Information on alternative building materials, building techniques, and building processes. Including strawbale, adobe, rammed earth, cordwood, log, post & beam, stone, concrete domes, earth ships and other techniques.
This day's lots of people are interested in buying steel buildings.All-steel buildings are constructed quickly, and experienced erectors can set up a pre-engineered steel building in a third less time that traditional building projects .
Owner constructed homes can save dollars if you have the skills and knowledge to complete the process. Follow the progress as one owner completes their log home. Building a dream home must be a well planned project and is not for the faint of heart.
Partial Torus of America are externally insulated thin shelled concrete homes of a unique shape. With proper doors and windows, they provide near absolute proctection for natural disasters.
construction photos and more of an off-grid strawbale house in Nevada. . .with both passive and active solar heating, solar hot water and electricity. .and a wind generator to boot
Hybrid Adobe is a revolutionary building material used to create low-cost insulated homes, sculptures, domes, garden walls, and more. Hybrid Adobe combines recycled paper with earth, sand, and a binder to create a sustainable, inexpensive, strong, fibered material that can be poured, sprayed, or sculpted, to form blocks, logs, panels, walls, and an infinite
A how-to page telling how we built our own thin-shell concrete dome house (Monolithic Dome) which is tornado-proof, fireproof, and takes advantage of passive solar energy.
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