What You Need To Know To
Make Earthen Dwelling Structures!

• Building Codes
  1. North Central Texas Council of Governments standardized Building Codes
  2. New Mexico Building Code for Adobe & Rammed Earth Structures
  3. Building Codes in general dealing with alternative building modes
  4. Stories about Building Codes around the USA

• Publications
  1. Adobe Builder
  2. Papercrete
  3. Patrick Newberry- Earth bag house construction site
  4. Twin Earthbag house domes
  5. 240 GREAT Canadian-written articles on homebuilding-all aspects
  6. Earth Plasters
  7. 'SAWMENT' (Sawdust, Sand and Cement)
  8. Wood Chip and Clay walls
  9. Green Building Materials
  10. The Masonry Heater Association of North America
  11. Straw Bale Building
  12. Culvert house
  13. National Lime Association-Has many low cost booklets on technical aspects of lime
  14. Lime Online Italy-Has many good articles in English
  15. Natural Cement- all about a unique European limestone with amazing properties of fast hardening
  16. Articles on Pozzolans (clay binders for lime)
      1. National Parks Service
      2. also
  17. Cob Code Project
  18. Ianto Evans' Cob Cottage Company
  19. Jan's COB & Natural building
  20. Development Center for Appropriate Technology
  21. Down to Earth Building Bee home page
  22. Earthfriendly and Self-Sufficient Architecture
  23. EcoLiving Center
  24. History of Cob
  25. Joiners Quarterly and Fox Maple School of Traditional Building
  26. Natural Building Resources
  27. Papercrete News
  28. Questions and Answers about Cob
  29. Strawbale & Natural Building Site
  30. Sustainable by Design