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Green Home Building: Natural Building Techniques: Earthbag
Having been introduced to sandbag construction by the renowned Nader Khalili in 1993, the authors developed this "Flexible Form Rammed Earth Technique" over the last ... , low-impact building methods that are as natural as possible. They developed the "Flexible Form Rammed Earth Technique" of building affordably with earthbags and have taught the subject and ...
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Natural Building Colloquium
Flexible Form Rammed Earth," A term we now use that we feel best describes this construction method. "Flexible Form Rammed Earth (F.F.R.E.)" is a free-form version of rammed earth construction. Since the bags act as a flexible form ... hands-on construction techniques utilizing Flexible Form Rammed Earth architecture as an aid to creating affordable and earth-friendly housing. For more information, ...
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Suggest Reading
Earth Construction: A Comprehensive Guide. London: Intermediate Technology Publications. King, Bruce. 1996. Buildings of Earth and Straw: Structural Design for Rammed Earth and Straw-Bale Architecture. Sausalito, CA: Ecological Design Press (distributed by Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, VT). Wojciechowska, Paula. 2001. Building with Earth: A Guide to Flexible-Form ...
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Green Home Building: Using Natural Vernacular Materials
Earth: A Guide to Flexible-Form Earthbag Construction (Chelsea Green, 2002) which is the first book published on the emerging methods of earthbag building. Paulina has established a nonprofit trust, "Earth, ... . I have friends who built with rammed earth and their environment is miserable during winter, always fighting the fly-wheeling of energy in the earth structure. Can you shed any light ...
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