Posts Tagged ‘building’

We are now onto building the second rammed earth wall in the UBC botanical garden. This wall is 55 feet long, curved and fades into the grade. Thanks to Katie who works at the garden for providing a few of the pictures scattered through our posts on the amphitheatre. The footing for wall 2 is [...]

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 [...]