Archive for the ‘Amphitheatre Walls @ UBC’ Category

Mixing and more mixing, filling up those forms takes a lot of material. Shovelling into the forms. More shovelling. We shoveled a lot on this wall, over 117,000 pounds of rammed earth mix! Rudy working the pneumatic tamper. Working late to finish the cap. Removing the forms and exposing the beautiful rammed earth! Clifton with [...]

The first wall to get formed up is the largest of the 2 walls, this wall is not only curved but sloped up on the top. We are forming what will become a huge rammed earth wall for the backdrop to the stage performance area, it is 80 feet long and averages around 6.5 feet [...]