Rammed Earth - Natural Building
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Interested in alternative approaches to building? On Salt Spring Island in British Columbia SIREwall hosts two-day introduction to rammed earth building courses. SIRE subscribes to the Stabilized Insulated Raw Earth method of constructing rammed earth walls, and their site provides a lot of good info on it.
To learn more about rammed earth, and the PISE approach to constructing rammed earth walls, visit the site of the pre-eminent advocate for this approach — Stanford-educated inventor, author, teacher, and builder David Easton. There’s a resurgence happening today, “but modern applications demand higher standards and greater care in construction than in the past,” according to Easton. His site offers publications, workshops, videos, links and an overview of FACTS on rammed earth. Many landscaping projects and adobe-style homes in Napa, as well as Arizona and other desert areas have been constructed via this eco-friendly way. (photo, courtesy of rammedearthworks.com)
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