natural building

while this house incorporates something as far from natural as shipping containers, we also will incorporate techniques such as straw bale infill walls, natural plasters and some natural tree trunks as beams and support for the stair case. But, that will be next summer, when we start the job up again. The last thing that we did was return to the site in Dec. to get an inspection on the rough plumbing and the placement and welding of the containers so that we could get another 180 day stretch of time on our building permit. So now we are good till sometime in June. Really, the permit is good for 4 years, but they want to avoid having jobs abandoned, so they put the stipulation of building activity (needing an inspection), every 180 days. It doesn't make sense that anyone who has spent as much effort on the project as we have would abandon it, but that is the requirement.