Posts Tagged ‘vancouver’

Amphitheatre walls @ UBC – Building the test walls + project outline

Posted by admin on December 17th, 2009 under Amphitheatre Walls @ UBC Tags: , , , , ,  •  No Comments

This is the start of a fantastic project to build the 2 largest rammed earth walls on the west coast of BC, Canada.  The project is located in the Botanical Garden at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada.  The big walls will form the stage backdrop and surround  about 1/2 of the [...]

Lighthouse Demonstration Wall

Posted by admin on December 3rd, 2009 under Uncatgorized Tags: , , , ,  •  No Comments

We were invited to build a demonstration wall inside the Lighthouse Sustainable Building Center in Vancouver. The idea was to build a small wall as a display to educate and show people an example of rammed earth. We built a wall that was 4′ high and 4′ long due to space constraints, people just need [...]