A woman in Faro, Yukon, says her plan to build her dream home has been crushed by the Yukon Government’s adopted updates to the National Building Code.

Sanni Schmidt has lived in Faro for 30 years. For the past six she has been preparing her property to accommodate a one-storey, 900-square-foot straw bale home.

“I put a lot of money in,” she explained.

“I pushed some dirt. I built a retaining wall. I actually started the foundation.”

Schmidt also hired an Alberta-based architecture firm, Battle Lake Design Group, to design the concept.

Straw-bale construction is a building method that uses bales of straw as structural supports and building insulation. It’s considered a sustainable method for building, because straw is a renewable resource and has high insulation value.

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