LSU Civil Engineering Professor Hai "Thomas" Lin. Courtesy Louisiana State University College of Engineering Earthen buildings are nothing new—in fact, they’re one of the earliest forms of ...
Imagine putting some dirt from your yard into a machine and watching it come out the other end as a dense block that can be used to construct a home. This isn’t a fantasy — one San Antonio-based ...
Australia’s construction sector may be on the brink of a quiet revolution, one built from soil, water, and something most ...
under your feet, and it doesn’t come with all the carbon baggage that other [building] materials come with,” says studio founder Jonathan Tuckey. As a building technique, rammed earth—which combines ...
BROOKINGS, S.D. - An Australian architectural professor visited South Dakota State University in late April to advise on how to preserve a 90-year-old rammed earth experimental building on campus.
As part of our Building with Cob series, we've put together an overview of cob and other traditional earthen building materials used around the world, including adobe and rammed earth. Building with ...
Louise Cooke is a Trustee of Earth Building UK and Ireland - a charity promoting the understanding of earth as a building material. The epicentre was high in the Atlas Mountains. Entire villages have ...