You must have heard that everything old is new again. Well, that is just what is happening with rammed earth construction. This method of building dating back thousands of years ago is undercover in ...

Architectural Digest editorial staff were not involved with the creation of this content. Materials tell stories about people, memories, and places. But when placed in the hands of an architect who ...

Engineers in Australia have developed an innovative building material that is strong, cost-effective, and more environmentally friendly than standard concrete. This new material has a much smaller ...

Rammed earth technology, where waste products such as fly ash, are used as sustainable building materials can also be used to make decorative feature walls like this one at UBC Okanagan. Researchers ...

A team from RMIT University, Australia, combined the durability of rammed earth—a construction technique used to make walls from compressed soil within a lattice of sticks or bamboo—with the ...

Australia's construction sector may be on the brink of a quiet revolution, one built from soil, water, and something most people throw away. Engineers at RMIT University have developed a new building ...

under your feet, and it doesn’t come with all the carbon baggage that other [building] materials come with,” says studio founder Jonathan Tuckey. As a building technique, rammed earth—which combines ...

Construction site (London, UK). Image by Tim Sandle. Engineers in Australia (RMIT University) have developed a new building material with about one-quarter of concrete’s carbon footprint, while ...

Join us to learn the technique of rammed earth and plaster by intervening and transforming an abandoned tobacco house next to the Zaza River, in the central region of the island of Cuba. This is a ...