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- Light Earth Construction Project - Research project to study the suitability of Light Earth Construction for the UK. Includes an introduction to Light Earth Construction.
- Earth Building Research Forum - Site supported by the Faculty of Design, Architecture, and Building at the University of Technology, Sydney to investigate material properties and constructional aspects of earthbuilding. Contains research articles, web links, and a publication list relating to earth construction.
- Rammed Earth - Contains a description of the construction of a rammed earth house in Australia. Includes photos, a tongue-in-cheek F.A.Q., and links to other sites.
- Terra Firma Earth Building Company - Designs and builds rammed earth homes in New Zealand, and provides rammed earth consultation services. Site contains project photos and construction options.
- Auroville Earth Institute - Research and development group based in southern India that provides training, reference materials and photographs for constructing earthen buildings.
- Adobe Builder News - Adobe building information portal site. Producers of the Earthbuilders Encyclopedia CD-ROM, a 300-page reference of earth construction. Also has information about the Southwest Solar Adobe School, building codes, and a general introduction to earth structures.
- Rammed Earth Works - Information on PISÉ, a rammed earth construction technique developed by David Easton.
- Earth Building Foundation, The - A non-profit organization that provides information on adobe and rammed earth construction techniques.
- Roger's Rammed Earth - Photos and details of rammed earth building in Australia. Site includes an FAQ and links to other rammed earth builders in Australia.
- Home Sweet Earth Home - Custom builder and designer of earth-sheltered and underground homes.
Wikipedia Articles
- Earth lodge - An earth lodge is a semi-subterranean building covered partially or completely with earth, best known from the Native American cultures of the Great Plains and Eastern Woodlands. Most earth lodges are circular in construction with a dome-like roof, often with a central or slightly offset smoke hole at the apex of the dome.
- Rammed earth - Rammed earth construction, also known as pisé de terre or simply pisé, is an age-old building method that has seen a revival in recent years as people seek low-impact building materials and natural building methods. Traditionally, rammed earth buildings are common in arid regions where wood is in ...
- Rice-hull bagwall construction - Rice-hull bagwall construction is a system of building, with results aesthetically similar to the use of earthbag or cob construction, in which woven polypropylene bags (or tubes) are tightly filled with raw rice-hulls, and these are stacked up, layer upon layer, with strands of four-pronged barbed wire between, within a surrounding "cage" composed of mats of welded or woven steel mesh (remesh or "poultry wire") ...
- Post church - A post church is a church building which predates the stave churches and differ in that the corner posts do not reside on a sill but instead have posts dug into the earth. Posts are the vertical, roof-bearing timbers that were placed in the excavated post holes type of construction is often believed to be an intermediate form between a palisade construction and a stave construction.
- Doomsday device - A doomsday device is a hypothetical construction — usually a weapon — which could destroy all life on the Earth, or destroy the Earth itself (bringing "doomsday", a term used for the end of planet Earth).