The Conservation of Earth Structures

Available online at www.international.icomos.org

Building with Earth

Building with Earth, a handbook – John Norton

I am trying to get hold of this book

Earth Construction Handbook

An excellent book, distilling over 25 years of experience at Kassel University in earth building techniques.

Terra Britannica

A celebration of earthen structures in Great Britain and Ireland, edited by John Hurd, president of ICOMOS UK Earth Structures Committee, and with contributions from a large number of authors.

Buildings of Earth and Straw

Bruce King is a practicing engineer in California, and this book is an excellent guide to the structural engineering of earth buildings. A good introduction to structures and forces is given, and then applied to earth and to straw buildings.

Conservation of Clay and Chalk buildings

Gordon Pearson is Senior Quantity Surveyor in the Historic Buildings section at Hampshire County Council. He has vast experience in the conservation of the chalk and earth buildings found in that area. Specific repair techniques are outlined practical advice is given for practitioners of earthen conservation.

The Rammed Earth House

A comprehensive guide on construction of rammed earth houses, based on twenty years experience in the industry. David Easton runs his own company Rammed Earth Works based in Napa California

Earth Structures: a code of practice

A code of practice developed for new build, based on research by the author and work done at Newcastle University UK around 1995

Adobe and Rammed Earth Buildings: Design and Construction

A design and construction guide based around the construction of the McHenry house. Published in 1983, but still relevant. A very good chapter on the structural engineering of rammed earth.

Earth Construction: A Comprehensive Guide

This is considered by many to be the definitive guide to earth building. Published in 1997 it catalogues the existing literature and provides guidance on construction and conservation techniques.