilding #strawbuilding #strawbaleconstruction
The panel design involves two “wythes” of framing. The exterior wythe bears the roof load. Because this project is 1-½ stories, the beams holding up the second floor connect to built-up columns on the interior wythe. These wythes are connected only at girts, which minimizes thermal bridging.
