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Designing with Rammed Earth: An Adaptation of an Ancient Technology for a Greener Modern World
Construction tour of the Festival of Arts façade improvement project - Earth Rammed Wall portion of the project.
Learning Objectives:
An overview of current building trends and practices relating to chemically treated and consumptive building materials.
A brief history of rammed earth from an ancient building method to today's engineered product.
Basic overview of the various types of rammed earth construction and when/how to incorporate them into your buildings and landscapes. Designing with rammed earth and gaining an understanding the environmental, health, safety and welfare benefits.
Detailing, value engineered design and specifying rammed earth
Presenter:Brad Mimlitz, REW Builders, Inc.
Date: April 16, 2015
Time: 3:15 PM check-in; Tour begins at 3:30.
All attendees need to bring a hard hat, glasses, vest, and closed toed shoes
Learning Unit: 1 HSW
Location:
Festival of Arts
650 Laguna Canyon Road
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
(Parking available across the street)
Cost:
$10 Members
$20 Non-Members
Bradley O. Mimlitz, principal architect and president of Park City Architecture (PcA) and founder of Rammed Earth Wall Builders, llc. Bradley has been a regional proponent and leader in alternative construction and sustainable building for many years; and so we say he is a "natural" at sustainable architecture. It wasn't until being introduced to rammed earth building in early 2008 that the he and his design team felt that that a lasting solution to many issues plaguing the construction industry today need more than good design alone can cure. It requires a hands-on, design-build approach to providing healthy, strong and useful buildings which encompass the climatic conditions, specific amenities and topography of the site as well as the needs of its users, and be as well planned as it is constructed. Unique to the rammed earth industry, Bradley is actively involved in every stage of a project from consulting to architects and engineers at the planning and design stages, preliminary sourcing and testing of the soils material through the day-to-day rammed earth construction of the project.
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650 Laguna Canyon Road
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
United States
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