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Hi, the basement is a non-hydrostatic piled retention system. It uses bored piers, a capping beam and shotcrete infill walls as the earth retention system.

Thank you. The red/orange tanks are sewer pump tanks. The grey tank is a rainwater tank for use on the project, such as irrigating gardens.

Hi Johannes, Precast concrete uses upwards of 20% cement, washed sand (a high-embodied energy material) and crushed rock (ditto). It requires substantial infrastructure including delivery trucks of the raw materials to the batching plant, the actual batching plant, delivery of the concrete to the precast site in massive mobile barrel mixers and often concrete pumps which need to be driven to and from the site. In contrast, the rammed earth we used, uses 7% cement and locally sourced hill granite (from a quarry 8km away from the depot). The rammed earth is built with a fraction of the infrastructure of a concrete batching plant, uses minimal fuel (25 litres per day for the bobcat and air compressor) and has no reinforcing steel unlike concrete.

@@kapitolgroup Thank you for the answer. It is still not rammed earth! Rammed earth contains 0% cement! This is called stabilized rammed earth period. With 7% cement you lose the best properties of clay, indoor climate regulation, moisture absorption, reusability, etc......! Please give it the right name. Rammed earth is misleading for what you are doing. Best regards

This person is correct. Without clay it's not even stabilized rammed earth. However incorrect on the 7% eliminating clays moisture control and breathability. Clay does not bind to cement so it maintains moisture control but at a "slightly" lower rate.

Hi Peter, we used Peri Duo Panels.

Thank you.