Insulated Rammed Earth Workshop Sept. 15-20th or 22-27 – 2014

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choose 1 of 2 dates:

September 22 – 27th ( 2 spaces left)

September 8-13th (Class full)

Location : Saltspring Island,BC Canada

Learn to build rammed earth from pros, this isn’t no ‘make a small sample and slideshow sales pitch’…it’s the real thing!

We will show you all you need to know to build walls with all the special techniques we normally use.

Whether you want to build for yourself,as a career or just learn for curiosity this gives you valuable experience that you need.

For those who are interested please look at this: rammed earth workshop

Contact us by email to get on the list.

Be sure to leave your phone # and the best time to reach you.

 

Quebec rammed earth house

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This beautiful house was built by our client Bautechnik just inside the Quebec border close to Ottawa,Ontario. We did the architectural design/plans, provided consulting and initial onsite crew training. It was very satisfying to see this finely finished  home manifest.

 

 

Rammed earth house south

Cold outside, cozy inside! That’s the way to go if you must live in Canada.

 

 

north entrance

North Entrance

 

 

South facing passive solar design

South facing passive solar design.

 

 

gable windows

Upstairs gable windows

 

 

bedroom windows

Interior view of gable windows from upstairs bedroom

 

 

rammed earth kitchen

Now that’s a kitchen worth cooking in!

 

 

living room

Open kitchen, living and dining room with a round window for style!

 

Thailand workshop pictures

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Here are some pictures from the Thailand workshop. It was another successful workshop with a  great group of people from all over the world.

 

forming

Forming

 

 

forms ready

Forms are ready

 

 

mixing

Mixing

 

 

wall layers

Layers

 

 

forming corner

Forming corner

 

 

making wall

Making wall

 

 

window infill

Window infill

 

April Workshop pictures

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We just completed another successful workshop. It was a great group of people from far and wide. We were fortunate enough to have perfect weather too.

 

making end panel

Making an end panel

 

 

levelling end panel

Leveling the end panel

 

 

placing pylwood

Placing the plywood

 

 

shovelling

Shoveling into the form-work

 

 

ramming with pneumatic tamper

Ramming with a pneumatic tamper

 

 

end panels

Putting up end panels for the second wall

 

 

more ramming

More ramming

 

 

sunflower formwork

Form-work for the sunflower impression

 

 

sunflower

Rammed earth sunflower

 

 

rammed earth workshop

Rammed earth workshop class of spring 2013

 

April 2013 – Insulated Rammed Earth Workshop

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April 29 – May 11 (optional April 24-27 if you want to learn to do the concrete foundation)

Learn to build rammed earth from pros, this isn’t no ‘make a small sample and slideshow sales pitch’…it’s the real thing!

We will show you all you need to know to build walls with all the special techniques we normally use.

Whether you want to build for yourself,as a career or just learn for curiosity this gives you valuable experience that you need.

For those who are interested please look at this: rammed earth workshop

Contact us by email to get on the list.

Be sure to leave your phone # and the best time to reach you.