Rammed earth presentation Glasgow

Scottish Geotechnical Group poster
Professor Peter Walker is giving a presentation at the Scottish Engineering Centre in Glasgow at 6:15 on Tuesday 11th March.
Structures out of the ground, modern rammed earth wall construction.
This should be a good presentation, I’d like to go, but unfortunately can’t because I’m going to Morocco to look at historic rammed earth [...]

Urine blocks

A project about making earth blocks using urine instead of water. I think this is probably a good idea, and I think it could go far.

Terra 2008 Conference programme

The programme for the Terra 2008 conference to held in Mali in February has finally been released.
Terra 2008 programme (pdf)

Unfortunately my abstracts were not accepted for the conference, which I found a little annoying, I don’t think the problem is the quality of the research. You will have to read my thesis and international [...]

Uni-Terra: Networking education in earthen building

Uni-Terra: Networking education in earthen building
An initiative by DVL,  bringing together many academic institutions interested in research and education in earthen building

Great Wall of MIT

Great Wall of MIT
A rammed earth wall constructed a MIT School of Architecture

Conferences

Previous conferences relating to rammed earth

Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions 2006
To be held in New Delhi November 2006
International meeting on Mediterranean Architectural Heritage
Earthen Architecture in Iran and Central Asia
A celebration of the life and work of Robert Byron, in his centerary year. To [...]

Sheffield Hallam University

Sheffield Hallam University
Dr Hall is based in the UK and working with Stephen Dobson of RAMTEC Pty Ltd. Dr Hall is looking at moisture ingress into earth walls, and recently featured on BBC television building a rammed earth structure. Dr Hall has recently moved to [...]

Plymouth University

Plymouth University
Dr Linda Watson is looking at the conservation of Earth Buildings, specifically in the South West of England. In 2000 Plymouth hosted Terra 2000, an international conference on the conservation and preservation of earthen architecture.

Bath University

Bath University
The Centre for Structural and Architectural Engineering at Bath University. Dr Peter Walker has recently completed at DTi project looking at the viability of Rammed Earth housing in the UK. Vasilios Maniatidis has just completed a review of Rammed [...]

Auroville Earth Centre

Auroville Earth Centre
Based at Auroshilpam in India, Auroville is the home to the UNESCO chair in Earthen Architecture, and is the BASIN network partner for South East Asia. Auroville hold courses in construction techniques and specialise in disaster resistant buildings.