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“House building gets back down to earth” article

November 29, 2011

Luke Mahony

There is a lot of earth building going on out there, so it is good to see some exposure in Melbourne’s Herald Sun. It is the story of a Monbulk builder Nathan Schroder constructing a rammed earth house in a fire prone area.

“It feels a whole lot more natural,” he said. “Two-thirds of the world’s population live in an earth dwelling but in the West we keep inventing all these new ways of building walls. This is a simple way of building and something feels really good about it.”

Read the full article by clicking here.

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