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Building
With Earth:
- Whether constructing walls
from mud, cob, or rammed earth, or utilising earth berms and
green roofs to provide shelter, the earth provides a variety
of opportunities to use the most natural of building materials.
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- Green roofs can give a high
thermal mass as well as controlling rainwater run off more effectively
and greening built surfaces.
Earth Sheltered
Buildings:
- British
Earth Sheltering Association
-a non-profit making organisation aiming to encourage the design
and construction of Earth Sheltered Buildings in the UK.
- Earth Hands and Houses -a non-profit organisation set up in 1997 with
the vision to enable people to build their own shelter through
a program of demonstration projects, workshops, presentations,
and other services.
- Earth
House -Earth House
is the hub from which to explore anything related to earth sheltered
homes or underground living.
- The Underground House -Helen and Phil Reddy's earth sheltered house
in Cumbria, featured on grand Designs in 2003.
Rammed Earth:
- Earth Structures
-UK based firm specialising in stabilised rammed earth construction.
- In-situ -rammed earth projects from specialist
Roland Keeble.
- Rammed Earth Works -US site from David Easton in California
Cob and
mud:
- Back to Earth
-based in Devon, specialises in the new-build, repair and restoration
of cob buildings throughout the South West of England.
- Cob Block Company
-dried, pre-shrunk blocks ready to lay and render with lime mortar,
manufactured in Wellington Somerset.
- Cob
in Cornwall -website
of Adam Weismann and Katy Bryce, ecologically concious builders
based in Helston and specialising in cob construction.
- Earthed -a group of artists and builders who
create structures specialising in cob, roundpole timber frame,
lime and stonework. They undertake private and funded projects,
run educational workshops as well as renovation and repair.
- JJ
Sharpe -Devon based
specialist suppliers and contractors for the repair and conservation
of old buildings, and the longest established producers of lime
products in Devon.
See also Green
Roofs
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