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Each workshop will include instruction in designing and building with rammed earth, including technical data and supervised hands-on experience constructing a wall.
The curriculum will include:
- Forming a rammed earth wall with modular forms and embedded insulation
- Installing electrical outlet boxes and conduit
- Hanging OSHA-approved scaffolding from the forming system
- Comparing rammed earth reinforced with rebar versus post-tensioning rods
- Writing specifications for stabilized and water-resistant rammed earth
- Making test cylinders using ASTM standards
- Mixing, placing, tamping and stripping a rammed earth wall
- Designing headers, bondbeams and roof-attachments
Participants may bring half-full 5-gallon
buckets of any soil they might want to
use for building. This will be tamped
into regulation-formed cylinders for later
testing at soils labs in participant's
home towns.
I would just like to thank everybody for the great school and social event this past weekend. Everything was great. (I'm already missing Julie's breakfast burritos.) The unselfish sharing of your vast knowledge and the desire to teach others is incredible. I almost felt like family. Thanks again.
-Tim Engholm (Three Points, Arizona)
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Quentin Branch Residence - Rammed Earth
Construction
